The Greater London Authority has just launched the London Green Infrastructure Framework (LGIF) and London’s first Local Nature Recovery Strategy. These are new, complimentary, spatial tools that provide a strategic evidence base to help transform planning, delivery and management of green and blue spaces and features in London.
The LGIF is an overarching framework that looks at all the different benefits green infrastructure (GI) provides, such as access to green and blue space, clean air, and urban cooling. The LNRS forms the ‘nature recovery’ layer of the LGIF, informing what actions are most needed for nature in London and where. The LNRS-specific documents and mapping provide important, more detailed information alongside this.
What is the LGIF?
The LGIF is a map-based tool that combines key London-wide data relevant to GI in one place in an interactive web-map to help you identify where and how to invest in new or improved GI to maximise its benefits for Londoners, nature and climate resilience. It provides an analysis of spatial data to identify where GI investment might best provide multi-functional benefits, identifies priority areas for creating new, or adapting existing GI and can help identify specific GI functions that it would be most beneficial to deliver in an area.
What is the LNRS?
The LNRS includes a written strategy and a map. Building on input from local organisations and Londoners, the LNRS identifies the parts of nature most in need of help to recover, and outlines the actions needed to improve them. It also maps opportunity areas where those measures could be implemented to help nature in London thrive.
How can they help you?
The LGIF and LNRS are shared tools to help everyone make London greener, more climate resilient and nature-rich. For example:
- A local authority planner could use the LGIF and LNRS to inform plan-making, assess development proposals and target GI investment to the areas of greatest need.
- A developer could use the LGIF and LNRS to design green and attractive developments that make the best use of land, improve nature, and gain support from local communities.
- A community group can find out about local opportunities for GI and nature recovery, design impactful projects and use the LGIF and LNRS as evidence to support funding applications.
- A GI practitioner can identify priorities for GI to deliver within a site or area, target investment and make a case for high-impact, well-designed GI.
- A landowner or manager could use the LGIF to inform land and site management and the LNRS to help them plan which nature actions to prioritise over the coming years.
LGIF and LNRS launch webinar
Find out more about the LNRS and LGIF and how you can use these new tools.
Date: Monday 23 March
Time: 11am – 12pm
If you have any issues registering, please contact LGIF@london.gov.uk
Nature Conservation Lewisham 