Green Infrastructure - News and Events

03 March 2023 - The role of landscape architects in any successful green infrastructure project is crucial. Working closely with ecologists, engineers and construction teams they ensure that ideas for sustainable and distinctive public spaces come to life.

07 February 2023 Alyson Hunter is the Garnock Connections Landscape Partnership Project Manager. That’s a huge undertaking as this is a far-reaching venture covering 28 distinct projects.

06 December 2022 - We recently spent time in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Community gardens meeting Kathryn Bailey, the garden coordinator, and finding out a little more about the project.

01 December 2022 Site visits by CIEEM and a reflection by Jim Jeffrey, Communications Officer with NatureScot’s Structural Funds team, on what the fund has achieved.

April 2022. Scotland’s Green Infrastructure Strategic Intervention (GISI) creates better places and enhances quality of life in some of Scotland’s most deprived areas.

6 April 2022 - A report, including case studies of wellbeing policies for the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Netherlands.

20 July 2021 - One of NatureScot’s ecologists, Abi Gardner, has been talking about working with a young artist as part of the Edinburgh’s Future Green Spaces Exhibition.

18 May 2021 - The creation of improved greenspaces and greener active travel routes are proving increasingly popular.

7 May 2021 - As we head into Mental Health Awareness Week how appropriate that this year’s theme is “Nature”, and that it is also Scotland’s Green Health Week.

25 March 2021 - Alt-Erlaa is a green vision, one that demonstrates so many good things you have to pinch yourself to realise it is in essence a housing estate, not a private paradise.