1. Nick Grayson – Climate Change & Sustainability Manager
Birmingham - The Total Environment to an Edible City?
Birmingham City University Seminar April 23rd 2012
NIA award – confirmation of 30 years/ ‘Endless Village’
We know where we are……..
We know where we want to get to….
And how……
Total Picture
Total Environment
Total Solution

2. BUCCANEER; Birmingham Urban Climate Change with Neighbourhood Estimates of Environmental Risk;

3. EVIDENCE POLICY DELIVERY
6. Implementation – A National Case Study
Key Partners
Climate Risk
Water & Flood Risk
Green Infrastructure
Public Health
Biodiversity
The LEP & Business
Community &Resilience
Sustainable Transport
Planning
EVIDENCE
POLICY
The 9 piece jigsaw – GIA Partnership
DELIVERY

4. Task GIA Delivery Group
Principle
Output & Policy
Task GIA Delivery Group
The City’s Productive Land
Endorse the Birmingham Forest
Extract timber sustainably from City woodlands and river corridors
Plant new woodlands
To facilitate community food growing leading to healthy lifestyles and cohesive communities.
Promote allotments
Facilitate community food growing, orchards, and woodlands
Embed biomass production
The City’s Greenways
Adopt A Walkable City
Connect pedestrian & cycle routes to greenways.
Establish quiet roads in neighbourhoods
Solve broken links in networks
Greenway networks
“Quiet Roads”
Permissive access rights
The City’s Ecosystem
Ecosystem Evaluation of Birmingham’s GI and Trees
To provide a Core Strategy ecosystems services evidence base for all GI and trees.
To implement a Birmingham Tree Bond fund.
Co-ordinate the GI CIL Implementation Plan.
Integrate all biodiversity priorities.
Explore new funding mechanisms & joint partnerships
Biodiversity mapping
The City’s Blue Infrastructure
Adopt a Blue Corridor Policy
Facilitate the adoption of a Blue Corridor Policy; with zero floodplain tolerance.
Integrate SUDs and flood management solutions.; and wetland creation
Implement a programme of water quality & habitat enhancements
Enhance and the wider Blue network.
SuDS & flood & water management
Enhance water quality & riparian habitat
The City’s Green Infrastructure
Adopt a Birmingham Index for GI
Introduce a sustainable tree planting policy.
Protect & enhance GI through the Birmingham Index
Introduce a GI Index Questionnaire for all development.
Sustainable tree planting policy
Introduce a Birmingham GI Index
Habitat permeability
An Adapted City
Adopt GI Solutions to the Urban Heat Island
Map all the climate change risks.
Devise future-proofing techniques & policies across all partners citywide.
Maximise adaptation opportunities: greening reduces the urban heat island effect, reduce flood risk & protect habitat and heritage.
Green roofs & walls
Protection of natural & built heritage
Integrate public health concerns
A Healthy City
Adopt Natural Health Improvement Zones (NHIZ)
Link research with delivery, by creating NHIZ’s across the city.
Embed the 4 ‘Wells’; well being, well managed, well used and used well.
Research and promote all links between health and environment, create accessible green space for all and apply natural solutions to health concerns.
Introduce sustainable land management principles.
‘Be Active’ neighbourhoods
Childhood development

5. Birmingham as National Pilot
A Private Sector / Public Sector
Joint Plan/ vision for Birmingham

6. 1. The City’s Productive Land – The Birmingham Forest

7. 2. The City’s Greenways – UK’s First Walkable City

8. 5. The City’s Green Infrastructure
A Birmingham Index….?

9. 6. An Adapted City

10. 7. A Healthy City
1952 smog = 4,075 excess deaths – Clean Air Act;
COMEAP’s 2008 Report 4,267 predicted deaths, PM10s;
JSNA
Public Health Outcomes Framework
Planning Checklist