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Urban and built environment priorities and potential measures

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Urban and built environment priorities and potential measures

The Strategy aims to give nature central role in shaping the county’s built-up environments, with wildlife benefiting from a network of connected green, blue and grey spaces, which also provide nature-based solutions to the environmental challenges
of urban areas.

Urban Landscape

Click on the priorities below to view the associated potential measures. You can download all the urban priorities and measures in the document at the end of the page. Where a number appears missing, this is because it is associated with a wider measures. Wider measures are not a formal element of the Strategy and are therefore not included in the list below – however they are included in the downloadable measures documents.

Priority URB1 – Address habitat fragmentation in the urban and built environment, ensuring urban species can freely move about and developed areas and infrastructure does not impede passage.
There are no potential measures for this priority, which is supported by wider measures. Wider measures are applicable in the case of this priority, owing to the large areas of urban environments where the measures could be applied, delivering wildlife benefits across all our developed landscapes.
Priority URB2 – Deliver benefits for wildlife and support its recovery and growth in the urban environment through green space, building and land management.
Potential measure URB2.1 Manage areas of urban green space to maximise nature provision in urban areas, providing a greater complexity of habitats, with year-round shelter, forage and food.

Potential measure URB2.2 Naturalise urban river corridors by removing river obstacles where appropriate and replacing hard river banks with native buffer verges and riverside trees.

Potential measure URB2.3 Target urban tree establishment to areas of low canopy cover.
Priority URB3 – Safeguard and increase the extent of green space, trees and hedgerows within urban areas to not only provide more habitat for wildlife but also to deliver other benefits, including urban cooling, air and noise pollution regulation and surface water management.
There are no potential measures for this priority, which is supported by wider measures. Wider measures are applicable in the case of this priority, owing to the large areas of urban environments where the measures could be applied, delivering nature-based solutions across all our developed landscapes.