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Getting ideas and information about what can be done to
improve local open green spaces
BASIS
FOR A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF WHAT IS FEASIBLE WITHIN EACH
GREEN SPACE
The
Project Feasibility Information Sheets, which are
included here, were designed to allow local communities to
be systematic in their description and measurement of the
local potential for enhancing green spaces. These projects
are not intended to be the only ones that might be applied
to the Stocksbridge area; they have been selected because
they are considered appropriate and feasible in the local
context. The information used to draw up the information
sheets has been obtained from a number of local sources,
including:
- existing
user survey/community consultation results.
- existing
school consultations (i.e. Upper Don Heritage
Trails).
- research
into open space projects in other SRB areas (for
instance, the Manor and Castle area of Sheffield) via
literature, site visits and other media.
- ideas
drawn from the history and other features of the SRB5
area.
The
information sheet is split into five sections:
- project
summary
- economic
implications
- social
implications
- environmental
implications
- project
viability
Project
Summary
This
section describes each project, highlighting key features
and issues. The Project Summary has five
elements:
- A
project title, together with a project code that is used
as the reference code throughout the report.
- A
project summary describing the project and its
aims.
- Management
requirements from initiation, operation and maintenance
to foreseeable long-term management
implications.
- Project
location information including a quick reference for
Green Audit (small sites) and Ecological Survey Sites
(large), using ticks and crosses. A planning permission
quick reference using Yes, No, or a "?", where more
research is required. The remaining box in this section
is used to give further details about the site location,
naming specific sites.
- Project
links is an invaluable cross-reference to other
feasibility ideas, organisations and open space
management systems. The aim is to highlight where
feasibility ideas interlink, and thus draw on and support
each other.
Economic
Implications
There
are four sub-sections:
- Funding
- Set-up Costs, which describes the likely form of costs
incurred by implementing a project. Reference may be made
to possible sources of funding.
- Funding
- Running Costs, outlines the expected day to day costs
incurred in managing and maintaining a project. Reference
to specific sources of funding may be given.
- Employment
- gives an indication of the potential of a project to
create jobs for local people or contractors.
- Tourism
- states how it is hoped each project will attract and
encourage visitor to use open spaces in the
area.
Social
Implications
This
section describes how the local community will benefit and
be encouraged to become involved in open space management
and use.
- Community
Involvement - explains which parts and to what level the
local community could be involved in each
project.
- Schools
Involvement - outlines the potential for participation of
schools in a project.
- Recreational
Benefit - shows how users' leisure time experience will
be enhanced.
Environmental
Implications
This
section considers the environmental impact of each project,
from global to local and from human to wildlife
sustainability.
- Local
Agenda 21 - all organisations should be developing
systems that take into account the themes of LA21 to
ensure the planet retains the potential to support future
generations. This section outlines how these projects
will meet the aims of LA21.
- Wildlife
- explains the potential impacts on wildlife habitats of
a project, whether positive or negative.
Project
Viability
This
final section concentrates on the potential problems or
pitfalls associated with each project.
- Constraints
- focuses on those issues and problems that may prevent
or hinder the success of a project.
Quick reference estimate of the likely viability of each
project. The ease of implementation, management and
benefits accrued are compared with the constraints and
need for further research.
The
information given in each sheet is designed to raise the
major issues associated with that project. The information
is not exhaustive, however, and even projects given a
definite possibility will need further consideration before
implementation.
Continued
research and encouragement of the local community to
participate in the project decision-making process will
provide new and better ideas for the future. Locally
developed ideas will be more likely to engender support,
ownership and respect if they originate from the local
community.
Click
to view some useful links to related information:
Making
Places
and
Project
for public places
CABE
Children's
play in housing areas
Click
here to email for help from Steel Valley Project staff
or you
can write to the address at the bottom of this
page.
Your involvement is important, no
matter how small,
as only local people can really change things for themselves
- ideas imposed from outside are often too general to be of
use at the local level.
Stocksbridge
SRB5 Greenspace Audit undertaken by Jim Flanagan for
Sheffield
Wildlife Trust
- see their Community
Action Handbook
- full of good ideas for your local site
SEARCH
THIS WEBSITE
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Information
sheets to enable the feasibility of the Stocksbridge
community undertaking local projects
AREA
WIDE
STRATEGIES
A1-Litter
and
fly-tipping
A2-Dog
mess
A3-Health
and walks
A4-Amenity
facilities
A5-Cycle
routes
A6-Stewards
COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT
SCHEMES
C1-Tools
C2-Open
Space Book
C3-Parish
maps
C4-Grants
C5-Composting
C6-Wildlife
scheme
C7-Young
persons
C8-Adopt
spaces
COUNTRYSIDE
MANAGEMENT
CM1-Heather
CM2-Hedges
CM3-Hedge
laying
CM4-Woodland
CM5-Dry
stone walls
CM6-Scrub/bracken
CM7-Grassland/hay
CM8-Coppicing
CM9-Pollarding
ENHANCING
SUSTAINABILITY
E1-Wind
E2-Green
burials
E3-Recycling
E4-Grey
water
LANDSCAPE
IMPROVEMENTS
L1-Meadows
L2-Bulb
planting
L3-Wall
climbers
L4-Tree
and shrub
L5-Coarse
grasses
L6-Edible
plants
L7-Grave
flowers
L8-Herb
spirals
L9-Lavender
hedges
L10-Pocket
parks
L11-Ponds
L12-School
grounds
L13-Streams
L14-Biofuel
L15-Butterflies
L16-Orchards
RECREATION
R1-View
points
R2-Paddling
R3-Play
R4-Youth
facilities
R5-Camp
site
R6-Barbecue
SELF-HELP
SCHEMES
S1-LETS
scheme
S2-Mutual
aid
TRAILS
T1-Sustainability
T2-Heritage
T3-Nature
T4-Art
VISITOR
CENTRES
AND
ATTRACTIONS
V1-Woodland
crafts
V2-Mazes
V3-History
garden
V4-Open
air theatre
V5-Equestrian
V6-Nature
reserve
V7-Community
gardens
V8-Community
farm
V9-Upper
Don
Tourism
&
Business
Centre
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