Trees in the Townscape – Design Principles“Metanoia”

• Nick Grayson• Climate Change &

Sustainability Manager

• Birmingham City Council

• September 26th 2012

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Sustainability Forum – June 11th 2012

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RESILIENT CITIES

"We the mayors and governors of the world's leading cities. ask you to recognise that the future of our globe will be won or lost in the cities of the world."

Copenhagen Climate Change communiqué, December 2009

•BRE Guide

•Masdar

•Biomimicry 3.8

“We will put natural capital at the centre of economic thinking; and at the heart of the way we measure economic progress.”

NATURAL CAPITAL COMMITTEE

4. Make Tree Friendly Places:

Create places where tree species can thrive and deliver their full range of benefits without causing harmful nuisance.

5. Pick the Right Trees:

Select and use trees appropriate to their context.

6. Seek Multiple Benefits:

Harvest the full range of benefits trees can deliver as part of a local green infrastructure system, focusing on key local aspirations.

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BUCCANEER – Birmingham Urban Climate Change Adaptation Neighborhood Estimates of Environmental Risk

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Birmingham’s Green Commission

Carbon Road Map

Birmingham’s Energy Strategy 2050

•CO2 Reduction target of 60%; DECC review as Low Carbon Pioneer City

•Birmingham Energy Savers £1.5bn investment retrofit Green Deal programme

•District Generation with Heat networks

& Transport

•Central Government – greening the grid targets

•Sustainable Development Policy

•– SUNN, Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2012

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Energy Map for Birmingham

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Lancet July 2012

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SOILS:

•Tree Nursery - ‘Dunneman Seedbed’;

•Earth – 80% of global biomass; only 10% spp catalogued;

•France – last ten years = yield drops – 30 year period organic content 4% to 1.5%; (INRA, 2,200 soil sample locations);

•Woodland soil- one handful:-

•10 billion bacteria;

•1 million yeasts;

•200,000 fungi;

•10,000 protazoasWellcome Image Awards 2012

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Two experimental ‘eco-scrapers’

To house as many trees as people!

One ha of woodland per tower, over 27 floors;

700 trees, 5,000 shrubs, 11,000 plants;

at 5% extra construction costs.

Produce oxygen, filter dust, dampen noise, improving health & well being.

Stefano Boeri Architetti

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“Bosco Verticale” - Milan.

Values Issues Solutions

Appendix 2. – Constituency Concept PlansTrees in the Townscape – Right Tree, Right Place

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Integrated District Plans

Principle Output & Policy

An Adapted CityPlan for effects of the Urban Heat Island

•Green roofs & walls•Street Canyons Research•Trees for cooling & thermal insulation

The City’s Blue Network

Develop a Blue Corridor &’Green Streets’ Policy

•Enhance and the wider Blue network.•SuDS & flood & water management•Enhance water quality & riparian habitat

A Healthy City

Adopt Natural Health Improvement Zones (NHIZ)

•Introduce sustainable land management principles.•‘Be Active’ neighbourhoods•Childhood development

The City’s Productive

Landscapes

Endorse the Birmingham Forest & Tree Bond

•Promote allotments•Facilitate community food growing, orchards, and woodlands •Embed biomass production

The City’s Greenways

Adopt A Walkable City

•Greenway networks•“Quiet Roads”•Permissive access rights

The City’s Ecosystem

Develop an Ecosystem City Model

•Ecosystem Evaluation of Birmingham’s GI and Trees•Explore new funding mechanisms & joint partnerships•Biodiversity mapping

The City’s Green Living Spaces

Adopt Integrated Area Plans

•Protection of natural & built heritage•Integrate public health concerns•Sustainable tree planting policy•Introduce a Birmingham GI Index

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Birmingham Development Plan2013

Your Green and Healthy City (SPD)2013

Birmingham’s Health & Well Being Strategy2013

Birmingham’sGreen Living Spaces Plan2012

Embraces the Birmingham Forest

Sustainable Development Policy

Social determinants of health;Mitigation against climate change

Embeds 7 Key Principles

Same District Plans Same District Plans Same District Plans Same District Plans

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Key Partners

Climate Risk

Water

Green Infrastructure

Health & Well Being

Biodiversity

The LEP & Business

Community + Resilience

Planning

Transport & Infrastructure

The 9 piece jigsaw – GIA Partnership

EVIDENCE

POLICY

DELIVERY

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Green Infrastructure & Adaptation Delivery Group, CIL Work Plan

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City’s Productive Landscapes – Principle 4Birmingham Forest Birmingham Tree Bond Food – SMART-City

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Natural Health Improvement Zones – Principle 3•Liveable Cities Trial – 2012-13, (in HPA Strategy for Birmingham 2011-15)

1952 smog London = 4,075 excess deaths –Clean Air Act;(COMEAP’s 2008 Report )

4,267 predicted deaths,PM10’s & 2.5’s

NATURAL HEALTH IMPROVEMENT

ZONES

Birmingham as National Pilot:

•Build a new city economy

•Green Bridge Economy Programme

•BCSD-UK & WBCSD- CEV Tool

•TEEB-Eu

“We will put natural capital at the centre of economic thinking; and at the heart of the way we measure economic progress.”

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Public Sector

Private Sector

Ecosystem City Model