APSE - Parks One Day Seminar - Changing the climate of traditional parks management - Bill Cooper
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Changing the Climate of Traditional Parks Management
Bill Cooper, Policy, Projects and Performance Manager
Parks and Countryside, Wirral Council
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Introducing Wirral Resilient Parks Project
Funded by CLASP - an Environment Agency and NWIEP funded climate change support programme for North West local authorities
and public sector partners.
• Project Scope and Stages
• Link to Wirral Parks and Open Spaces Strategy
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WHAT WILL CLIMATE CHANGE MEAN FOR YOUR PARK?
What will
More rainfall in Winter…
…higher temperatures
…& hotter Summers
Mean for
Grass areas and sports pitches? Drainage? Play areas? Plants and trees? How people use and enjoy parks? The work of Parks staff and Friends groups?
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Building climate change resilience into operational management
Grassland, Playing Fields, Meadows and Heathland
Intensively used amenity grass
• Drainage• Irrigation• Aeration• Grass sward
Semi-natural grassland, meadows and heathland
• Diminish surface water run-off• Differential mowing
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Building climate change resilience into operational management
Planting
Shrub and tree planting• Carbon store
• Shade• Forage food
Species selection• Drought and storm tolerance
• Wide range
Establishment• Moisture, aeration and nutrients
• Granular polymers• Mulching
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Building Climate Change resilience into operational management
Surfacing, irrigation and drainage
• Path network• Permeability and resilience • Drainage charges• Playable and useable surfaces• Link to Playing Pitch Strategy• Irrigation• Above ground and below ground options
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Building Climate Change resilience into operational management
Play areas, street furniture, equipment and lighting
• Shade• Use of timber• Low energy or solar lighting• Equipment to encourage ‘social’ use e.g. outdoor gym
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The wider climate mitigation value of parks and green spaces
• Urban cooling in Summer
• Microclimate moderation
• Evapotranspiration
• Flood risk management
• Carbon footprint reduction: ‘leisure miles’, ‘food miles’ and more…
• Exemplar and education projects
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Example pilot park study: Wallasey Central Park
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Learning points from the project
• People are interested in climate change!
• An opportunity to engage communities about parks, including Friends groups and young people
• The importance of good parks ‘on the doorstep’
• Ensuring the additional use of parks e.g. in warmer weather is ‘social’
• Drainage, irrigation and more…
• Low tech to high tech solutions
• A menu of possibilities to develop as exemplarprojects
• The ‘Muddy Dog Principle’!
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For more information
Bill Cooper, Policy Projects and Performance ManagerWirral Council Parks and Countryside [email protected]
Wirral Parks and Open Spaces Strategy (Policies 4.2a-4.2c):www.wirral.gov.uk
Wirral Resilient Parks Project/CLASPwww.claspinfo.org/news/climate-resilient-parks
Climate Changewww.greeninfrastructurenw.co.uk/climatechange