A response to the consultation attached to Planning For the Future (https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-for-the-future)
Nicholas Smith's Outputs (17)
The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning (2019)
Book
The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning provides a short, introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with little or no prior knowledge. The book considers who planners are and what they do, presents a history, considers plannin... Read More about The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning.
Do built environment assessment systems include high quality green infrastructure? (2019)
Book Chapter
Green infrastructure is understood to be a critical feature of sustainable cities, providing numerous benefits to people and wildlife. However, there are challenges associated with its planning, design and delivery related to skills and knowledge in... Read More about Do built environment assessment systems include high quality green infrastructure?.
Setting the Standard for Green Infrastructure: The Need for, and Features of, a Benchmark in England (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Green infrastructure is an essential component of health and sustainable places. The quality of green infrastructure often represents a missed opportu... Read More about Setting the Standard for Green Infrastructure: The Need for, and Features of, a Benchmark in England.
Raising the standard: Developing a benchmark for green infrastructure (2017)
Journal Article
© 2018 WIT Press Green infrastructure (GI) is globally recognised as an essential component of liveable and sustainable places. It is valued for its multifunctionality and the connectedness of the individual features to each other, the surrounding co... Read More about Raising the standard: Developing a benchmark for green infrastructure.
The translation and use of green infrastructure evidence (2017)
Journal Article
The success of green infrastructure (GI) depends on the sharing of good practice and research between disciplines and sectors. This paper presents findings from a study to examine how GI research is shared with non-academic audiences. GI has been an... Read More about The translation and use of green infrastructure evidence.
National benchmark for green infrastructure: A feasibility study (2016)
Report
This research examines whether a market exists for a national benchmark for green infrastructure (GI) in England. It is funded through a Natural Environment Research Council Innovation Fund (Grant Reference: NE/N016971/1). This builds on a Knowledge... Read More about National benchmark for green infrastructure: A feasibility study.
Green infrastructure and urban water management (2015)
Book Chapter
This chapter will first outline the many challenges water poses in modern society, considering the increasing frequency and severity of flooding and droughts as inevitable outcomes of potential climate change and increasing impermeable ground-cover t... Read More about Green infrastructure and urban water management.
The future of green infrastructure (2015)
Book Chapter
From its origins in nineteenth-century parks green, infrastructure has been an ever-evolving component of cities. This chapter makes some observations based on a number of key trends in society and emerging patterns of green infrastructure provision... Read More about The future of green infrastructure.
Handbook on Green Infrastructure (2015)
Book
Green infrastructure is widely recognised as a valuable resource in our towns and cities and it is therefore crucial to understand, create, protect and manage this resource. This Handbook sets the context for green infrastructure as a means to make u... Read More about Handbook on Green Infrastructure.
Study skills for town and country planning (2013)
Book
Green infrastructure in urban areas (2011)
Report
The ductile grinding of glass using diamond fibres oriented radially in a grinding wheel (2003)
Journal Article
Diamond-coated fibres, produced by a hot filament chemical vapour deposition technique and having a high facet density, have been prepared for use as abrasives. Two grinding wheels containing such fibres have been fabricated with the fibres placed in... Read More about The ductile grinding of glass using diamond fibres oriented radially in a grinding wheel.
Building with nature: A new benchmark for green infrastructure
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Green infrastructure (GI) is globally recognised as an essential component of liveable and sustainable places. However there is still considerable uncertainty about the best way to design, deliver and maintain GI particularly amongst planners and dev... Read More about Building with nature: A new benchmark for green infrastructure.
Building with nature: A new benchmark for green infrastructure
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Green infrastructure (GI) is globally recognised as an essential component of liveable and sustainable places. It is widely acknowledged that it is the primary mechanism for delivering ecosystem services in towns and cities and there is a substantial... Read More about Building with nature: A new benchmark for green infrastructure.
Development of a benchmark for green infrastructure
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper presents the development of a benchmark for green infrastructure (GI). Green infrastructure is recognised globally as an essential component of liveable and sustainable places. It is valued for its multi-functionality and the connectedness... Read More about Development of a benchmark for green infrastructure.
Delivering homes and infrastructure through incentivisation: The role of the growth points agenda and the New Homes Bonus
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Delivering homes and infrastructure through incentivisation: the role of the growth points agenda and the New Homes Bonus
The formation of the Coalition Government has led to a dramatic change in the operation and promotion of governance, the mana... Read More about Delivering homes and infrastructure through incentivisation: The role of the growth points agenda and the New Homes Bonus.