The Mersey Forest has developed a green infrastructure framework for Liverpool City Region, which consists (for the purposes of the framework) of Sefton, Liverpool, Wirral, Knowsley, Halton, St Helens and Warrington. The framework provides a city region level strategic assessment of green infrastructure. The framework has been partially funded by Natural England and has been accepted by the Local Nature Partnership as central guidance. It is built upon a spatial evidence base covering 28 functions of green infrastructure. For each function, both provision and need are mapped. Together, these are used to help generate a list of recommended actions.
The Mersey Forest
Own categorisation. Developed with other categorisations in mind. Used consistently in all Liverpool City Green Infrastructure mapping projects. 28 functions of green infrastructure were mapped
Which ecosystem services were focused on?:
- Aesthetic/inspiration
- Sense of place/heritage
- Education
- Health and well-being
- Recreation/tourism
- Crops, livestock, fish
- Drinking water
- Energy
- Food
- Trees, standing vegetation, peat
- Water supply
- Climate regulation
- Detoxification and purification in air, soils and water
- Erosion control
- Flood control
- Hazard regulation
- Noise regulation
Green travel routes
Liverpool City Region and Warrington Green Infrastructure Framework, Technical Document, 2013
Liverpool City Region and Warrington Green Infrastructure Framework, Action Plan, 2013, available at: http://www.merseyforest.org.uk/liverpool_action_final.pdf
Liverpool City Region and Warrington Green Infrastructure Framework, Summary, 2013