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Green Infrastructure - Exeter

Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM (GMT)

Exeter, United Kingdom

Green Infrastructure - Exeter

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Following the popularity of the seminars held in London, Cardiff and Edinburgh, the Landscape Institute will host a free seminar in Exeter.

Green Infrastructure is  acritical approach to landscape managemnet, design and planning. As part of the Landscape Institute's dissemination of its work in this area the LI and WRAP (Waste & Resources Action programme) are delighted to invite you to attend a free breakfast seminar which looks at how this approach has been developed at a policy level and how it is being implemented locally. One of the key issues in delivering GI projects working from a range of perspectives including master planning, regional development, use of recycled materials, planning and landscape design.

This seminar, for LI members only, is sponsored by WRAP, the government funded agency which helps individuals, businesses and local authorities to reduce waste and recycle more, making better use of resources and helping to tackle climate change. Places are restricted so register as soon as possible.

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Programme

9-00 refreshments and registration

9-30 Introduction to the Landscape Institute's work on sustainable landscape, climate change policy development and the recent publication on green infrastructure

Paul Lincoln, Director of Policy Communications, Landscape Institute

9-35 Green infrastructure from the ground up: the business case for using onsite materials to manufacture new soil; how to capture cost savings and an explanation of the environmental benefits.

Paul Mathers, Programme Manager, Landscape and Regeneration, WRAP

9-55 Green Infrastructure: Understanding it and implementing it: an overview of GI concepts and principles, strategies for development and delivery and some successful examples.

Ian Phillips MLI, Landscape Architect

10-15 Sustainable Living: The Role of Green Infrastructure - how do we influence those that make decisions about the design and delivery of green infrastructre?

Naomi Wright, Natural England

10-35 LDA Design's approach to GI strategy development in the Growth Points.

Neil Homer, LDA Design

10-55 Questions and discussions

11-30 Close

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