Establishing woodlands on brownfield and contaminated land.
Greenspace can successfully be established to provide a wide range of socio-economic, health and environmental benefits. There are, however, many challenges in designing and implementing solutions for sustainable greenspace development. Our cutting-edge research is designed specifically to address those challanges and disseminate as best practice guidance.
Research
- Contamination and integrated remediation of brownfield land
- Developing restoration guidance for landfill sites
- Development of decision tools and best practice guidance for land regeneration
- Environmental benefits and impacts of greenspace development
- Site investigation and prioritisation for the establishment of sustainable greenspace on brownfield sites
- Sustainable restoration of brownfield sites
- Urban trees and greenspace in a changing climate
- Waste minimization and utilisation in greenspace creation
Research programmes are led from the Centre for Forestry and Climate Change.
Forthcoming conferences and events
Publications
Partnerships
Urban Regeneration and Greenspace Partnership
Providing information on maximising the benefits of green infrastructure (GI) to community groups, local authorities, planners, developers, researchers and government departments.
Related services
We provide a range of services to the environmental and remediation sector including:
- Design, implementation and management of research projects
- Development of best practice guidance and decision tools
- Technical consultation for greenspace development on brownfield and contaminated sites
- Evaluation of research and regeneration programmes
- Catchment based critical load assessments
- Brown field site investigations
- Soil-forming material advisory service for land reclamation
- Testing service for novel products/amendments for land reclamation.
Contact
For more information please contact:
Tony Hutchings
Land Regeneration and Urban Greening Team
Centre for Forestry and Climate Change
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey GU10 4LH
Tel: +44(0)1420 22255
Fax: +44(0)1420 23653
Email: tony.hutchings@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Other research themes
Science & technical disciplines
Research
EU research