APSE Northern Region Forum and General Meeting
The pandemic has shown how important greenspaces are to people who have reconnected strongly with the natural environment globally. Coupled with this phenomenon, is the decline in retail on the high street, causing many local authorities to take the opportunity to transform their city centres and urban spaces to adopt a more mixed space approach in which greenspaces play a major part.
New parks, increased tree planting, water features and biodiversity habitats are now all forming part of many new developments whether this be housing, industry or retail. People are now realising and valuing their links with nature and the green environment and are demanding that the old traditional approaches to the urban street scenes are changed.
Presentations
Greening our urban spaces – why and how?
Wayne Priestley, APSE Principal Advisor
Promoting excellence in public services
APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) is a not for profit unincorporated association working with over 300 councils throughout the UK. Promoting excellence in public services, APSE is the foremost specialist in local authority frontline services, hosting a network for frontline service providers in areas such as waste and refuse collection, parks and environmental services, cemeteries and crematorium, environmental health, leisure, school meals, cleaning, housing and building maintenance.
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