Green Infrastructure Planning in County Clare

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Green Infrastructure is the interconnecting network of land and water all around us that sustains environmental quality and enriches the quality of our life.
Green Infrastructure provides economic, educational, ecological and social benefits through natural solutions and help us to understand the advantages that nature can offer to society.
Within County Clare opportunities exist to expand and strengthen the green infrastructure network and to explore the integration of green infrastructure in both public and private developments in the future.

What is Green Infrastructure?

Green infrastructure can include:

• Parks and Gardens – urban parks, pocket parks, formal country demesnes;
• Amenity Green Spaces – children’s play areas, playing fields, communal green space within housing estates;
• Natural and Semi-natural Green Spaces – woodland, scrub, nature reserves, grassland, heath, bogs, water bodies, floodplains; bare-rock habitats;
• Green Corridors – cycle and walking routes, river banks and field hedgerows, rights of way, green roadside verges and lake shores;
• Other Green Spaces – allotments, community gardens, heritage sites, graveyards;
• Domestic gardens, street trees and civil spaces in urban spaces.

To find out more about Green Infrastructure Planning in Clare, please see:

• The Ennis and Environs Green Infrastructure Plan 2014
• Green Infrastructure Plan and Design Guide for Shannon Town
• The Clare Tree Design Guide 2017 
• County Clare Wetland Survey 2008
• Buds of the Banner – A Guide to Growing Native Trees and Shurbs in Clare