• Allotments
• Amenity space, including communal green spaces within housing areas
• Green corridors, including hedgerows, ditches, disused railways and verges
• Brownfield and Greenfield sites
• Urban parks and gardens
• Registered commons and village and town greens
• Children’s play space
• Natural and semi-natural habitat for wildlife
• Playing fields
  
• Cemeteries
  
• Pocket parks
  
• Country parks
  
• Woodland
  
• Historic parks and gardens and historic landscapes
  
• Nature reserves
  
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest and Scheduled Monuments
  
• Locally designated heritage sites, including county wildlife sites
  
• Waterways and waterbodies, including flooded quarries
  
• Development sites with potential for open space and links
  
• Land in agri-environmental management
  
• Public rights of way, cycleways and other recreational routes

Green Infrastructure provides benefits for people and the environment. It is as important as other infrastructure, like roads and railways. It is needed to meet economic and social needs.

Well planned and managed GI will make Bedfordshire and Luton a better place to live in, work in and enjoy. Benefits include:

• more areas for wildlife
  
• reducing the risk of flooding and better air and water quality
  
• helping to deal with the causes and impacts of climate change
  
• more public open spaces
  
• better health and well-being
  
• greater opportunities for enjoyment of our heritage
  
• economic gain

Our vision is to develop high quality green infrastructure throughout Bedfordshire and Luton, creating a multi-functional network of innovative and stimulating places and spaces. By encouraging opportunities to engage with the environment at all levels, we will develop a green infrastructure network that contributes to the foundation of healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities, ensuring that Bedfordshire and Luton is a better place to live in, work in, and enjoy.