The fifteen year parks and green space strategy and food growing and allotment strategy for Bristol.
Our parks and green spaces strategy sets out a vision for Bristol's parks and green spaces over the next 15 years, to 2039. It includes green spaces that are managed by the council's Parks Service and land that is open to the general public to use for recreation.
The strategy identifies key actions to ensure that the city's parks and green spaces continue to contribute to people's health and wellbeing and respond to the ecological and climate emergencies.
Our food growing and allotments strategy is embedded in the parks and green spaces strategy.. We recognise the role our green space land plays in realising our vision for providing a thriving network of accessible spaces for local people, communities and social enterprises to grow healthy and sustainable food.
This network will tackle food inequity, strengthen food resilience and support community cohesion and wellbeing.
pdf Full parks and green spaces strategy (PGSS) (8.09 MB) : this is a large colour pdf document.
Themes and principles
The strategy is underpinned by five key principles:
- Collaboration
- Creativity
- Equitable and inclusive
- Financially sustainable
- Being informed
These principles will enable us to deliver improved outcomes, particularly against the six key priority themes we have identified:
- Nature and climate
- Children and young people
- Community participation
- Health and wellbeing
- Culture
- Employment and skills
Open space for recreation provision standards
The strategy also adopts a revised approach to pdf minimum standards for publicly accessible open spaces in Bristol (2.10 MB) , an important function in support of the Local Plan.
These standards help to ensure that there is sufficient, good quality open space to meet the needs of Bristol's population and maintain ambitious targets for open spaces while being grounded in realistic delivery.