Green Infrastructure
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Green Infrastructure provides for health, wealth and wildlife in the Haven Gateway
These pages are about Green Infrastructure (GI) in the Haven Gateway area of Essex and Suffolk. GI is a planned network of quality green spaces and other features providing a range of benefits.
In the Haven Gateway a good quality environment attracts residents, visitors and businesses. Green spaces can increase land values and creates a place to relax and exercise.
Good GI planning can: provide income; employment; protect our heritage; reduce the threat from climate change and promote sustainable transport.
Green Infrastructure makes the Haven Gateway a unique place to live and visit, it provides for health, wealth and wildlife. Behind our long coastline runs a unique network of rivers and countryside linked together by footpaths and cycle ways.
Our green heritage includes 2 areas of outstanding natural beauty and many places important to wildlife. The towns feature award-winning parks and the coast is famous for its bird life.
The Haven Gateway is changing. Planning for that change means we have to work together.