Mapping activity across the West Midlands
During the stakeholder engagement it became clear that there is already a considerable amount of work underway across the region under different natural capital thematic areas:
Trees
- Birmingham Urban Forest Master Plan
- Solihull Urban Forest Strategy
- Wolverhampton Tree Strategy
- Coventry Tree Strategy (under consultation)
- Black Country i-Tree project researching the urban forest.
- Solihull Planting Our Future Arden Forest vision
Parks and Green Spaces
- Rethinking parks NESTA/National Lottery programme (Sandwell, Walsall and Coventry)
- Future Parks Accelerator (Birmingham)
- Garden City (Wolverhampton/Black Country)
- Black Country UNESCO Geopark
- Love Solihull (Solihull, including tree schemes)
- Linear Park (Coventry)
Habitats
- Natural England's Midlands Heathlands Heartlands opportunity mapping
- North Walsall Heathlands
- Highways green infrastructure planning (e.g. Wildlife Ways Solihull)
- Fens Pools and Buckpool Nature Reserve, Dudley
- Heathland restoration projects (Cannock Chase, Walsall, and South Staffordshire)
- Thame Valley Wetlands Nature Improvement Area
Rivers
- Opening and de-culverting (Rea, Sherborne, Alder Brook)
- Development of corridors (Cole, Tame and Severn partnerships)
- Flood management and restoration (Illey Brook, Smestow Brook, Tipton & Swan Brook)
- Habitat restoration (River Blythe)
- Habitat restoration (River Stour)
Region Wide
- Severn Trent Water Commonwealth Games Forest West Midlands National Park