Emerging Masterplan Green Infrastructure
Development at Ashton Park will provide a minimum of 60 hectares of open space. This includes playing fields, areas of natural green space, areas for informal recreation, neighbourhood parks, allotments, footpaths and cycle routes, ecological habitats and flood risk management. Each resident of the development will be within a 5-10 minute walk (400m) of high quality green space and local play space will be provided within all neighbourhoods.
Green spaces will be connected by a network of corridors, which will also link existing areas of green land and ecological habitats.
We are proposing two primary and a number of secondary green infrastructure corridors :
- The largest corridor runs between Yanley Ridge and the railway line, connecting Bedminster Down with the open countryside to the west. This corridor will include informal recreational space, areas for wildlife and a network of footpaths and cycleways connecting the new neighbourhoods with each other, with the existing edge of Bristol and the surrounding countryside.
- The second corridor runs east to west along an existing stream corridor and will become a significant linear park. It will maintain and improve existing wildlife corridors and will incorporate surface water attenuation for the development.
- The masterplan includes a number of smaller green corridors running along existing streams. These provide valuable connections for people and wildlife and will help to shape the character of the different neighbourhoods.
