Greenspaces user needs survey

Salford City Council recognises the importance of open space to the quality of life of local people. Salford Greenspace Strategy Supplementary Planning Document was adopted in 2006 to ensure that everyone has good access to high quality greenspaces of all types.

Major consultation took place in 2005 on the appropriate standards for, and location of, outdoor play areas, parks and sports facilities.  

The city council completed an audit and assessment of the existing provision and demand in 2005 for all of the other types of green spaces in Salford. These wider green space sites were considered regardless of ownership or the level of public access and covered a wide variety of functions and characteristics:

• Country parks and local nature reserves
• Woodlands
• Rivers/canals and lakes/reservoirs/ponds
• Looplines (created along the dismantled railway lines)
• Golf courses
• Cemeteries
• Allotments
• Informal/natural green space areas within the built environment

Part of this process involved a user survey to understand the sites that were particularly valued, whether there was enough of these wider green spaces in the right places and how they should be managed. There was also consideration of the people that were not using the city’s wider green spaces and why. The responses from the user survey from August and September 2005 are available to view.

For further information regarding the production of The Salford Greenspace Strategy please contact Steve Davey on 0161 793 3762 (email steve.davey@salford.gov.uk).

Who to contact

Name

Planning and Transport Futures

Address

Sustainable Regeneration
Salford City Council
Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton
Salford
M27 5BY
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Telephone

0161 793 3762

Email

steve.davey@salford.gov.uk

This page was last updated on 12 September 2011