Green & Blue Infrastructure Strategy Phase 1, and Carbon Offsetting Analysis of Council Owned Land

Description

Carmarthenshire County Council are inviting tenders for a consultant to prepare a ‘Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy’ (GBI) for Carmarthenshire County Council (CCC) The successful tenderer will present a vision for the development, maintenance, and connection of new and existing GBI. It is important that this vision is developed in collaboration with and shared by key stakeholders in order to generate widespread support and understanding. The strategy should inform planning policy, public space planning and management, complement the statutory provision of the authority, and successfully identify community partners and collaboration opportunities for the creation and maintenance of the GBI spaces and nature-based solutions. It should also seek to reflect local distinctiveness including creating a sense of place based on their distinctive character. GBI plans should seek to reinforce a places character and identity. The strategy should embrace long-term thinking to meet the needs of the current and future generations of residents and visitors to Carmarthenshire. Through this plan CCC seeks to express the concept of generational stewardship, and to this extent the GBI Strategy should seek to maximise benefit from GBI, and to impact not only current generations, but also to plan for the benefit of generations ahead (50 and 100 years plus) The strategy should seek to explore the benefits of GBI to its fullest extent and seek to identify partnership opportunities where GBI initiatives can be used to exploit wider environmental, health and socio-economic benefits. A list of prioritisation themes has been provided. The aim of the project is to produce a flexible strategic document that can act as a conduit to the delivery of National, Regional and Local priorities leading to an overarching strategy for the County and its main settlements delivering a more balanced landscape through the enhancement of GBI, one that supports healthy lives and active living, boosts local economic regeneration and is more environmentally resilient, biodiverse, and sustainable.