Bankside Urban Forest is about making Bankside a better place to live, work and visit.  It is a strategy for enhancing public spaces - including streets, pavements, squares and parks - in the Bankside area.

A forest is a place with a strong overall character, which allows diverse activities, freedoms and places within it. The aim of the Bankside Urban Forest is to achieve this quality in a city context. The strategy is not literally to turn the area into a  forest, although it does create opportunities for greening, using trees, planted walls, and other means.

Making it happen
Bankside Urban Forest:

• Provides a long term vision for the area.
• Will achieve and support a range of projects.
• Provides a flexible but co-ordinated approach to public spaces across Bankside.
• Is working in partnership with residents, local government and businesses.
• Sets out a range of design principles for describing some of the key spaces within Bankside.

For further information contact Valerie Beirne, Bankside Urban Forest Manager.  E-mail vb@betterbankside.co.uk