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Designing places that respect nature 

August 2020

By Gary Wilburn, HPW Architecture So, how do we make sure we derive genuine, long-term learning and benefit from these challenging and unusual times? Witnessing and hopefully remembering the current and tangible improvements in air quality, bird song, clear skies and clear water in our rivers and around the coast…

A Green Recovery: The opportunities ahead

July 2020

The Green Halo Partnership, Southern Policy Centre and Future South have prepared a paper for consideration. If you wish to highlight other projects that could potentially contribute to a green recovery framework, please use this form.  …

Trauma and change: will we do things differently?

July 2020

By Simon Eden, XCX Consulting In his book “The Language of Cities” Deyan Sudjic, Journalist and Director of London’s Design Museum, suggests that: “It takes trauma to make a complacent city invest in its future”. It’s only when a major crisis – from a loss of a key part of…

COVID-19: A chance to re-evaluate our relationship with nature, adapt behaviour and reboot lifestyle choices

May 2020

By Sam Gibson, Associate Director at BECG. On Sunday 10 May, the Prime Minister announced that he was lifting the one-hour daily limit on outdoor exercising that had been imposed when the nation went into lockdown on 23 March. When other restrictions that limit mobility and socialising remain in…

Life after lockdown – locking in environmental benefits

May 2020

In the seven weeks of lockdown many people have quickly become familiar with home working, meetings via Zoom or Microsoft Teams and educating their kids at home. And amongst the many challenges there is at least one good thing to come out of our new circumstances: we’re beginning to remember…

Natural opportunities for health

November 2019

By Jim Mitchell Interpretation and Outreach Manager, New Forest National Park Authority We are lucky to be blessed with lots of nature-rich and accessible greenspace in the Green Halo area, including the open space of the New Forest and an extensive network of footpaths, bridleways, country parks, urban parks, coastline…

Natural environment at centre of discussion about the south’s future

September 2019

Green Halo steering group members Alison Barnes and Simon Eden spoke about the need to put the environment at the heart of a combined identity for the Central South at a conference on Friday (20 September). Leading figures from Southampton, Portsmouth, the M3 corridor and the south east of Dorset…

Public concern for nature reaches all-time high

September 2019

Natural England press release: New national statistics show changes in how…

Landscapes review: call for evidence

December 2018

The Government has asked for an independent review of England’s National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs). You can find more about the work of the review and its Terms of Reference. Already the review team, led by Julian Glover and a…

Green Halo Partnership: First Anniversary

November 2018

The Green Halo Partnership held a conference on 27 November to mark the first anniversary of our launch. Over 70 people got together at the Ordnance Survey’s Offices in Southampton to discuss what had been achieved and how the Partnership could make an impact in the coming year. This report…