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Regions - ECOTEC in Yorks & Humber

ECOTEC works all over the UK, Europe and increasingly internationally.

From our UK offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, London, Manchester and Newcastle-Under-Lyme we deliver our full range of services throughout the UK. From our Brussels and Madrid offices we serve local markets and European Union clients in particular and, through our membership of the ECORYS group of companies we work throughout the EU, its Candidate Countries and in developing and transition economy countries. For details of the regions we work in, see below or check out our most recently added projects in the right-hand panel.

For more information about our work in any region contact Matt Crossley using the details below.

clare.johnson@ecotec.com
+44 121 616 3600

Case Study: Raising the quality of the North’s City Regions

The project's objectives were:

 

  • First, to provide a practical, working definition and explanation of the term Green Infrastructure and how it could be applied to communities across the North of England.
  • Second, to investigate current approaches to the implementation of Green Infrastructure in the UK but learning from experience across Europe.
  • Thirdly, to investigate and explain the key economic benefits that investment in Green Infrastructure can bring and where value can be added to a ‘traditional’ economic regeneration strategy;
  • Finally, to provide the Strategic Framework for action to allow emerging City Regions to undertake their own Green Infrastructure strategies and action plans and see, consequently, an increase in the quality of the North’s urban centres and surrounding rural hinterlands.

 

As a direct result of the work undertaken for the Northern Way, the North West Region has picked up strongly on Green Infrastructure as a key theme for the regeneration and renewal of its urban centres, based upon its 3 City Regions. To date, one City Region (Central Lancashire) has formally decided to undertake a Green Infrastructure Strategy, with others due to follow suit. Our work undertaken for the Northern Way, and subsequently for the Natural Economy North West project on further refining the impacts and benefits of Green Infrastructure, has placed ECOTEC at the forefront of this exciting new arena of strategic regeneration activity