Small Moves, Big Impact
Planting & Landscape
The ambitions of the ideas illustrated throughout this document will need to be progressed in more detail to determine how they might be realised. This will require detailed research, engagement with different stakeholder groups, consultant design studies & cost analysis to determine potential outcomes.
At the highest level, the intention for the planting strategy is to foster greater biodiversity in Sandymount, both for the human ecology as well as flora and fauna.
Enhancing Sandymount’s Landscape & Biodiversity Infrastructure and its continuity to the wider city should be prioritised. The expansion of this infrastructure that creates ‘stepping stones’ of connected habitats while also facilitating the enjoyment for residents and visitors should be encouraged.
As well as producing a more attractive environment, planting and landscape can also have the function of filtration and drainage that is sustainable that reduces pressures on infrastructural drainage networks. SuDS (sustainable drainage systems) are a nature-based engineering solution that achieves this. Integrating SuDS into the further development of areas identified for additional planting and landscape could be adopted for a holistic solution for drainage as well as ecological enhancement.
