The Council are seeking the assistance of local communities and others to put forward areas of green space, through a Call for Green Spaces process.
The purpose of this is to identify green spaces that could be considered suitable for designation as Local Green Space (LGS).
LGS is an additional layer of protection for green spaces, included in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), and allows those that meet a set of criteria to be designated. The NPPF (2021) in paras 101-103 sets out the role of LGS: