Green Infrastructure Strategy

Publication Type: Green Infrastructure Strategy | Publication Date: 11 March 2025

The Greater Norwich Green Infrastructure Strategy (GNGIS) was approved by the Greater Norwich Growth Board (GNGB) at their meeting on 11th March 2025. This strategy provides an update to the Greater Norwich Green Infrastructure (GI) Strategy 2007, driven by an array of changes in policy at national level, and other strategies and plans at a more local level. The most prominent being the Environment Act 2021, and locally, the Greater Norwich Local Plan (GNLP - adopted March 2024).  

The strategy has been developed to align with the methods and principles of Natural England's Green Infrastructure Framework, and in alignment with the Norfolk Local Nature Recovery Strategy. 

Developed with input from a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, this strategy is a culmination of extensive collaboration and provides a flexible framework for guiding and prioritising the most suitable types, locations and scale of GI needed to support future growth, alongside health and wellbeing, biodiversity and climate resilience. 

The desired outcomes from the strategy are for:  

• Healthier, happier and more active people
• Nature-rich places
• Climate-resilient places
• Prosperous communities