The strategy is now adopted

Bristol's Parks and Green Space Strategy was adopted by the city council's Cabinet on Thursday 21 February.

The strategy sets out an ambitious plan over the next 20 years for ensuring that people have access to good quality parks and green spaces of different types, close to where they live.

Policies and standards

The strategy contains service management policies and a set of standards for quality, distance and quantity covering different types of green space in the city as follows:

• children and young people's space
• formal green space
• informal green space
• natural green space
• active sports space

Key highlights of the strategy are:

• an increase of up to 70 new play spaces across the city
• introduction of natural play spaces
• improved facilities for young people
• Parks Keepers in all the main traditional parks across the city as a minimum
• ensuring there is a good quality traditional park within easy reach
• safeguarding key historic estates and parks
• establishing a network of 16 Local Nature Reserves
• making natural green spaces more accessible and welcoming
• improving grounds maintenance
• tackling anti-social behaviour
• improving the quality of sports pitches
• creating dog free areas and tackling dog fouling
• developing and redesigning some backland sites

Download the strategy

The full strategy can be downloaded here - this is a large colour pdf document (3Mb) and you may find it easier  to download the document in smaller parts. We have therefore divided the strategy document into the main text and separate appendices and  the maps in appendix 7 are of better quality than those in the complete version of the document. You may download these documents from the related documents section at the foot of this page.

Contact us

You can call Bristol Parks on 0117 922 3719 or email: bristolparks@bristol.gov.uk  Monday to Friday 8.30am - 5pm (4.30pm Friday). Alternatively you can text us on 0771 039 6713 to report flytipping, graffiti, or make any other comments about Bristol's parks and green spaces. Please provide as much information and specific details as possible about the location attaching any supporting photographs. We will only call you back if we require further information.

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