Green Victoria

The project seeks to deliver a set of four visions: • Revealing Westminster’s Marshland Past, • Ecology Corridors in the Urban Realm • Streets as Parks of the Future • People’s Everyday Experience of Ecology The visions span across physical interventions such as redistribution of road corridors to encourage a modal shift to cycling and walking, proposing a grey water green roof system for future developments and social grass roots projects that encourage growing, healthy eating and green neighbourhoods that are pleasant to walk through on a daily basis. A tree legacy plan is at the forefront of our thinking with a strategy to plant forest scale trees by removing parking and seeking service free zones on Victoria Street. This idea goes further to also look at service diversions for trees and reduced carriageway widths to support SUDS. There are also future proposals that consider combined service trenches in Victoria Street to support the reintroduction of subsoils in the city and support vibrant populations of trees. Habitat creation is a key performance indicator for the success of this project in an area of the city that currently has no designated sites despite its optimal location between the River Thames and the green resources of St James Park and Buckingham Palace Garden.