Carts Greenspace

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Carts Greenspace is a partnership project that has successfully completed a wide variety of projects in recent years, including:

• design and construction of community gardens
• school grounds improvements
• creation of wildlife areas and nature reserves
• tree planting projects
• construction of footpaths and cycleways
• clean up campaigns
• project promotion and art projects
• developing growing opportunities.
• coordinating management of Local Nature Reserves.
• enhancing public parks and helping friends groups.

Through its work the Carts Greenspace Team supports the10 goals of the Central Scotland Green Network for 2030:

• attractive, safe and well –maintained greenspace and accessible countryside:
• Investment in green infrastructure
• enhancing landscape setting and bringing vacant and derelict land into beneficial use
• land used for community growing – allotments, orchards and gardens:
• increase in woodland cover
• Integrated Habitat Network
• high quality routes for active travel and recreation:
• improving health and well-being
• community pride and ownership
• climate change and land management

Your help is needed! Carts Greenspace supports innovative projects led by the community, so if you have a good idea or want further information please contact the project team.

You can find out more about the project on the Carts Greenspace website.

More information is available in these documents:

Action Update Autum 2010 (pdf - 903KB)
Annual Statement 2009/10 (pdf -1.3MB)

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Contact information

• email: pt@renfrewshire.gov.uk
• phone: 0141 842 5811/5822
• fax: 0141 842 5040
• write to:

Planning and Transport
Renfrewshire House
Cotton Street
PAISLEY
PA1 1LL