We are very pleased to announce that the Greater London Authority (GLA) has published the 10 Minute Walk Map that shows areas that are more than a 10-minute walk from a publicly accessible greenspace.
In his manifesto, the Mayor pledged to ‘improve London’s network of green corridors and open spaces so that more Londoners live within a 10-minute walk of green space’. GiGL worked with the GLA to produce the 10 Minute Walk Map to help them identify these areas where people live more than a 10 minute walk from a reasonably sized green space (0.02ha) in order to help target greening.
The map is an excellent example of one of the key services GiGL offers Service Level Agreement (SLA) partners, which is to undertake analysis and mapping to provide an evidence base that informs partners’ policy and practice.
The map is based on a subset of GiGL’s Spaces to Visit dataset which provides a free source of information on open spaces in Greater London that are available to the public as destinations for leisure, activities and community engagement (including green corridors that provide opportunities for walking and cycling). GiGL then used our proprietary model that measures and maps areas within a certain walking distance to sites, to identify areas more than 800m walking distance from the selected Spaces to Visit.
An upcoming GiGLer article in early 2023 will provide more information on the 10-Minute Walk Map and how GiGL worked with the GLA to develop it. In the meantime if you are interested in the map you can find it here.