It takes a team to create a report

It takes a team to create a report

Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager GiGL’s flagship report, the ecological desktop study, presents a snapshot of the GiGL Partnership’s knowledge of a site or an area. The report is the culmination of a lot of time and effort to collate information about the whole...
Ancient Woodland Inventory Volunteers

Ancient Woodland Inventory Volunteers

Over the last 18 months GiGL have been mapping all ancient woodland in Greater London. This work will update Natural England’s Ancient Woodland Inventory (AWI), allowing us to address errors and omissions in the current dataset, and will help us to ensure that all...
Rewild London: Haringey’s Ancient Woodlands

Rewild London: Haringey’s Ancient Woodlands

Through GiGL’s project to update the Ancient Woodland Inventory for Greater London, we are identifying unrecognised ancient woodland sites (areas that have been continuously wooded since at least 1600 AD) across the capital. By ensuring their inclusion within the...

Where are our wastelands?

Mandy Rudd, GiGL Director ‘Imagine you are walking through a field in summer. You might think you were in the heart of the country, but you could equally be in the middle of London where urban wastelands … previously developed land that has been abandoned by people...

Accessing open space

Tony Leach, London Parks & Green Spaces Forum Sustainable and Accessible Urban Landscapes (SAUL) is a spatial planning project funded under the European Union’s Interreg IIIB* initiative. Partners from seven regions across Northwest Europe, including London,...