London Under Pressure

London Under Pressure

Katherine Drayson, GLA Senior Policy Officer for Urban Greening and Resilience In London, we will need to build many new homes, schools and other public facilities to meet housing demand and support continued population growth. How can we factor London’s biodiversity...
London Sets a Trend

London Sets a Trend

Dr. Dave Dawson, ex-GLA, and John Archer, LB Tower Hamlets Biodiversity Officer and ex-GLA London has a trend-setting framework for protecting and enhancing biodiversity. The Mayor’s Biodiversity Strategy(1) has two main themes: protecting important wildlife habitat...
Street Trees

Street Trees

Matt Davies, GiGL Data Manager In the winter of 2008, we discussed how GiGL had been commissioned by the Capital Woodlands Project to help identify areas of London lacking street trees. In this article, we return to the subject but take a broader look at street trees...
Spaced Out

Spaced Out

Julie MacDonald, GiGL Open Spaces Project Officer Along with providing information on species and habitats, GiGL also holds a great deal of information on Greater London’s open spaces. We are currently working to enhance the coverage, quality and quantity of open...

Heaven’s above

Dusty Gedge, Living Roofs GiGL is being asked on a regular basis for details of green roof installations, especially by planners who need to demonstrate how they are meeting Mayoral targets on green roofs.This is a relatively difficult thing to provide, as green roof...