Green Infrastructure
Bristol BID is consulting on a new Green Infrastructure Action Plan for the city centre.
Tom Swithinbank
Senior Project Manager
Bristol BID Greening Fund - Now Open
Bristol BID is inviting businesses, landowners, residents and community groups to help make Bristol City Centre greener, healthier and more biodiverse thanks to our new Greening Fund. Whether you have a fully developed project or simply know of a space with the potential for planting, habitat creation or other greening improvements, we’d love to hear from you. You don’t need to have a fully developed project in mind; our team can help develop your ideas and, where appropriate, either provide funding for you to deliver the project or deliver it on your behalf through our Urban Gardener team.
A total of £25,000 is available between 1 July and 30 September 2026, with grants ranging from £200 to £5,000. While Bristol BID levy payers and the buildings they occupy will be prioritised, applications are welcome from everyone within the Bristol BID area . The application deadline is 30 September, with a new funding round opening from 1 November 2026.
Please complete the application form below.
More on our Green Infrastructure Action Plan
This new Green Infrastructure Action Plan is needed to represent and help inform decisions for the whole Bristol BID area, following the unification in November 2025.
This Action Plan will bring together the previous Bristol City Centre BID Green Audit and Redcliffe & Temple BID Green Infrastructure Action Plan as well as seeking new ideas for the city centre.
These two plans can be found here:
- Bristol City Centre BID Green Audit – 2019 – Produced by LUC
- Redcliffe & Temple BID Green Infrastructure Plan – 2023 – Produced by Landsmith Associates
We know that our businesses, their staff and the wider Bristol community want Bristol city centre to be a clean, attractive and environmentally friendly place to spend time. We have already invested in a number of Green Infrastructure projects including wildflower meadows, green walls and planters and we know that these are very much appreciated by people who engage with them. Green Infrastructure is also hugely important for the health of our city centre; reducing urban heat island affect, flooding, increasing biodiversity and capturing carbon emissions.
This plan will support the regional and city wide plans that already exist including West of England Joint Green Infrastructure Strategy, West of England Local Nature Recovery Strategy, Bristol City Council Parks and Green Spaces Strategy and the upcoming (Spring 2026) Bristol City Council Blue Green Infrastructure Strategy.
If you have any questions on the proposed Green Infrastructure Action Plan please contact Tom Swithinbank.