Green Infrastructure
Bristol BID are consulting on a new Green Infrastructure Action Plan for the city centre.
Tom Swithinbank
Senior Project Manager
In Spring 2026 we will be consulting on a Green Infrastructure Action Plan via a series of walks, workshops and an online mapping tool. This new plan will reflect the BID area’s expanded area and the unification of the three BIDs.
Please do engage with this process, we want to hear your ideas for locations for anything you believe could improve the public realm in the city centre. This could include trees, benches, art, greening ideas and signage. Our online map will give anyone the opportunity to add ideas and to ‘like’ other people’s ideas.
Green Infrastructure Consultation
– Plot your ideas and view others on our online map
– Join our Consultation Workshop to discuss the opportunities and challenges of urban greening in Bristol (date tbc)
Online Map: Let us know your ideas for Bristol City Centre
We want to hear your ideas for improving the public realm in Bristol city centre. Let us know ideas for greening, places to sit and rest, improved facilities for walking, cycling and wheeling and public art.
On the map linked below, you can plot your ideas as well as ‘like’ other people’s ideas to show your support.
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.