Open space audits and strategies

Programme and presentations

• Setting the scene - Julie Procter, greenspace scotland | presentation
• Presentation: Fife’s approach to auditing open space – Kevin O’Kane, Fife Council | presentation
• Open space strategies – around Scotland | challenges and opportunities?
• Presentation: Making strategic connections – Alex Laidler, City of Edinburgh Council | presentation
• Open space audits – practice and plans + advice and guidance
• Presentation: Glasgow: implications of draft Regs & driven by data – Alan Duff & Rania Sermpezi, GCC | presentation

Notes from workshop discussions

• Open space audits and strategies - opportunities and challenges
• Advice, guidance and sharing practice

Examples of audit and quality assessment tools and resources

• Glasgow Quality Matrix proforma
• Aberdeen Quality Criteria - surveyors form
• GS/GCVGNP (2008) Greenspace Quality - a guide to assessment, planning and strategic development

If you have any other resources or tools to share with colleagues, please email link or doc

Quick links

• Scottish Government consultation on draft Regulations for Open Space Strategies and Play Sufficiency Assessment
  Consultation closed on 31 March 2022
• Minister's blog on consultation
• Report on Health Inequalities Impact Assessment Scoping Exercise of draft Regulation
• Links shared in Chat during meeting