The Grey to Green scheme activates and has helped to regenerate this area of Sheffield, through a radical green ecological design approach. The scheme makes a resource of water, whilst also acting as a food source for pollinators and providing for small mammals, invertebrates and birds, allowing the scheme to act beyond aesthetic value. Planting is at the forefront of the scheme, sculpting the redefined streetscape providing a pleasant pedestrian experience and improving economic investment.
This maintenance report outlines tasks for the whole of the Grey to Green scheme, rather than specific areas. The scheme is treated as one system rather than specifying maintenance tasks for individual species. The main function of the scheme, beyond aesthetic value, is to strategically manage and redirect rainwater and surface water - capturing and utilising water from the surrounding paved surfaces that previously would have been sent to treatment works through combined sewers, making an asset of water and alleviating flood risk. The scheme’s interaction with water has guided the key characteristics of the scheme, with suitable plant tolerances of varying water environments required.
