City Centre Theme - Green and Blue Infrastructure

A key objective of the Vision should be to improve and create new parks, pocket parks, landscaped areas, green walls and roofs. It should also seek to make more of existing water courses and introduce a network of new water features.

This will not only create a more attractive townscape and complement our ambition to transform public realm, but it will complement our objectives to tackle climate change and help create a healthier environment.

There is an opportunity to make a bold statement at the heart of the city centre, through the creation of a new city park on the riverside, with the potential to incrementally increase its size over time.

This will create an amenity for surrounding new neighbourhoods as well as proving an asset for a strengthened visitor economy.

Elsewhere within the city centre unattractive routes and spaces will be greened to create a healthier and more attractive environment for those that live and work in central Derby.

Key headlines within this section are:

• The River Derwent and City Park
• Our City Our River
• Greening the inner ring road
• Greening other streets and routes
• Water features
• Biodiversity net gain