Climate Resilient Streets

Urgent action is needed to improve climate resilience in urban areas as extreme weather conditions become a more frequent occurrence.

It is beyond dispute that laying down swathes of concrete will exacerbate flooding by causing run-off. Alternatives are needed to blacktop, either through more green infrastructure or permeable surfacing.

These issues will be discussed at the inaugural Climate Resilient Streets.

The conference is designed for planners and engineers working in local authority, urban planners and landscape architects, landowners and developers, water and flood management professionals.

Climate Resilient Streets will cover:

• The latest green + blue innovations
• The virtuous circle: how green infrastructure will encourage modal shift
• Co-designing schemes with communities
• How to ensure that schemes are maintained with support with communities
• Developing multi-disciplinary partnerships to implement the right schemes
• Why green infrastructure is good for local economies
• Multi-functional infrastructure: Water as an asset rather than a liability
• Identifying new funding sources – making use of asset renewal budgets, S106 etc
• How monitoring can prove that rain gardens alleviate the impact of flash floods