Thank you for celebrating 25 Years with us!
It has been an incredible quarter of a century at GreenBlue Urban and what better than to celebrate in style and say thank you to our friends and supporters from across the private and public sector. We have been fortunate over these years to have established lasting partnerships with respected colleagues, enabling us to develop […]
Is Wellness the new Buzzword..
For Urban Regeneration? The high street is facing tough times. Apart from some very fashionable town centres in popular and well-healed parts of the country, the on-line shopping revolution is seriously hurting. The hurting has generated some very valiant schemes improving the browsing experience for those addicted to shopping. It is unlikely that they will […]
GI & The Greater London Authority
Recently Charlotte Markey had the pleasure of talking to Peter Massini, Principal Green Infrastructure Officer at the Greater London Authority. The environmental focus for the GLA are addressing a number of key issues covering Parks and Green Spaces, Pollution and Air Quality, Climate Change and Water to name a few – all key topics affecting […]
How Trees Make Properties & Developments Sell Faster
Whether you’re a landscape architect or other specifier working on a design, or a developer building a property, a quick and efficient sale for your finished project can be of utmost importance. Urban trees can contribute to reducing the length of time that properties spend on the market, increased exponentially by the presence of mature […]
The Arb Association Engages Westminster
Not inside the hallowed halls of Westminster but in the Victoria Tower gardens on a warm July morning, the Arb Association organised an engagement event for members of the Lords and the Commons. It was exciting to have a tree climbing demonstration integrated into the proceedings this year with a detailed explanation of all the […]
How Trees Increase Property Values
Research has proven that trees provide significant benefits for developers and property owners by increasing property values and selling prices. One US study even determined that large street trees were the single most important indicator of attractiveness in a community (Coder, 1996). These advantages are a result of several inter-related benefits that trees convey, including […]
How the LTOA is Making a Difference for Street Trees
GreenBlue Urban are delighted to have sponsored the LTOA July Seminar, kindly hosted by the London Borough of Barnet. GBU sponsored the production of the latest guidance Surface materials around trees in hard landscapes. This guidance is particularly welcome at a time when many local authorities face challenges to budgets and resources and a care […]
Announcing our 25th Anniversary
GreenBlue Urban are delighted to celebrate their 25th silver anniversary. The month was July, the year 1992, a landscape gardener from Hastings, East Sussex having studied horticulture, arboriculture, tree nomenclature and landscape design at Plumpton Agricultural College soon realised there were causes for early tree mortality. On a particularly dry summer he discovered that drought […]
How to Make an Unsustainable Landscape Sustainable
Rome wasn’t built in a day. And considering that it’s over 2,500 years old, it’s fair to say that it has sustained a fair bit in its day. Over the past year, Rome has improved its ranking in the world’s top ten sustainable cities from 8th place to 7th, based on sustainable environment factors. Not […]
The Implementation of Blue Green Corridors
In the last decade there has been a significant rise in the number of green, or what are now being termed as “blue-green” corridors, being established in our dense urban environments in order to enhance and maintain existing habitats by connecting fragmented and isolated ecosystems. Benedict and MacMahon (2006), in their definition of green infrastructure, […]