The Clyde and Loch Lomond area is facing increasing flood risks. There are currently around 98,000 homes and businesses at risk from flooding, and this may increase to 130,000 by 2080 due to climate change.

These extreme weather events affect the lives of Glaswegians, communities, homes and businesses, particularly within vulnerable areas, such as Drumchapel, Maryhill and Summerston, Possilpark, Bridgeton and Dalmarnock.

This project, together with local residents will develop a series of natural flood defenses that can reduce flood risks while providing additional positive benefits to affected communities.

Some of the interventions will include new street trees, woodland and sustainable drainage systems, using nature for managing floods, while increasing access to quality green spaces. If you are part of a community affected by flooding, please reach out to co-design these new vital projects.

For more information visit treesasinfrastructure.com and watch this video.

Perthshire Nature Connections Partnership (PNCP) is a long-term, nature-based vision to create a connection across Highland Perthshire between the Cairngorms and the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Parks. It works with a range of organisations across community, environment and land management (website for details).

PNCP promotes integrated, large-scale ecological restoration of a sustainable and resilient landscape that provides environmental, socio-economic and health and wellbeing benefits to communities and land-managers.

PERTHSHIRE NATURE CONNECTION PARTNERSHIP – UPPER TAY CATCHMENT COMMUNITIES

PNCP knows where our area can deliver vitally important landscape changes, supporting biodiversity and addressing climate change. Landscape change will put Natural Capital ‘in the bank’ for us all – we have been overdrawn for too long. UPPER TAY CATCHMENT COMMUNITIES was an established working title for us prior to Riverwoods.

Our transition to a nature-based landscape needs supporting. Our area includes sparsely populated and remote areas, and significant but seasonal tourist activity. And nature across the area faces a worrying future.

Our local communities can be as nature-based as can any area’s communities – they are adaptable and innovative; but they must not be left behind. The landscape is not ‘urban’ or ‘rural’ capital – it is natural capital for everyone.

PNCP's published programme (Apr 2022) is a good framework, and the time has arrived for landscape-scale change on the ground.

Riverwoods - UPPER TAY CATCHMENT COMMUNITIES  will unlock opportunities for innovation in nature-finance, providing specialist support to help us to deliver change faster and further. PNCP will enable change-projects to deliver, however best we can.  We are always seeking new partners – businesses, communities and land-managers.