Green Space Strategy

The town was designed with a great deal of emphasis on green space and its importance in helping to create a thriving community. The town continues to benefit from the foresight of the original architects. They retained and protected many of the existing landscape features, such as hedgerows and lanes, ponds, woodlands and veteran trees, to create the open spaces, wildlife corridors and sense of identity that residents and visitors enjoy today. In 2024 a study found that 97.75% of Stevenage residents live within a 10-minute walk of a green space.

Good quality green space significantly contributes to the health, wellbeing, environmental resilience, image and identity of a town.

This strategy sets out objectives for the way green spaces in Stevenage are maintained, managed and improved to ensure that they are safe, accessible and sustainable, meeting the needs of our communities and the environment today and in the future.

The Stevenage Green Spaces Strategy sets out 71 actions that will benefit;

• allotments,
• cemeteries and churchyards,
• commons,
• open spaces,
• parks and public gardens,
• play areas,
• local wildlife sites, and
• woodlands.