Year of Issue 2018 General National Id UK_7 Site name Barking Riverside Green Roof Ecomimicry Experiment Summary Conserving important brownfield invertebrate community of regional importance as part of strategic multifunctional green infrastructure. Target species included the brown-banded carder bee (Bombus humilis) (UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priority Species) and Gymnosoma nitens (RDB1) but also a wider set of species. This project used an innovative ecomimicry approach to designing urban green infrastructure for the new development. Ecomimicry involves mimicking the characteristics of local ecosystems, in this case regionally important open mosaic habitat which had formed on the post-industrial brownfield site. Designing green roofs using ecomimicry of key brownfield habitat niches provided a mechanism for conserving the biodiversity, habitat connectivity and ecosystem service provision of the brownfield site post-development. This approach also offered opportunities for local communities to reconnect with nature, and the industrial heritage of the site, promoting engagement, ownership and enjoyment. Novel green roof designs were developed and tested on site and were successful in supporting the regionally important biodiversity associated with the site prior to development. The results are being fed into innovative green infrastructure design that will be rolled out more broadly across the site as wider redevelopment continues. Embedding regional context into green roof design enabled alleviation of location-specific issues caused by urbanisation of the site and allowed restoration of regionally typical and important habitat and ecosystems. It is hoped that such design will enable Barking Riverside site to act as stepping stone habitat (Saura et al., 2014), providing connectivity between key sites that are being conserved and protected in the region Light or indepth? Light The in-depth description of the case study ecomimicry_barking_riverside-en-vf.pdf Location description Barking Riverside, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, UK Post-industrial brownfield site that supported important biodiversity now being redeveloped to provide 11,000 homes NUTS Code Outer London RBD code Thames Transboundary 0 Data provider Stuart Connop, Senior Research Fellow at UEL NWRM(s) implemented in the case study Green Roofs Longitude 0.118587 Latitude 51.520402 Site information Climate zone cool temperate moist Mean annual rainfall 900 - 1200 mm Type Actual Test Site Average slope range 1-2% Monitoring maintenance Monitoring impacts effects 0 Design & implementations Public consultation 0 Contractural arrangements 0 Design contractual arrangement Arrangement type Responsibility Role Comments Name Design consultation activity Activity stage Key issues Name Comments Design land use change Land use change type Design authority Authority type Role Responsibility Name Comments Lessons, risks, implications... Financing mechanism 0 Success factor(s) Success factor type Success factor role Comments Financing Financing type Comments Barrier Barrier type Barrier role Comments Driver Driver type Driver role Comments Financing share Financing share type Share Comments Policy, general governance and design targets Part of wider plan 0 Policy target Target purpose Policy pressure Pressure directive Relevant pressure Policy area Policy area type Policy area focus Name Comments Policy impact Impact directive Relevant impact Policy wider plan Wider plan type Wider plan focus Name Comments Policy requirement directive Requirement directive Specification Photo gallery Full Context Pathway(aka Context) Default view Area(aka Level or Site) ALL