Urban Greening Factor x High Density wins Planning Awards 2024

This award recognises our project for clearly demonstrating how professional planning work has been used to improve or protect the natural environment.

MICA were employed to undertake research into Urban Greening Factor (UGF). The research examines how to best deliver urban greening in high density residentially led developments through the analysis and review of projects delivered in London, the UK, and the world.

The study concludes with a list of recommendations for a variety of audiences including those: applying for planning permission, planning officers and clients. It also demonstrates meaningful, sustainable, and innovative solutions that can be used to increase UGF in high density residential developments.

LLDC commented:

“We are really pleased that the research produced by MICA has been so useful and successful in helping us strive for higher levels of greening. We are confident, and want to share, that delivering significant high quality green infrastructure and high density residential development is achievable – and is not a policy conflict – including on non-C3 residential schemes such as student accommodation and co-located industrial uses.

By using the guide we are better able to navigate the tension between the delivery of high density developments and the provision of urban greening. Recent projects have benefitted from the research – the most recent increasing the urban green factor calculation from 0.23 to 0.3 through the use of the guide.”