Prof. Ian Mell
@ianmell.bsky.social
Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning / Head of Department Planning, Property & Environmental Management - lots of Green Infrastructure stuff
@PlanningUoM @OfficialUoM @UoMUrban
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Following our AGM on Sept 5, we’re excited to welcome 3 new Trustees to the LRG Board: saida hammami, Charlotte L McLean & Charlotte Veal.
We’re also pleased to confirm the re-election of Gillian Lawson and @ianmell.bsky.social
👉 Learn about our new Trustees: landscaperesearch.org/new-trustees...
We’re also pleased to confirm the re-election of Gillian Lawson and @ianmell.bsky.social
👉 Learn about our new Trustees: landscaperesearch.org/new-trustees...
September 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Following our AGM on Sept 5, we’re excited to welcome 3 new Trustees to the LRG Board: saida hammami, Charlotte L McLean & Charlotte Veal.
We’re also pleased to confirm the re-election of Gillian Lawson and @ianmell.bsky.social
👉 Learn about our new Trustees: landscaperesearch.org/new-trustees...
We’re also pleased to confirm the re-election of Gillian Lawson and @ianmell.bsky.social
👉 Learn about our new Trustees: landscaperesearch.org/new-trustees...
dirt.asla.org/2025/08/03/s... - managing public space and safety via better green space design.
SWA/Balsley Carves Public Space out of a Dangerous Intersection
One of the top ten most dangerous intersections in Washington, D.C. has been transformed into a safe gateway and green public space. Thomas Balsley, FASLA, co-managing principal of SWA/Balsley, sai…
dirt.asla.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
dirt.asla.org/2025/08/03/s... - managing public space and safety via better green space design.
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A survey from the RTPI and YouGov reveals that the UK public has serious doubts about whether the next generation of new towns will meet future needs.
These findings echo recommendations in RTPI’s Futureproof New Towns interim report:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/au...
These findings echo recommendations in RTPI’s Futureproof New Towns interim report:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/au...
Public lacks confidence in the next generation of New Towns, but has clear ideas for getting them right, RTPI and YouGov survey finds
73% of Brits are not confident the next generation of new towns will meet community needs in 50 years’ time.
www.rtpi.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
A survey from the RTPI and YouGov reveals that the UK public has serious doubts about whether the next generation of new towns will meet future needs.
These findings echo recommendations in RTPI’s Futureproof New Towns interim report:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/au...
These findings echo recommendations in RTPI’s Futureproof New Towns interim report:
www.rtpi.org.uk/news/2025/au...
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Do you have a passion for helping to create healthy, sustainable & resilient places that are fair for everyone?
Vacancy: Osborn Research Assistant. This role works on a range of TCPA projects, with an emphasis on large-scale new communities. Deadline: Mon 1 Sept
www.tcpa.org.uk/osborn-resea...
Vacancy: Osborn Research Assistant. This role works on a range of TCPA projects, with an emphasis on large-scale new communities. Deadline: Mon 1 Sept
www.tcpa.org.uk/osborn-resea...
Osborn Research Assistant (New Towns and Garden Cities) - Town and Country Planning Association
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) as the Osborn Research Assistant.
www.tcpa.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Do you have a passion for helping to create healthy, sustainable & resilient places that are fair for everyone?
Vacancy: Osborn Research Assistant. This role works on a range of TCPA projects, with an emphasis on large-scale new communities. Deadline: Mon 1 Sept
www.tcpa.org.uk/osborn-resea...
Vacancy: Osborn Research Assistant. This role works on a range of TCPA projects, with an emphasis on large-scale new communities. Deadline: Mon 1 Sept
www.tcpa.org.uk/osborn-resea...
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Growing up and attending school surrounded by trees can make a significant difference in the development of our children. Studies have found that trees can:
📝 Improve test scores
🚫 Reduce behavioural issues
😁 Decrease the risk of depression
🧠 Improve cognitive development
📝 Improve test scores
🚫 Reduce behavioural issues
😁 Decrease the risk of depression
🧠 Improve cognitive development
August 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Growing up and attending school surrounded by trees can make a significant difference in the development of our children. Studies have found that trees can:
📝 Improve test scores
🚫 Reduce behavioural issues
😁 Decrease the risk of depression
🧠 Improve cognitive development
📝 Improve test scores
🚫 Reduce behavioural issues
😁 Decrease the risk of depression
🧠 Improve cognitive development
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Free webinar: Tackling health inequalities through green & blue infrastructure (23 Oct)
Prof Ben Wheeler & Dr Mark Ferguson will discuss opportunities/risks for planners when integrating greenspace & the benefits of a systems approach. Plus a Dorset Council case study www.tcpa.org.uk/event/tackli...
Prof Ben Wheeler & Dr Mark Ferguson will discuss opportunities/risks for planners when integrating greenspace & the benefits of a systems approach. Plus a Dorset Council case study www.tcpa.org.uk/event/tackli...
Tackling health inequalities through green and blue infrastructure - webinar - Town and Country Planning Association
Can green and blue infrastructure help reduce health inequalities? Join this free webinar that will delve into the latest research linking planning, green / blue space, and health inequalities. Led…
www.tcpa.org.uk
August 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Free webinar: Tackling health inequalities through green & blue infrastructure (23 Oct)
Prof Ben Wheeler & Dr Mark Ferguson will discuss opportunities/risks for planners when integrating greenspace & the benefits of a systems approach. Plus a Dorset Council case study www.tcpa.org.uk/event/tackli...
Prof Ben Wheeler & Dr Mark Ferguson will discuss opportunities/risks for planners when integrating greenspace & the benefits of a systems approach. Plus a Dorset Council case study www.tcpa.org.uk/event/tackli...
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Further detail available on Policy@Manchester's website: www.policy.manchester.ac.uk/events/upcom...
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Party conferences 2025 | Policy@Manchester | The University of Manchester
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August 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Further detail available on Policy@Manchester's website: www.policy.manchester.ac.uk/events/upcom...
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At this year's Labour Party Conf, among the @manchester.ac.uk expert panellists we are pleased to see:
Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning discussing housing and infrastructure
Caroline Bond, Professor of Educational Psychology discussing school absence
#UKPolicy #PPEM #MIE
Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning discussing housing and infrastructure
Caroline Bond, Professor of Educational Psychology discussing school absence
#UKPolicy #PPEM #MIE
August 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
At this year's Labour Party Conf, among the @manchester.ac.uk expert panellists we are pleased to see:
Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning discussing housing and infrastructure
Caroline Bond, Professor of Educational Psychology discussing school absence
#UKPolicy #PPEM #MIE
Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning discussing housing and infrastructure
Caroline Bond, Professor of Educational Psychology discussing school absence
#UKPolicy #PPEM #MIE
www.placenorthwest.co.uk/manchester-g...
On paper this looks good - some of the rhetoric is a little OTT but that’s what you expect. It remains to be seen what they cost and who can afford to like their (including the 20% affordable). Also what will the impact be in Mayfield during construction
On paper this looks good - some of the rhetoric is a little OTT but that’s what you expect. It remains to be seen what they cost and who can afford to like their (including the 20% affordable). Also what will the impact be in Mayfield during construction
Manchester greenlights nearly 1,000 homes - Place North West
Landsec’s plans for 879 apartments at Mayfield and Great Places Housing Group’s ambitions for 82 affordable residences near Etihad Stadium can both progress now that city councillors have given them t...
www.placenorthwest.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
www.placenorthwest.co.uk/manchester-g...
On paper this looks good - some of the rhetoric is a little OTT but that’s what you expect. It remains to be seen what they cost and who can afford to like their (including the 20% affordable). Also what will the impact be in Mayfield during construction
On paper this looks good - some of the rhetoric is a little OTT but that’s what you expect. It remains to be seen what they cost and who can afford to like their (including the 20% affordable). Also what will the impact be in Mayfield during construction
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Join the Office of Green Infrastructure! We're hiring a Director of Green Infrastructure. Visit boston.gov/jobs and apply today!
July 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Join the Office of Green Infrastructure! We're hiring a Director of Green Infrastructure. Visit boston.gov/jobs and apply today!
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Reminder: LRG Board Nominations Close Soon!
There’s still time to put yourself forward to join the Landscape Research Group’s Board of Trustees in 2025.
Deadline for nominations: 3 August 2025 (this Sunday!)
Find out more and apply via our website landscaperesearch.org/trustee-oppo...
There’s still time to put yourself forward to join the Landscape Research Group’s Board of Trustees in 2025.
Deadline for nominations: 3 August 2025 (this Sunday!)
Find out more and apply via our website landscaperesearch.org/trustee-oppo...
Join LRG’s Team of Trustees in 2025 - Landscape Research Group
The trustees are crucial to LRG’s work. They ensure that the charity is well run, and they decide how the charity should go about meeting its aims, which are to advance landscape research and support ...
landscaperesearch.org
July 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Reminder: LRG Board Nominations Close Soon!
There’s still time to put yourself forward to join the Landscape Research Group’s Board of Trustees in 2025.
Deadline for nominations: 3 August 2025 (this Sunday!)
Find out more and apply via our website landscaperesearch.org/trustee-oppo...
There’s still time to put yourself forward to join the Landscape Research Group’s Board of Trustees in 2025.
Deadline for nominations: 3 August 2025 (this Sunday!)
Find out more and apply via our website landscaperesearch.org/trustee-oppo...
It’s really good to see this out - Some thoughts on grey/green belt for the Landscape Institute journal. Lots to consider with the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
How do we ensure that nature is essential infrastructure and change the rhetoric from build build build - to development with nature
How do we ensure that nature is essential infrastructure and change the rhetoric from build build build - to development with nature
July 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It’s really good to see this out - Some thoughts on grey/green belt for the Landscape Institute journal. Lots to consider with the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
How do we ensure that nature is essential infrastructure and change the rhetoric from build build build - to development with nature
How do we ensure that nature is essential infrastructure and change the rhetoric from build build build - to development with nature
I’m very not been in the Olympic park in London for a while but the phased residential and development of new GI and urban nature seems to be working well. New neighbourhoods, a vibrant atmosphere and a people centred approach to design.
July 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I’m very not been in the Olympic park in London for a while but the phased residential and development of new GI and urban nature seems to be working well. New neighbourhoods, a vibrant atmosphere and a people centred approach to design.
Some great news for Planning, Property & Environmental Management at Manchester. Phil Black and colleagues have been nominated for the RTPI Patsy Healey Award for Academic Excellence. We were also nominated via the Rural Planning Futures book led by Mark Scott
www.rtpi.org.uk/events-train...
www.rtpi.org.uk/events-train...
The RTPI Awards for Research Excellence
The RTPI Awards for Research Excellence recognise and promote high quality, impactful spatial planning research.
www.rtpi.org.uk
July 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Some great news for Planning, Property & Environmental Management at Manchester. Phil Black and colleagues have been nominated for the RTPI Patsy Healey Award for Academic Excellence. We were also nominated via the Rural Planning Futures book led by Mark Scott
www.rtpi.org.uk/events-train...
www.rtpi.org.uk/events-train...
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Blackheath and Greenwich looking more like a Savanna than a Common and Park on this hot London day! But #GreenInfrastructure providing "more than human" urban cooling benefits and interesting to see drought resistance of non-cut vs cut!
July 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Blackheath and Greenwich looking more like a Savanna than a Common and Park on this hot London day! But #GreenInfrastructure providing "more than human" urban cooling benefits and interesting to see drought resistance of non-cut vs cut!
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We’re excited to announce that LRG is partnering with the School of Landscape Architecture at Beijing Forestry University (BFU) to co-host the 2025 International Landscape Architecture Symposium (ILAS).
Call for Abstracts -- 15 August 2025
More info & submissions: landscaperesearch.org/ilas2025
Call for Abstracts -- 15 August 2025
More info & submissions: landscaperesearch.org/ilas2025
ILAS 2025 Conference Announcement - Landscape Research Group
We are delighted to announce that Landscape Research Group (LRG) is partnering with the School of Landscape Architecture at Beijing Forestry University (BFU) for the 2025 International Landscape Archi...
landscaperesearch.org
July 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We’re excited to announce that LRG is partnering with the School of Landscape Architecture at Beijing Forestry University (BFU) to co-host the 2025 International Landscape Architecture Symposium (ILAS).
Call for Abstracts -- 15 August 2025
More info & submissions: landscaperesearch.org/ilas2025
Call for Abstracts -- 15 August 2025
More info & submissions: landscaperesearch.org/ilas2025
I was talking to a friend about proportionality and biodiversity the other day. They have a wildlife focussed garden and it’s great but we discussed is it enough if not everyone is going the same. Here at work we’re doing small interventions. But how can we scale these up to ensure we get it right?
July 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I was talking to a friend about proportionality and biodiversity the other day. They have a wildlife focussed garden and it’s great but we discussed is it enough if not everyone is going the same. Here at work we’re doing small interventions. But how can we scale these up to ensure we get it right?
I was in Cambridge the other day and saw this building site. It used to be - I think - a timber merchants. So will it be big enough to be a neighbourhood and if your baseline for biodiversity was potentially 0% is that 280% increase meaningful. It so high density though so that’s good
July 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I was in Cambridge the other day and saw this building site. It used to be - I think - a timber merchants. So will it be big enough to be a neighbourhood and if your baseline for biodiversity was potentially 0% is that 280% increase meaningful. It so high density though so that’s good
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We're delighted to see our letter published in The Guardian last week! Read it here: tr.ee/guardian-let...
"Council budgets have fallen and there is no national strategy for green spaces, despite the huge benefits they offer, writes Ed Stannard."
"Council budgets have fallen and there is no national strategy for green spaces, despite the huge benefits they offer, writes Ed Stannard."
July 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We're delighted to see our letter published in The Guardian last week! Read it here: tr.ee/guardian-let...
"Council budgets have fallen and there is no national strategy for green spaces, despite the huge benefits they offer, writes Ed Stannard."
"Council budgets have fallen and there is no national strategy for green spaces, despite the huge benefits they offer, writes Ed Stannard."
I’ll be taking part in this event next week - if you’re interested in how green infrastructure can help create sustainable communities: How can we build infrastructure fit for the future? This might be for you.
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
Creating sustainable communities: How can we build infrastructure fit for the future? | Events at The University of Manchester
events.manchester.ac.uk
July 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I’ll be taking part in this event next week - if you’re interested in how green infrastructure can help create sustainable communities: How can we build infrastructure fit for the future? This might be for you.
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
I’ve just been on the castlefield viaduct for the first time in a while and it’s growing on me. Maybe it was the drizzle and mix of green and industrial architecture that lightened my mood. It could work as a connective route but is it a park. Lots for the National Trust to consider.
July 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I’ve just been on the castlefield viaduct for the first time in a while and it’s growing on me. Maybe it was the drizzle and mix of green and industrial architecture that lightened my mood. It could work as a connective route but is it a park. Lots for the National Trust to consider.
www.gov.scot/news/new-nat...
This is a really interesting outcome. Whilst conservation and landscape protection are critical there are always downsides. It’s good that they had a consultation and have listened - is a 54/46 split sufficient though to show deeper meanings regarding the environment?
This is a really interesting outcome. Whilst conservation and landscape protection are critical there are always downsides. It’s good that they had a consultation and have listened - is a 54/46 split sufficient though to show deeper meanings regarding the environment?
New National Park decision
No designation for Galloway and Ayrshire.
www.gov.scot
June 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
www.gov.scot/news/new-nat...
This is a really interesting outcome. Whilst conservation and landscape protection are critical there are always downsides. It’s good that they had a consultation and have listened - is a 54/46 split sufficient though to show deeper meanings regarding the environment?
This is a really interesting outcome. Whilst conservation and landscape protection are critical there are always downsides. It’s good that they had a consultation and have listened - is a 54/46 split sufficient though to show deeper meanings regarding the environment?
London has any number of flaws - housing, costs, jobs, wages but it does know how to do green infrastructure. Yes I know it’s high end GI but on a sunny day it looks splendid and is a nice walk to the Camley Street Nature Reserve.
The GLA have looked to maximise space I for nature and it works
The GLA have looked to maximise space I for nature and it works
June 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
London has any number of flaws - housing, costs, jobs, wages but it does know how to do green infrastructure. Yes I know it’s high end GI but on a sunny day it looks splendid and is a nice walk to the Camley Street Nature Reserve.
The GLA have looked to maximise space I for nature and it works
The GLA have looked to maximise space I for nature and it works
It’s now a month until the oasis gigs but the fences (and there are a lot of fences) won’t be taken down just to be put up again. So that’s 2 months of partial use. Also it’ll be very interesting to see if the city council enforce the remediation works to get the park back up to scratch…
Parklife has been in this weekend and it seems to have gone off without any problems. The whole thing though does place a lot of restrictions on residents (including me) so it’s good to see this fund in place. However, none of these project support those continuities around the park directly
June 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
It’s now a month until the oasis gigs but the fences (and there are a lot of fences) won’t be taken down just to be put up again. So that’s 2 months of partial use. Also it’ll be very interesting to see if the city council enforce the remediation works to get the park back up to scratch…