Cllr Mark Anderson, inset, is asking BCP residents to contribute ideas towards the Green Infrastructure Strategy. Pictures by Echo Camera Club Dorset members Suzanne Singleton, Peter Hadfield, Zoe Smithland and Clive Metcalfe THE future of parks and green spaces across the conurbation is up for discussion. Residents in the BCP Council area are being asked to help shape a plan on what they would like to see done with parks, woodland, beaches, gardens, street trees, rivers and streams. All of these areas will be included in the local authority s first ever Green Infrastructure Strategy (GIS). The strategy will look out how green infrastructure is used and designed going forwards.
When car company Mitsubishi closed its assembly plant in Tonsley south of Adelaide in 2008, more than 1,000 jobs were lost. But a transformation has taken place. Now Tonsley has become an innovation precinct for science and technology companies with labs, workshops, and common areas to encourage collaboration. Peter Hadfield reports from the Tonsley Innovation District where more than 1,700 people are now employed.