Green spaces
Our Green Infrastructure and Community Assets teams support biodiversity across both districts through large and small publicly accessible green spaces.
We have two country parks, Queen Hill’s Community Park and Broadland Country Park. We also manage a variety of countryside and amenity sites across the districts and commons and open spaces in South Norfolk. Through managing these sites we support local volunteer groups to encourage wider community engagement.
We have started re-wilding some of our amenity grassed areas to create areas for wild flowers and insects to thrive. There is more information about this scheme on the Wild East website.
We are also working in partnership with the Norfolk wildlife trust on their Claylands project.
How we are improving our sites
The Environment Act 2021 provides a legal foundation for reversing nature’s decline. A change in this legislation introduced a statutory target to halt species loss by 2030 and place a stronger duty on local authorities to drive action. In 2025, we had biodiversity baseline surveys conducted on 10 of our council-owned sites. These sites consisted of a mixture of woodland and amenity areas. From these baseline surveys, biodiversity improvement regimes were created for each site, which recommend actions to be carried out annually on the sites to achieve a 10% biodiversity uplift by 2030. Initial recommendations from the regimes are starting to be implemented across the sites where practical, with longer-term recommendations integrated into the sites’ management plans.
How are are improving our sites in BroadlandHow are are improving our sites in South Norfolk