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Routes & Networks Manager @SustransNI Architect- Urban Designer @QUBelfast Climate & Biodiversity activist 🌡🌿 Aspiring painter 🎨
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined October 2018
Such a wonderful new experience working in this project with @WildBelfast & @wildlifeni 3 more living murals coming to life across Belfast between now and October👀🥰
Our first living mural @cliftonvillefc is live for the new season! This collaborative piece between ecologists and artists aims to create a functional mural that celebrates the clubs cultural and natural heritage and also provide a conservation intervention for house martins.
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Likewise habitat heterogeneity (lawn SOO yawn) caters for more diversity (and climate resilience!) 1) Native plants oxygenate pond and provide invert food source; 2) Rockerys provide niches for specialists and hibernacula; 3)Nectar richness adjacent ponds provides foraging...
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Continuing on with our #wilderparks campaign how could parks look with more thought for #biodiversity? 1) Wildflowers for adult pollenators and ecosystem services like flood mitigation; 2) Native shrubs providing heterogeneity for fruit eating birds and specialist insects;
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Belfast - our parks are NOT delivering for biodiversity. So we've started the "Wilder Parks" campaign to ask @Belfastcc to create more space for nature in our parks. We dived into our park management plans and uncovered that they are not performing for #wildlife, thread: 🧵⬇️
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If you're interested in designing and developping active travel infrastrcuture, here's an opportunity to join our Routes and Networks team in NI! @PlanQUB @PRD_UlsterUni @EnvironmentNI @CommunityNI
Join our team! We're recruiting a Network Development Officer. Apply at:
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The lovely @madsteranne today at her book reading accompanied by Lumiers band. Such a heart warming book reading and storytelling. Congrats Anne ♡ Her novel combining irish history and imagination here: https://t.co/pfBn0WZoIE
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This book just arrived and I can't be more excited to start reading it! Congrats @madsteranne , always inspired by my talented colleagues ♡
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Our next event is on the return of the murmuration to Albert Bridge. We'll watch the spectacle with @wildlifeni, discuss why / how it happens and the conservation that led to it's return. Ravenhill Rest, east Albert Bridge Sat 13th Jan 3:30pm Book here https://t.co/28YYBwWtvA
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Did you see the return of the starling murmuration to Belfast with @TVconormac on @rtenews and @LouiseMCullen on @BBCNewsNI? Come along to Albert Bridge this Sat 1530 to see the real thing with @wildlifeni, learn about murmurations and how starlings returned to Belfast's skies.
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Last week we launched the Eastern Transport Plan 2035 working alongside @ANBorough @ANDborough @belfastcc @lisburnccc @mea_bc If you live in those areas, you can have your say 💻 https://t.co/ImZnTtlzsP
#sustainability We asked @SustransNI about why ETP 2035 is so important
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It's this Saturday! If you're about the city centre, stop by @2RoyalAvenue and say hi 😊
SAVE-THE-DATE & come join me at the opening event of Wildstroke's first art exhibition 🥰 Let's enjoy Birds together, in their varying textures and colours, with some verses, music & (yes there will be) booze! Opening event: September 16 @2RoyalAvenue 2 to 6 pm. CAN'T WAIT!!!
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Great to see @SustransNI closing off Collingwood Ave for an afternoon. Showing how sections of roads can be opened up to the community. What a joy to watch! Join them and us at #OpenBotanic on Sunday 24th September in Botanic Avenue for more.
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If you're about the Holylands today, come and join us @SustransNI at our pop-up cyclelane at Colingwood Avenue and Carmel Street while we reimagine a safer street design for the area!
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We're delighted to be working with @atkinsglobal & @SustransNI to consider the placemaking dimensions of the new @deptinfra Eastern Transport Plan 2035 (NI). Great places need great connectivity. Please take the survey & share your transport priorities for the 5 Council areas.
Today we launch the Eastern Transport Plan 2035, working alongside @ANBorough @ANDborough @belfastcc @lisburnccc @mea_bc & we are asking residents in those areas to have their say The aim of ETP 2035 is to look to more sustainable modes of transport → https://t.co/ImZnTtlzsP 🚌
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Today we launch the Eastern Transport Plan 2035, working alongside @ANBorough @ANDborough @belfastcc @lisburnccc @mea_bc & we are asking residents in those areas to have their say The aim of ETP 2035 is to look to more sustainable modes of transport → https://t.co/ImZnTtlzsP 🚌
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SAVE-THE-DATE & come join me at the opening event of Wildstroke's first art exhibition 🥰 Let's enjoy Birds together, in their varying textures and colours, with some verses, music & (yes there will be) booze! Opening event: September 16 @2RoyalAvenue 2 to 6 pm. CAN'T WAIT!!!
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Great little example of transforming 'grey ways' into greenways 💚
A vision for transforming Whitworth St in Manchester UK into a pedestrianised boulevard with trees, planting, seating and a wide continuous bidirectional cycle track 🚲🌳🌿🛴
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Excellent transformation of #BankMoreSquare by @LinenQuarterBID formally opened by @ChrisMccracken_ Good to meet Noel from Obaro who landscaped this city centre space
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And if this isn't all exciting enough @OutdoorRecNI have published their exciting new map on publically accessible green spaces! Check it out💚 https://t.co/EvlR8c9yiO
‘‘Imagine a future where urban green spaces are key community assets, connecting people, enhancing nature & helping towns & cities adapt to climate change" This from @NationalTrustNI and @EnvironmentNI is right up our street 💚 But what is the future? https://t.co/hwqJiA7Goy
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