Houghton Le Spring, United Kingdom
City population: 271734
Duration: 2008 – 2008
Implementation status: Completed
Scale: Sub-microscale: Street scale (including buildings)
Project area: unknown
Type of area: Building
Last updated: October 2021

The Hetton Lyons Primary School's green roof is designed to evolve and flourish over the coming years, helping to combat a number of climate change issues facing the next generation. Aims were ecological benefits, providing a natural habitat for plants and wildlife while helping to reduce air and noise pollution, cutting carbon emissions and assisting with rainwater retention and attenuation (Ref 1).

Green roof at the Hetton Lyon Primary School
Barbour Product Search
https://www.barbourproductsearch.info/blackdown-extensive-green-roof-for-hetton-lyons-news043418.html

Overview

Nature-based solution

  • Nature on buildings (external)
  • Green roofs

Key challenges

  • Climate action for adaptation, resilience and mitigation (SDG 13)
  • Climate change mitigation
  • Water management (SDG 6)
  • Stormwater and rainfall management and storage
  • Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
  • Green space creation and/or management
  • Environmental quality
  • Air quality improvement
  • Noise reduction
  • Regeneration, land-use and urban development
  • Regulation of built environment

Focus

Creation of new green areas

Project objectives

1. Address climate change issues, 2. Provide natural habitat for plants and wildlife, 3. reduce air and noise pollution, 4. cut carbon emissions, 5. assist rainwater retention and attenuation, 6. create a Green sedum roof (Ref 1 and 4).

Implementation activities

The creation of a green roof on the school building. The roof is extensive and has a sedum cover. (Ref 4)

Climate-focused activities

Climate change mitigation:

  • Install vertical or horizontal artificial surfaces that help with carbon storage and cooling
  • Raise public awareness of behaviours, lifestyle and cultural changes with mitigation potential

Main beneficiaries

  • Public sector institution (e.g. school or hospital)
  • Other

Governance

Management set-up

  • Co-governance with government and non-government actors

Type of initiating organisation

  • Local government/municipality
  • Public sector institution

Participatory approaches/ community involvement

  • Unknown

Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project

The school was part of a major commitment from Sunderland City Council to reduce carbon emissions across all of its operations by the year 2012, but the project was lead by the school itself in cooperation with Alumasc company, that provided the green roof product package and technical support (Ref 1).

Project implemented in response to ...

... an EU policy or strategy? Unknown
... a national policy or strategy? Unknown
... a local policy or strategy? Yes (The intervention is part of the Sunderland City Council's Low Carbon Schools initiative (Ref 4) that was part of the City's Carbon Plan for 2007-2012 (Ref 6). )

Financing

Total cost

Unknown

Source(s) of funding

  • Public national budget
  • Public local authority budget

Type of funding

  • Earmarked public budget

Non-financial contribution

Unknown

Impacts and Monitoring

Environmental impacts

  • Climate change
  • Lowered local temperature
  • Enhanced carbon sequestration
  • Environmental quality
  • Improved air quality
  • Reduced noise exposure
  • Water management and blue areas
  • Improved stormwater management
  • Green space and habitat
  • Increased green space area
  • Reduced biodiversity loss

Economic impacts

  • Unknown

Socio-cultural impacts

  • Education
  • Increased awareness of NBS and their benefits

Type of reported impacts

Achieved impacts

Presence of formal monitoring system

Unknown

Presence of indicators used in reporting

No evidence in public records

Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports

No evidence in public records

Availability of a web-based monitoring tool

No

References

Ref 1: David Luukas (n.d.) Inspirational design plays a major part in successful BSF programme. Alumasc Roofing System. Retrieved from Source link on 10th November, 2020.
Ref 2: Source link (2013) Green Roof News - International Green Roof Association. Retrieved from Source link on 10th November, 2020.
Ref 3: HM Government. (2009). The UK low carbon transition plan: National strategy for climate and energy. [attached]
Ref 4: Sunderland City Council. (n.d.). Low carbon city - Sunderland City Council. Retrieved from Source link on 10th November, 2020.
Ref 5: International Green Roof Association. (2010). Green roof news. [attached]
Ref 6: Sunderland City Council. (2007). Sunderland City Council's Carbon Plan 2007-2012. [attached]
Ref 7: LocalGov. (2007). Sunderland to back £110M Building Schools for Future (BSF) programme. Retrieved from Source link on 10th November, 2020.