GP4Streets

Project title: GP4Streets - DIY Greening Prescription for Climate Adaptation in Urban Streets

Project duration: January 2025-June 2027

Funders:

• UKRI: National Environment Research Council
• Arts and Humanities Research Council
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• Economics and Social Research Council
• Medical Research Council
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Project leader for SPE: Professor Danielle Sinnett

Other UWE Bristol researchers:

• Professor Issy Bray, Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing
• Dr Yarden Woolf, Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing
• Dr Owen Cranshaw

Research partners/collaborators:

• University of Surrey (Principal Investigator Professor Prashant Kumar)
• University of Bath
• Imperial College London
• University of Sheffield
• Met Office

GP4Streets recognises that streets are the heart of our neighbourhoods, yet they are often the most deprived areas in terms of green-blue-grey infrastructure (GBGI). Our vision is to transform these urban spaces into resilient, sustainable environments through innovative, do-it-yourself (DIY) GBGI solutions. The project is led by the University of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) and aims to transform urban climate adaptation strategies through close collaboration with the King's Climate Adaptation Hub and several non-academic partners.

GP4Streets is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the Maximising UK Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) programme.

• Biswal, A., Sun, H., Bray, I., Kjeldsen, T., Cranshaw, O., Rodding Kjeldsen, T., Pain, C. C., Roberts, T., Sinnett, D., Wild, T., Wenk, J., & Kumar, P. (2026). Household driven and council managed street greening: Scoring cost, expertise, space, and cost-benefits of green infrastructure combinations. Sustainable Horizons, 17, 100165.
• Sun, H., Biswal, A., Bray, I., Cranshaw, O., Kjeldsen, T. R., Pain, C. C., Roberts, T., Sinnett, D., Wild, T., Wenk, J., & Kumar, P. (2026). Environmental and socio-ecological performance of greening at household and street level. Science of the Total Environment, 1014, 181336.

For more information about the project, please contact Professor Danielle Sinnett (danielle.sinnett@uwe.ac.uk) or Professor Issy Bray (issy.bray@uwe.ac.uk).