MainStreet Consulting has been commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage  to undertake research into the opportunities to support better delivery and maintenance of Green Infrastructure in social housing in Scotland. 

Green Infrastructure is defined as the use of greenspaces and any vegetated land or water to deliver benefits for people and nature.   It includes parks, open spaces, playing fields, woodlands, wetlands, floodplains, road verges, allotments and other growing spaces, private gardens, green roofs, green walls as well as blue infrastructure such as sustainable drainage systems, ponds, swales, rain-gardens, wetlands, rivers and canals. 

We’d like you to contribute to our research by completing a short questionnaire.  This should take about 8 minutes to complete and will be live until Friday 27 October 2017.  If there is any information that you provide that should be kept anonymous or confidential, please state this within your response. 
 
If you have any questions about the survey or would like to be involved in the research please contact Janice Flanagan (janice@mainstreetconsulting.co.uk, 07445 106100) or Mark McLintock (mark@mainstreetconsulting.co.uk, 07805 540999).  Thanks very much.

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* 1. Please complete your contact information:

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* 2. How would you describe your level of understanding of what Green Infrastructure is?

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* 3. How would you describe your level of awareness of the benefits of Green Infrastructure?

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* 4. Has your organisation included Green Infrastructure in any developments/refurbishments?

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* 5. If you answered 'no' to Question 4, why did you not include Green Infrastructure in your developments/refurbishments?

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* 6. Generally, at what stages of your delivery process for a new or retrofit social housing development project do you consider including Green Infrastructure? (Please select as many answers as appropriate)

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* 7. How would you describe your level of awareness of organisations that can provide information or guidance on Green Infrastructure?

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* 8. Where do you go to seek information or guidance on GI? (e.g. specific organisations, websites or publications.)

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* 9. In terms of the level of existing Green Infrastructure guidance, do you feel there is:

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* 10. In general, how would you describe the level of demand from tenants for new / better Green Infrastructure?

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* 11. What barriers have you encountered when considering Green Infrastructure in your developments? (Please select as many answers as appropriate)

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* 12. Do you consider any of your schemes demonstrate best practice in incorporating Green Infrastructure into a scheme to deliver a range of benefits?

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* 13. If you would be interested in attending a workshop (in November 2017) to find out more about this research, and identify how your organisation could benefit from Green Infrastructure, please rank the following locations according to your preference (rank up to four locations based on their convenience to you with a 1 representing your first choice):

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