Public Green Space

Green space is undeveloped land, not necessarily provided for formal recreation or public amenity, which makes a positive visual and environmental contribution to the town. Green space in the urban environment occurs in a variety of forms: • public parks and ornamental gardens associated with, and intrinsic to, the setting and form of Cheltenham; • grounds of large houses, institutions, commercial and educational properties; • public and private playing fields; • incidental open spaces associated with the layout of planned housing (and industrial) estates; • children’s play space in residential areas; • allotments; • private gardens; and • various other open spaces, including land incidental to the laying out of roads, footpaths and cycleways