Appendix 3: Summary of projects against evidence base
This Appendix matches each of the Strategic Projects identified within the Focus Area Profiles to each of the 6 Key GBI Opportunities identified for Cherwell. This ensures that the projects identified are multi-functional (an important principle of GBI interventions) and are clearly linked to the challenges identified for Cherwell’s GBI network through the development of this Strategy.
| Focus Area | Strategic project | KO1: Flood risk | KO2: Restoring rivers | KO3: Green towns | KO4: Expand woodlands | KO5: Walking, cycling, wheeling | KO6: Green space and biodiversity |
| Wider Banbury Area | Green corridor connections | X | X | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Restoring the Cherwell river corridor | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Greening the Salt Way | X | X | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Greening Banbury town centre | X | X | Y | X | Y | Y | |
| Wider Bicester Area | Connecting Bicester’s greenways | X | X | Y | X | Y | Y |
| Greening Bicester town centre | Y | X | Y | X | Y | Y | |
| Bicester’s green wedges | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Restoring Bicester’s river corridors | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Wider Kidlington Area | Expanding and enhancing Kidlington’s network of footpaths and trails | X | X | Y | X | Y | Y |
| Enhancing the Oxford Canal and River Cherwell blue corridors | Y | Y | Y | Y | X | Y | |
| New and enhanced access points to the canal and river | X | Y | Y | X | Y | X | |
| Greening Kidlington village centre and improving walkability | X | X | Y | X | Y | Y | |
| Mid-Cherwell River Corridor | A River Cherwell Waterway Park | Y | Y | X | Y | Y | Y |
| Bernwood, Otmoor and Ray Regional Area | Landscape-scale Area | Y | Y | X | Y | X | Y |