Blue Green City Of The Future

Living With Water, flood protection and community.

Hello! This week we’re off to Hull to discover how the Living With Water partnership is protecting people from floods in Hull and working with the community to build a “blue green city of the future.” 

We’re joined by two key members of the partnership’s team – Lee Pitcher and Andrew Barron – who share insights into the challenges and triumphs of flood mitigation and adaptation in one of the UK’s most at-risk areas. 

Listen in to hear how personal experiences of homelessness and the destruction that flooding can bring, led to our speakers’ shared passion for this project. Learn how the people of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire are collaborating and co-creating to turn the threat of too much water into an opportunity to improve and develop green spaces within the area. Be inspired by a project which spans generations and focuses on working with nature, rather than fighting it. 

“For us, it’s important to highlight that the Living With Water partnership is about so much more than infrastructure and engineering. We’re going into communities and talking to them about their ideas, and we’re finding people are really engaged and are coming up with solutions we haven’t even thought of. So this partnership is about co-creating and working together to build a city that is not only more resilient to flooding, but is a better, healthier place to live and work.”  – Lee Pitcher, General Manager, Living With Water Partnership.