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The Green Heart Partnership (GHP) is a six year initiative across the county of Hertfordshire which began in April 2004 and is project managed by Haring Woods Studio. It is a partnership between Arts Council England, East and the eleven local authorities of Hertfordshire that aims to bring together the arts and environment sectors and collaboratively achieve sustainable solutions for the public realm. From the outset, Haring Woods saw an opportunity to make a long term difference to the working processes of local government through GHP. Using Haring Woods' core methodology, GHP builds interdisciplinary teams with professionals from a range of departments and brings artists and creative professionals to the team to instigate a creative approach to solving problems and developing achievable action plans.
The Haring Woods team work with socially and politically motivated artists and teams of local authority officers to address issues and obstacles for the development, delivery and management of the public realm at the earliest possible stage. Many of the creative, innovative and high profile aspects of GHP’s projects may never have come to fruition without this effective partnership working process. It is often only through the creative and collaborative approach that crucial budget and time-saving opportunities for reallocating resources and sharing work-load are identified.
GHP has worked on a number of projects across Hertfordshire, including some county-wide initiatives. These have involved creative practitioners within local authority teams working to engage the community in a specific site, physically redevelop the public realm, or develop new local government policy about future public spaces. GHP has had a significant impact on the way that local authorities develop projects in general, and has resulted in more efficiency and closer working relationships across departments.
Read more about Green Heart Partnership projects below >>
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