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