Heat stress
Key Findings
The new park did not significantly alter site-wide air temperatures when compared to baseline conditions, but where hard paving was replaced by grassed areas, ground temperature was reduced by up to 24°C.
Downloadable Datasets for Manchester’s West Gorton GrowGreen project
Find out more about the West Gorton ‘Sponge’ Park GrowGreen project
For more information on GrowGreen results please contact James Rothwell at The University of Manchester James.Rothwell@manchester.ac.uk
