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Stage two

Green belt design

We design a belt that satisfies the area requirement and actually attenuates pollution — multi-tier, permeable, aligned to the prevailing wind, and planted with species suited to your agro-climatic zone and pollutant load.

The problem this solves

A green belt that meets the percentage on paper can still fail its purpose. The most common error is planting a dense, solid screen: a belt that acts as a wall deflects the plume up and over it instead of capturing anything. Species chosen for availability rather than tolerance die, and a belt with a poor survival rate is a compliance problem as well as an environmental one.

What you get

  • Layout drawing with the belt located as close as practical to the pollution source
  • Multi-tier structure — canopy trees, mid-height shrubs, ground cover
  • Species schedule matched to your agro-climatic zone, with pollution tolerance noted
  • A mix of evergreen and deciduous so the belt works year-round
  • Alignment perpendicular to the predominant wind direction
  • Planting density and phasing, with an indicative bill of quantities

What a belt looks like on the ground

Percentages tell you how much to plant. These are the numbers that tell you how to set it out — taken from filed plans, and arithmetically self-consistent. They describe real schemes at real sites, not a national standard.

Peripheral shelterbelt

Rows
3, staggered
Within a row
5 m
Between rows
2.5 m
Per kilometre
600 tall plants

Pit preparation

Standard pit
45 × 45 × 45 cm
Poor soil
60 × 60 × 60 cm
Manure
2.5 kg well-decomposed farmyard manure or sewage sludge
Fill before planting
5–10 days before planting

Corridor widths seen in filed plans

  • Safety zone along a mining lease boundaryRuns the full perimeter and counts toward the green belt area.7.5 m
  • Either side of a railway line crossing the lease68.28 ha in this scheme — the single largest component of the belt.105 m
  • Green belt around an industrial unit boundaryAs specified in a filed plan for a chemical unit at GIDC-Dahej, Gujarat.10–20 m

Sources: Wildlife Conservation Plan, India Cements Limited, Coromandel Limestone Mine, Chilamkur, Andhra Pradesh — Chapter 6; Green belt development plan, Jeevan Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., GIDC-Dahej, Gujarat.

What this does not cover

  • We do not supply landscape architecture for ornamental or amenity planting

The rest of the practice

Tell us about your site and we will tell you whether this is the stage you actually need.

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