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Green Belt India

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

For ornamental, campus and amenity landscaping, Garden & Acre plans and maintains it.

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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