Green Roofs

Mr. Dai Davies
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what research her Department and its predecessors have sponsored into green roofs since May 1997.

Angela E. Smith
I am not aware of any research that the Department and its predecessor Departments have sponsored into green roofs since May 1997. However I understand that English Nature carried out studies into green roofs in 2002-03 “Green Roofs: their existing status and potential for conserving biodiversity in urban areas”—English Nature Report 498. A copy of the report can be found on their website at:

http://www.english-nature.org.uk/news/news photo/Greenroofs.pdf