The GI Tool aims to be a practical and accessible website which provides specific guidelines to planners and developers on how to make appropriate provision for quality GI space both on-site and off-site within the framework of a GI Strategy for the Sub Region. The GI Tool is also aimed to assist community organisations to enable them to confirm that the overall environmental quality of the area is being maintained or enhanced and that any deficiencies in existing GI provision are being tackled. The GI Tool includes guidelines on meeting any deficiencies in the existing GI provision locally and for enhancing GI strategically within the Sub Region framework, for instance by plugging strategic gaps in GI, as part of development proposals. To enable focused planning, the indicative priorities for the different types of GI uses in different locations will be provided. Uses may encompass access routes, recreational open space, sport, landscape, historic environment, woodland planting, habitat creation to meet biodiversity targets, etc. The Tool therefore aims to directly facilitate the bringing forward of development sites by building public confidence and providing measurable evidence that these issues have been addressed to agreed local standards and within a strategic framework.