1. General information
Location and description of the intervention
City or FUA
Stockholm
Region
Europe
Native title of the NBS intervention
Hagastaden – Norra Stationsparken
Short description of the intervention
Reconstruction is occurring in the Norra Stationsområdet area in the City of Stockholm, creating the city district Hagastaden (Haga City). In Haga City, an elongated hourglass-shaped park will be created called The Northern Station Park (sv. Norra Stationsparken). The park will run through the northern inner city from Torsplan and Hagaplan in the west to Norrtull in the east, and it is one of Stockholm's largest park initiatives. The first part of the new Norra Stationsparken in Hagastaden was to be inaugurated in September 2019 and the rest of the park is expected to be completed in 2024 (Ref. 1, 2, 8, 9).

Address

Stockholm
Sweden

Location
The NBS is situated in an area, with clear delineation of boundaries and a specific shape (polygon). The NBS project can also have more than one area location (more than one polygon, situated close by).
Area boundary
POINT (18.031914 59.347134)
POINT (18.03039 59.347922)
POINT (18.03966 59.350843)
POINT (18.040905 59.349618)
NBS area image
Source of NBS area image
https://norrastationsgatan.se/nyheter/vara-gronomraden
Total area
20000.00m²
Type of area before implementation of the NBS
Central Business District / City Centre
Website of the intervention
http://vaxer.stockholm.se/omraden/norrmalm-hagastaden/parker-och-grona-strak/
Timeline of intervention
Start date of the intervention (planning process)
2007
Start date of intervention (implementation process)
2019
End date of the intervention
2024
Present stage of the intervention
Ongoing
Please specify "other" stage of the intervention
Decisions on a common vision for the area "Vision 2025" was taken in the year 2007 (the whole district, i.e. Hagastaden).
2010-2025 is the estimated construction/bulding time for the entire project (for the whole of Hagastaden).
The construction start for the park itself is envisioned for the year 2021 and should be finalized in 2024.
(Ref. 1,2)
Goals of the intervention
The goals are to create a park which gives greenery and open space areas near the residential areas. The plan is to install walk paths, water mirrors (sv. vattenspeglar) playgrounds, dining and serving areas. The plan is to create a meeting area for recreational opportunities. (Ref. 3)
Quantitative targets
The whole park will be held a kilometre long and 2 hectares in size (Ref 2, 8)
The first part of the park will be about 90 meters long and 22 meters wide, containing about 30 trees as well as bamboo and climbing plants.
Monitoring indicators defined
Unknown.
Sustainability challenge(s) addressed
Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
Green space creation and/or management
Health and well-being (SDG 3)
Enabling opportunities for physical activity
Creation of opportunities for recreation
Implementation activities
Playgrounds and restaurants will be installed (for recreational opportunities), walking path, trees will frame the park and a bicycle bridge is also planned. (Ref. 2, 9)
When the whole "the Haga City" project is final, around 6000 new housing and 50 000 jobs will be accommodated in the district and the Northern Station Park (Norra stationsparken). (Ref. 2)
Type of NBS project
Creation of new green areas
NBS domain and interventions
Ecological domain(s) where the NBS intervention(s) is/are implemented
Parks and urban forests
Large urban parks or forests
Vegetation Type
Trees
Flower beds
Other
Please specify how many trees were planted
30 so far in the first phase.
Amenities offered by the NBS
Benches and drinking water stations
Playgrounds
Sports areas and equipment
Educational or biodiversity trails
Services
Expected ecosystem services delivered
Habitat and supporting services
Habitats for species
Cultural services
Recreation
Mental and physical health and wellbeing
Scale
Spatial scale
Micro-scale: District/neighbourhood level
Beneficiaries
Primary Beneficiaries
Local government/Municipality
Citizens or community groups
Please specify other local relevant strategy
The city of Stockholm's Environmental plan
Governance
Governance arrangements
Co-governance with government and non-government actors
Non-government actors
Public sector institution (e.g. school or hospital)
Non-governmental organisation (NGO) / Civil society / Churches
Private sector/Corporate/Business
Researchers, university
Please specify the roles of the specific government and non-government actor groups involved in the initiative
Stockholm City, Solna City, New Karolinska Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Akademiska Hus, Locum, Trafikverket, Stockholm Science City Foundation, and a number of private builders are in the process of creating Hagastaden (this regards the whole 'Hagastaden/Haga City' project). (Ref. 4)
Key actors - initiating organization
Local government/municipality
Land owners
Public space owned by the city
Key actors - Other stakeholders involved (besides initiating actors)
Local government/municipality
Public sector institution
Non-government organisation/civil society
Private sector/corporate actor/company
Researchers/university
Land owners
Public space owned by the city
Participatory methods/forms of community involvement used
Unknown
Policy drivers
NBS intervention implemented in response to an Regional Directive/Strategy
Unknown
NBS intervention implemented in response to a national regulations/strategy/plan
Unknown
NBS intervention implemented in response to a local regulation/strategy/plan
Yes
Please specify the "local regulation/strategy/plan"
Is included in the "Vision 2030" for the City of Stockholm, which concerns Stockholm as a growing city and Hagastaden is an important part of the city's work (Ref. 5)
Mandatory or voluntary intervention
Mandatory (based on policy)
Intervention is mandatory
Spatial planning guidance
Enablers
Presence of specific city-level GI/NBS vision/strategy/plan - mentioned in connection to the project
Yes
Please specify
The city of Stockholm's Environmental plan (which mentions GI through goals such as good access to nature and parks and viable green structure). (Ref. 7)
Presence of specific city-level GI/NBS section/part in a more general plan - mentioned in connection to the project
Yes
Please specify the general plan with GI/NBS section
Is included in the "Vision 2030" for the City of Stockholm, which concerns Stockholm as a growing city and Hagastaden is an important part of the city's work (Ref. 5)
If there is a relevant strategy or plan, please specify the theme / type of the plan.
General municipal plan
Other
Please specify other vegetation type
About 30 trees, as well as bamboo and climbing plants, are planted in the first phase. Examples of trees that are planted are Japanese magnolia, silver maple and ornamental cherries. Flowers such as imperial crowns, lilies of the valley and lieutenant's heart are also planted. (Ref 8)
Presence of city network or regional partnerships focused on NBS - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
Presence of GI / NBS research project - mentioned in connection to the project
Yes
Please specify
In and around Hagastaden there is a large concentration of research and entrepreneurship in life science, a collective term for science aimed at improving life and health. (Ref. 5)
Subsidies/investment for GI / NBS in the city - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
Co-finance for NBS
Unknown
Co-financing governance arrangements
Unknown
Was this co-governance arrangement already in place, or was it set up specifically for this NBS?
Unknown
Financing
Total cost
Unknown
What is/was the Cost/Budget (EUR) of the NBS or green infrastructure elements?
Unknown
What are the total amount of expected annual maintenance costs?
Unknown
What is the expected annual maintenance costs of the NBS or GI elements?
Unknown
Please specify cost savings
Unknown
Please specify total cost (EUR)
Unknown
Source(s) of funding
Public local authority budget
Type of fund(s) used
Unknown
Non-financial contribution
Unknown
Business models
Green densification model
Which of the involved actors was motivated by this model?
Public actor (e.g. municipality)
Type of innovation
Social
Cultural innovation
Please specify social innovation
The park will be used for meeting places, creating open areas (i.e. for recreational opportunities). (Ref 1, 3)
Novelty level of the innovation
Ambiguous (e.g. multiple interpretations)
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
Hammarby Sjöstad is mentioned as a role model in the Hagastaden vision for 2025. (Ref. 1)
Replicability/Transferability
Unknown
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
The first phase was expected to open in 2019 and the park will be completed in 2024 so the transferability is unknown (Ref. 9)
Impacts, benefits
Environmental impacts
Green space and habitat
Increased green space area
Description of environmental benefits
The park will be around 2 hectares and connect Stockholm and Solna. A variety of trees are planned for planting and that is evident from the diversity of trees and flowers in the first phase that is about 90m by 22m. (Ref 8, 9)
Economic impacts
Unknown
Description of economic benefits
Unknown
Social and cultural impacts
Health and wellbeing
Improved physical health
Gain in activities for recreation and exercise
Description of social and cultural benefits
The park will have playgrounds for children, biking bridge, and walking paths, water mirrors (sv. vattenspeglar), dining and serving areas and a meeting area for recreational opportunities. (Ref. 3, 8, 9)
Type of reported impacts
Expected impacts
Indicators
Unknown
Environmental, social and economic impacts
Unknown
Analysis of specific impact categories
Job creation: The NBS created ...
No information available
Negative impacts: Did the project cause any problems or concerns?
No information was found regarding negative impacts of the project
COVID-19 pandemic
Unknown as of August of 2020.
Methods of impact monitoring
Process of recording NBS impacts
No evidence in public records
Methods used to evaluate the impacts of NBS
Unknown
Evidence for use of assessment
Presence of an assessment, evaluation and/or monitoring process
Unknown
Presence of indicators used in reporting
No evidence in public records
Presence of monitoring/evaluation reports
No evidence in public records
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
Impact assessment mechanism
Name of any specific impact assessment tools
Unknown.
Use of GIS in mapping impacts
No
Citizen involvement
Citizens involvement in assessment/evaluation
Unknown
Citizens involvement in the analysis of the assessment/evaluation
Unknown
Follow-up to the evaluation / assessment
Unknown
References
Web links relevant to the intervention
Ref. 1
Ref. 2
Ref. 3
Ref. 4
Ref. 5
Ref. 6
Ref. 7
Ref. 8
Ref. 9
List of references
Ref. 1. Stockholms Stad (n.d.) Parker och gröna stråk. Hagastade, Stockholm. Information obtained: 2017-06-09. Source: http://vaxer.stockholm.se/omraden/norrmalm-hagastaden/parker-och-grona-strak/ [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 2. Stockholms Stad (2017) Hagastaden - en vetenskapsstad för liv och hälsa. Exploateringskontoret, Stockholm. Source: https://vaxer.stockholm/globalassets/omraden/-stadsutvecklingsomraden/hagastaden/broschyrer-och-dokument/exko003_folder_hagastaden_revidering_2018_sfs.pdf [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 3. Hagastaden (n.d.) Parker och grönområden. Stockholm life. Information obtained: 2017-06-09. Source: http://vaxer.stockholm.se/omraden/norrmalm-hagastaden/ [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 4. Stockholms Stad (n.d.) Hagastaden. Stockholm Växer. Information obtained: 2017-06-09. Source: http://vaxer.stockholm.se/omraden/norrmalm-hagastaden/ [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 5. Stockholm Stad (n.d.) Hagastaden. Vision 2030 Stockholm - en växande stad. Broschyr. Infromation obtained: 2017-06-09. Source: https://international.stockholm.se/globalassets/hagastaden_eng.pdf [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 6. Stockholms Stad (2016) Överenskommelser med Solna kommun och Stockholms läns landsting avseende kommungränsjustering mellan Solna kommun och Stockholms kommun inom Hagastaden. Exploateringskontoret, Stockholm. Source: https://insynsverige.se/documentHandler.ashx?did=1867785 [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 7. Stockholms Stad (n.d.) Hållbar mark- och vattenanvändning. Miljöprogram 2016-2019. Information obtained: 2017-06-15. Source: http://miljobarometern.stockholm.se/miljomal/miljoprogram-2016-2019/hallbar-mark-och-vattenanvandning/ [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 8. Vasastan Direkt (2019) Snart får Hagastaden sin första park. Source: https://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/snart-far-hagastaden-sin-forsta-park/repsfl!ziK7JffFl7epHXtaFLsZIQ/ [Accessed 24 August 2020]
Ref. 9. Norra Stationsgatan (2018) Våra grönområden. Source:https://norrastationsgatan.se/nyheter/vara-gronomraden [Accessed on 24 August 2020]
Comments and notes
Comments
4/financing: The funding types are unknown (the project being planned to start in 2021). Investments will come from e.g. the city of Stockholm, more details when the Detailed plan (sv. Detaljplanen) is finalized between 2017-2019. (Ref. 6)
Public Images
Expected Aerial view of Norra Stationparken
https://norrastationsgatan.se/nyheter/vara-gronomraden
Expected layout of Norra Stationparken
https://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/snart-far-hagastaden-sin-forsta-park/repsfl!ziK7JffFl7epHXtaFLsZIQ/