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Guidance on Sustainable land use and urban design on

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brownfield sites Workpackage 4 - Deliverable D 4.1

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RESCUE consortium Land Quality Management Group

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Table of contents

Table of figures 2

List of members of RESCUE work package 4: 7

1. INTRODUCTION 10

1.1 Land use and urban design on brownfield sites in the context of sustainable urban development

1.2 Definitions 11

1.3 Contributors to this report 12

1.4 Objectives of work package 4 13

1.5 Objectives of this report 14

1.6 Intended audience of this report 15

1.7 Structure of this report 15

2. METHODOLOGY 18

3. SUSTAINABILITY OBJECTIVES AND INDICATORS 22

Objective 4.1: To promote land use functions that match regional socio-economic demands and

needs 22

Objective 4.2: To integrate the reuse of brownfield sites into a regional land management 23

Objective 4.3: To integrate the reuse of brownfield sites into the urban development 24

Objective 4.4: To achieve benefits and prevent adverse impacts on the local neighbourhood 25

Objective 4.5: To generate and safeguard employment and economic development 26

Objective 4.6: To promote land use functions that suit the natural and man-made environment of

the site and its neighbourhood 27

Objective 4.7: To save resources 27

Objective 4.8: Permeability 28

Objective 4.9: To provide adequate access 29

Objective 4.10: To achieve high design quality 29

Objective 4.11: To create and maintain flexibility and flexible urban design 30

4. EVALUATION OF COUNTRY APPROACHES BASED ON COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS TABLES

Objectives 4.1: To promote land use functions that match regional socio-economic demands and

needs & 4.2: To

integrate the reuse of brownfield sites into a regional land management 33

Objective 4.3: To integrate the reuse of brownfield sites into urban development 34

Objectives 4.4: To encourage benefits and avoid detriments for the local neighbourhood 35

4.6: To promote land use functions that suit the natural and man-made environment of sites and its

neighbourhood 35

Objective 4.5: To generate and safeguard employment and economic development 36

Objective 4.7: To save resources 37

Objective 4.8: Permeability 38

Objective 4.9: To provide adequate access 39

Objective 4.10: To achieve a high design quality 39

Objective 4.11: To create and maintain flexibility, flexible design 40

5. GOOD/BEST PRACTICE DISCUSSION 42

5.1 Introduction 42

5.2 Overview of practices 43

5.3 Discussion of the practices 48

6. RECOMMENDATIONS AND TOOLS 54

6.1. Introduction 54

6.2. Overview Table: Index of tools and recommendations 56

6.3. Discussion of the recommendations and tools 64

6.4. PRESENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND TOOLS 68

Overall tools (not objective specific): 68

4.0.0 Project structure plan 68

4.0.1 Road map for sustainable brownfield regeneration 70

Objective 4.1: To promote land use functions that match the regional socio-economic demands and

needs 72

4.1.1 Project Vision 73

4.1.2 Checklist of topics that should be addressed in regional planning documents and development

strategies 76

4.1.3 Use related checklist 80

4.1.4 Market analysis 83

External tools 86

Objective 4.2: To integrate the reuse of brownfield sites into a regional land management 90

4.2.1 Classification of brownfield sites within one portfolio according to their development

perspectives - ABC-model 91

4.2.2 Site passport 94

External tools 96

Objective 4.3: To integrate the reuse of brownfield sites into the urban development 97

4.3.1 Land use concept 98

External tools 100

Objective 4.4: To achieve benefits for and prevent adverse impacts on the neighbourhood 103

4.4.1 Integrated spatial concept 104

4.4.2 Checklist of benefits, synergies and adverse impacts for the local neighbourhood 106

External tools 108

Objective 4.5: To generate and safeguard employment and economic development 110

4.5.1 Brownfield related Regional Economic Strategy 111

4.5.2 Qualification concepts and initiatives as accompanying instruments in brownfield projects 113

External tools 114

Objective 4.6: To promote land use functions that suit the natural and man-made environment of

the site and its neighbourhood 116

4.6.1 Site analysis process 117

4.6.2 Site analysis - checklist of objectives and components 119

4.6.3 Record of natural and anthropogenic features of the site and its surroundings and integrated

potential and restriction analysis 122

4.6.4 Geographic Information System (GIS) - Landmap as an example of GIS application 125

External tools 128

Objective 4.7: To save resources 130

4.7.1 Techniques for Saving Water 131

4.7.2 Techniques for saving land and building resources 134

4.7.3 Techniques for saving energy resources 137

4.7.4 Guideline / Handbook for sustainable construction 142

4.7.5 Ecohomes: The environmental rating for homes 142

4.7.6 A developers guide to Environmentally smart buildings 144

(Good Practice Guide Number 258) 144

External tools 145

Objective 4.8: To connect different city districts - permeability 149

4.8.1 Green Belt tool-plan 150

4.8.2 A specific connection plan for brownfield sites 152

Objective 4.9: To provide adequate access 154

4.9.1 Integrated traffic concept (incl. utilities concept) 155

External tools 158

Objective 4.10: To achieve high design quality 160

4.10.1 Multidisciplinary workshop 161

4.10.2 Competition 163

4.10.3 Urban design concept 165

4.10.4 Landscape concept 168

4.10.5 A methodology for sustainable landscape (SULIS) 170

4.10.6 Local advisory committee for urban design 172

External tools 173

Objective 4.11: To create and maintain flexibility, flexible construction forms and urban design 175

4.11.1 Phasing concept 176

External tools 177

7. CONCLUSIONS 179

Annex I: EU/National/Regional background

Annex II: Questionnaire

Annex III: Project profiles and decision charts

Annex IV: Indicators

Annex V: Sustainability cross check

Annex VI: Compilation of good, best, promising good, promising best practices

Annex VII: Results of the tools transferability check

Annex VIII: List of interviews

Annex IX: List of references