Ensuring Sustainability in Brownfield Revitalisation as PDF
Ensuring Sustainability in Brownfield Revitalisation as PDF Ensuring Sustainability in Brownfield Revitalisation as PDF
Environmental Profile Process The Municipality of Tilburg, one of the REVIT Partners, has developed three different tools that integrate environmental themes into spatial plans. These are: Introduction The Environmental Profile Process; the sustainable building tool [Gemeentelijke Praktijk Richtlijn - (GPR)]; and the Industrial Estate Atlas. This report describes the key aspects of the Environmental Profile Process. This method complements the REVIT Sustainability Evaluation Process since it proposes a methodology for agreeing and deciding the weighting of sustainable development issues of a proposed development. The way in which this is done is that the Municipality of Tilburg draws up an appropriate environmental profile per project to ensure that these are integrated into the overall environmental spatial development planning and building strategies for the region. This methodology ensures that all relevant stakeholders are engaged in redevelopment proposals and that ambitions for improved sustainable development are constantly addressed. In this respect, Tilburg takes into account the environmental characteristics, the (future) use and the market factors for an area under development. The appropriate environmental profile provides the parties with the opportunities for new thinking and a framework of assessment for the project. The following describes the motivation, positioning and components of the environmental profile and its application in a renovation project in Tilburg. Environmental Profile Process Based on article written by Mr. R.J.W. Rothengatter (RLoC, Amsterdam, www.rloc.nl) 12
The Municipality of Tilburg has to use the scarce space in the city to its maximum efficiency. Under the motto ‘city of contrasts’ the municipality aims to make Background better use of the city’s qualities and at the same time restrict the pressure of urbanisation on the outlying areas. According to the ‘Ruimtelijke Structuurvisie Tilburg 2020’ (structural vision on spatial development), parts of the city will be transformed into varied and sustainable neighbourhoods in the next few years. The transformation will result in more spacious neighbourhoods that are greener and include water as a key feature. The vision also foresees that in specific locations the city will have areas of higher density. These developments offer great opportunities, but also hold a number of threats for the quality of the local environment. An integral approach is essential for achieving desired environmental quality. On the one hand there is a need to tackle redevelopment pragmatically, and on the other, to prevent new environmental risks and threats as a result of development. Redevelopment typically begins with the formulation of redevelopment plans. Here choices have to be made to maximise the opportunities for environmental improvements from the planning process to implementation. Tilburg is supported by the national government as it has given the municipality more responsibility to agree its own quality criteria for local Future home and work environments in Tilburg environment issues. The national environmental (Source: Ruimtelijke structuurvisie 2020, municipality of Tilburg, 2004) standards only safeguard minimum levels of attainment in the fields of environment and public health. Without differentiation at local level there is the risk of standardisation where a minimum level of quality is maintained and where unnecessary or basic standards may be applied too rigidly, with the result that the desired spatial development does not take place. In this respect the solution is an area-oriented approach that is ‘custom designed’. Tilburg responded by developing an instrument that will support environmental policy in spatial development projects from the very beginning of the planning process. In the last few years, the municipality has drawn up an environmental profile for every major (re)development location. With the help of this profile higher environmental project targets can be identified. In this way the municipality-wide desire for sustainable regional development has been translated into concrete environmental goals at an area level and with buildings using the GPR tool. This takes into account that the accent in terms of environmental quality differs from neighbourhood to neighbourhood and even from street to street. 13
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The Municipality of Tilburg h<strong>as</strong> to use the scarce<br />
space <strong>in</strong> the city to its maximum efficiency. Under the<br />
motto ‘city of contr<strong>as</strong>ts’ the municipality aims to make<br />
Background<br />
better use of the city’s qualities and at the same time<br />
restrict the pressure of urbanisation on the outly<strong>in</strong>g<br />
are<strong>as</strong>. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to the ‘Ruimtelijke Structuurvisie<br />
Tilburg 2020’ (structural vision on spatial development),<br />
parts of the city will be transformed <strong>in</strong>to varied and susta<strong>in</strong>able<br />
neighbourhoods <strong>in</strong> the next few years. The transformation will result <strong>in</strong><br />
more spacious neighbourhoods that are greener and <strong>in</strong>clude water <strong>as</strong> a key<br />
feature. The vision also foresees that <strong>in</strong> specific locations the city will have<br />
are<strong>as</strong> of higher density. These developments offer great opportunities, but<br />
also hold a number of threats for the quality of the local environment.<br />
An <strong>in</strong>tegral approach is essential for achiev<strong>in</strong>g<br />
desired environmental quality. On the one hand<br />
there is a need to tackle redevelopment<br />
pragmatically, and on the other, to prevent new<br />
environmental risks and threats <strong>as</strong> a result of<br />
development. Redevelopment typically beg<strong>in</strong>s with<br />
the formulation of redevelopment plans. Here<br />
choices have to be made to maximise the<br />
opportunities for environmental improvements<br />
from the plann<strong>in</strong>g process to implementation.<br />
Tilburg is supported by the national government<br />
<strong>as</strong> it h<strong>as</strong> given the municipality more responsibility<br />
to agree its own quality criteria for local<br />
Future home and work environments <strong>in</strong> Tilburg<br />
environment issues. The national environmental (Source: Ruimtelijke structuurvisie 2020, municipality of Tilburg, 2004)<br />
standards only safeguard m<strong>in</strong>imum levels of<br />
atta<strong>in</strong>ment <strong>in</strong> the fields of environment and public health. Without<br />
differentiation at local level there is the risk of standardisation where a<br />
m<strong>in</strong>imum level of quality is ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed and where unnecessary or b<strong>as</strong>ic<br />
standards may be applied too rigidly, with the result that the desired<br />
spatial development does not take place. In this respect the solution is an<br />
area-oriented approach that is ‘custom designed’.<br />
Tilburg responded by develop<strong>in</strong>g an <strong>in</strong>strument that will support<br />
environmental policy <strong>in</strong> spatial development projects from the very<br />
beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g of the plann<strong>in</strong>g process. In the l<strong>as</strong>t few years, the municipality<br />
h<strong>as</strong> drawn up an environmental profile for every major (re)development<br />
location. With the help of this profile higher environmental project targets<br />
can be identified. In this way the municipality-wide desire for susta<strong>in</strong>able<br />
regional development h<strong>as</strong> been translated <strong>in</strong>to concrete environmental<br />
goals at an area level and with build<strong>in</strong>gs us<strong>in</strong>g the GPR tool. This takes <strong>in</strong>to<br />
account that the accent <strong>in</strong> terms of environmental quality differs from<br />
neighbourhood to neighbourhood and even from street to street.<br />
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