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Functions of the environmental profile change with the planning process Project phase Role environment Function environmental profile Relation spatial development process Initiation phase (reconnaissance) ■ Global inventory and environmental analysis ■ Defining of weighting and research questions ■ Research questions ■ Inclusion in brief ■ Inclusion in brief of points of departure Definition phase (programme of demands) ■ Analysis: environmental research ■ Determine environmental criteria, preconditions and targets ■ Presentation of environmental analysis: relevant quality criteria, basic qualities and goals from the environmental point of view ■ Inclusion criteria in programme of demands ■ Follow-up activities feasibility quality criteria Design/vision phase (architectural, development plan, master plan) ■ Co-ordinating and weighing up: input of environmental targets into the integral planning process ■ Attractive presentation of the environmental profile and crucial environmental accents for further development ■ Inspire involved parties ■ Work out design, vision ■ Inclusion of profile in vision of spatial development product Determination phase (zoning plan, project decision, agreement) ■ Supplying components spatial development basis, environmental paragraph and regulations ■ Starting point for legal arrangements and elucidation in spatial development plan, project agreement ■ Embedding as far as desirable and possible in spatial development product ■ Elucidation in spatial development product Realization phase (building plan, organizational plan) ■ Supervision and monitoring of environmental quality of building ■ Profile building criteria (GPR building) ■ Continuation of GPR criteria in building plans User phase (management programme, park management) ■ Monitoring environmental quality of area, maintenance ■ Description quality objectives for management programme ■ Inclusion in management product Parts of the environmental profile are building blocks for subsequent spatial development products, such as the programme demands, master plan, zoning plan, project agreement and building plan. This process helps to reinforce the cohesion of the environmental input throughout the planning phases as the various parties pass on the responsibility to each other (such as urban developer to architect, contractor and consumer). This requires consultation at an early stage between the project leader and the representative from the Environmental Department regarding the input of the environmental profile and the activities, defined responsibilities and arising costs. 16
Determining Environmental Goals Factors for developing a suitable environmental profile for a project include: a) The actual and the desired type of living/working environment The functional spatial development characteristics of an area, such as the functions and degree of mixed use, the density, the user-intensity and accessibility, affect the opportunities and restrictions for achieving environmental objectives. The correlation between area characteristics and quality aspects can be found in area profiles. To determine the actual and desired living/working environments, the municipal urban planning policy, together with the economic and housing policies, offers points of departure and descriptions. For example, Tilburg introduced housing profiles in its WoonVisie 2002. Furthermore, these areas of policy focus increasingly on qualitative objectives in respect of safety, sustainability, etc. Through careful consultation it is possible to make relatively easy links between these different profiles. b) Location-specific circumstances The traffic and transport network, the water system and the natural assets of an area to a large extent decide the direction of sustainable spatial development. In this respect environmental issues play a crucial role in determining the type of transformation that can be expected. An environmental profile focuses not only on the quality of the area but looks also at its future in the context of the city plan. The strategy of making optimum use of the road network, for example, entails making intensive use of transport junctions, by condensing the surrounding areas with (large) urban environments, which, in turn, require good accessibility. The downside is greater noise pollution. The application of the ‘layer approach’ helps to make the characteristics of the subsoil, the infrastructure and the human usage clear and coherent. This type of analysis is carried out in many municipalities in the context of a structural vision on spatial development. Other environmental characteristics in the area may also be essential for the desired living/working environment, such as largescale soil pollution (from former gas plants, refuse dumps, etc.) or location near a regional industrial estate, motorway, etc. Infrastructure is co-determinant for environmental profile (Source: Ruimtelijke structuurvisie 2020, municipality of Tilburg) The Ministry for Housing, Regional Development and the Environment introduced the ‘layer approach’ in the Fifth Memorandum on Regional Development in 2000. It is a method of spatial development analysis that presents the spatial development reality in three layers: the physical substratum (soil structure and water system), the infrastructural networks and the occupation pattern (human usage). The aim is to be able to make a careful spatial development appraisal by taking into account the differences in the rate of change of the various layers. Soil and water, for example, have a very long history of development and are vulnerable, which means that the substratum should be strongly determinant for new spatial development. Layer approach 17
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