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Introduction Sustainable Development Evaluation and the Promotion and Preservation of Industrial Heritage are two sets of issues that are key to the contribution of successful revitalisation of brownfield sites. An EU Transnational partnership project called REVIT, funded by INTERREG IIIB, has researched these issues through the collaborative working of six participating partners from four different countries: Germany, France, Netherlands and UK. The result has been the development and sharing of new ways to approach sustainable development and industrial heritage and to capitalise on their contribution to regenerating different types of brownfield sites. Sustainable Development includes balancing environmental, economic and social needs within the context of brownfield site redevelopment. EU policy and legislation, driven by the Gothenburg Agenda, places obligations on developers to consider and mitigate the negative impacts of redeveloping brownfield sites through an evaluation of sustainable development indicators, setting targets and then taking the appropriate action to ensure that revitalisation meets minimum legal as well as social, economic and environmental obligations. The redevelopment of brownfield sites requires a full assessment of the environmental factors, such as the potential soil and water contamination as well as reviewing the ecology of the area. Remediation strategies and techniques can then be considered once a full understanding of a site is known. The cost of cleaning a site then has to be assessed against economic criteria based on the future use of the site and this in turn should be supported by a wide range of stakeholders. Thus the process of sustainable development is one of reviewing each stage in the process. This can be a daunting task and the difficulty is often the large number of sustainability indicators that are available to be chosen to assess a potential site. Research undertaken for the REVIT project has shown that each country - and even regions within different countries - has developed its own sets of sustainable indicators and targets. It was hoped that a common set of indicators could be applied to all brownfield site redevelopment at an EU level, however this has not proved possible. This is because each country has its own environmental legislation requirements and local policies, both influencing the choice of sustainable indicators. The REVIT project has however developed a methodology to evaluate sustainable development based on selecting an appropriate set 2
Dredging - Medway of indicators that are site specific, which takes account of local policies and legislation as well as wider spatial planning issues. This methodology is based on agreeing a vision for the site and then, through an appropriate stakeholder forum, selecting relevant sustainable targets, based on different scales of development, and applying these to the site. One of the components to the assessment of sustainable development is reviewing the former use of a site based on its social history, industrial or other uses, artefacts and buildings. The REVIT Demonstration Sites show that these components are important considerations as a site is often able to capitalize on reusing its former buildings to create a unique character in the future. In some cases industrial heritage may be protected and will need to be preserved. This takes specialist skills and experience. In other cases the distinct characteristic of a site can be successfully promoted, giving a new lease of life and helping to market a site whilst respecting its former use. In this publication you will find information on the research behind developing methodologies to evaluate and manage sustainable development issues on brownfield sites. In addition case studies will show the practical uses of these methods. 3
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