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Sustainabilty Evaluation Process for Brownfield Sites Brownfield sites generally have a bad press regarding their status within the realms of urban development. This is not without foundation. Brownfield sites are often associated with: high risks of development, including contaminated land and ground water; structural problems with land and buildings; high costs of remediation and development; and a poor perception amongst local stakeholders. If this is not sufficient to quell enthusiasm for renewing brownfield sites, then the length of time, planning issues, and funding opportunities for reuse, present further obstacles. This series of pessimistic outlooks can be viewed differently with a more optimistic approach, i.e. that brownfield sites present opportunities to realise sustainable development improvements and thus they can have a positive impact on the environment, local or regional economy and the social capital of previously blighted areas. This positive approach however, requires credible improvements to be made over the long term, which can be quoted, verified and marketed with confidence. This in turn requires a method of establishing a sustainable development status baseline together with an evaluation system and a way of measuring improvements. Rochester Riverside - Regeneration Researching, developing and applying a common set of sustainable development indicators and an evaluation process to the development of brownfield sites has been one of the ambitions of the REVIT project. Initial research reviewed the legal and institutional frameworks that set the context for sustainable development in each partner country; i.e. what are the key drivers and policy issues? The results of this research show that it is not possible to develop a common set of sustainable development indicators and targets for brownfield sites across the EU. The reason for this is that each country - and even regions within countries - has distinct policies, legislation and approaches to sustainable development, which may have many common characteristics but also have unique requirements that cannot be universally applied. The REVIT project has thus developed a methodology that can apply sustainable development principles to individual sites, through an iterative and integrated approach, where both EU and local targets to improve the status of the environment, economic and social well-being are continually assessed and addressed. Nantes Regeneration 4
The Sustainability Evaluation Process The process of sustainability evaluation requires two main elements: ■ Sustainability objectives, against which project parameters are weighted ■ A methodology, which sets targets, measures and shows if, and/or how sustainable development issues have been addressed within a project. The Sustainability Evaluation Process developed by the REVIT project and illustrated in the flow diagram below shows at its apex three interconnected elements: the site, its context and its vision. GENERAL CONTEXT SUSTAINABLE SITE LOCATION • Sustainability Assessment & Integration Procedure Selection • relevant specific key-data requirements PROJECT VISION PROJECT CONTEXT PROJECT OBJECTIVES • EIA • is SEA required? • is Master Plan required? • do Sustainable Building standards apply? SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT & INTEGRATION objective-specific analysis, prioritisation and weighing evaluation REVISED SUSTAINABLE PROJECT OBJECTIVES PROJECT SCOPE PROJECT TARGETS & INDICATORS MANAGEMENT PLAN AUDIT 5
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