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Incorporating sustainable development into redevelopment.
- Source :
- Sustainable Development; Aug2003, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p171-182, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- Recent UK Government strategies and planning policies have embraced the principle of sustainable development, presenting this as a framework for future planning and land-use decisions. This paper will review those policies that emphasize the need to re-use previously developed land. Resulting from these policies is a need for local authorities, in particular, to adopt a sequential testing approach in terms of land-use decisions. We evaluated the sequential testing approaches advocated, examining how they equate with the assessment of indicators of sustainable development. Current sequential testing approaches tend to evaluate over-arching considerations within the planning framework and do not necessarily assess site-specific characteristics. This paper argues that if optimum adherence to the principle of sustainable development in land-use decisions is desired, the pre-determination of end-use should be ended or at least minimized since it does not facilitate sustainable development. It is suggested that in order to achieve sustainable development in land-use decisions, a sequential approach to determine end-use, based on those characteristics exhibited by the site is necessary. Therefore, there is also a need for a mechanism that can assess whether the development decision has reached an optimum choice concerning sustainable development. The paper concludes by proposing that a framework for expressing site characteristics as elements of sustainable development is needed to enable best possible sustainable land-use decisions. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09680802
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sustainable Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17198545
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.215