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The PURE Guidebook on Planning with water

Introduction

PURE North Sea is a EU project, which started in 2002 and lasted for four years. Led by the Province of Groningen, partners from England, Sweden and the Netherlands set up and realised a great number of projects in those four years.

Description

Flooding and water quality problems are not just incidents that ask for cure, but they are structural shortcomings in the industrial and urban landscape that ask for prevention. This asks for giving water a more leading role in spatial planning. According to this guidebook a good planning process should be based on the “four C’s”:
• concept (that integrates flow, area and actor aspects);
• contact (between the different actors);
• contracts (to conclude the decision-making process);
• and continuity (as a good planning process should demonstrate).

EU involvement

The project is partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Contact info

PURE Secretariat

Publication date

01/02/2006

Cities

The North Sea area: Groningen, Deventer, Goteborg and the North East of the United Kingdom.

Links

The PURE North Sea project on EUKN The Province of Groningen, the lead partner (in Dutch)

The PURE Guidebook on planning with water (PDF, Eng, 3.4 MB)

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy > Urban environment > Urban renewal

Keywords

Waterside development