Housing associations, private house-builders, local authorities and regeneration agencies are increasingly prevailed upon to plan for and build 'sustainable communities'.

This guide has been developed to help everyone involved in regeneration, house-building, place-making and the creation of new settlements and communities to think and act more sustainably.

It suggests that the disciplines that help to create excellent places and communities correspond well with those required for environmental protection; that the disciplines required to reduce social division and unfairness coincide with those needed to eliminate environmental injustice.

The guide is aimed at strategists and practitioners responsible for investing billions of pounds of public money to help create attractive places and homes where people will want to live for generations to come, in ways which offer best value for money over their full life and have lest impact upon local and global environments.

The guide focuses on key issues and concepts in the long term process of sustainability and promotes the principal disciplines that will enable a more strategic and holistic approach to the implementation of these.

Principles cover:

Key issues and recommended actions are reported for each separate principle within the guide. The authors argue that if partners in regeneration and development consciously and carefully work through each of the seven principles suggested, they will give the planned development a better chance of meeting the proper expectations and standards of sustainability.

Housing Corporation
Phone: +44 0845 230 7000
enquiries@housingcorp.gsx.gov.uk

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Beyond Green, Jonathan Smales, David Copeland, Chris Watts, Joanna Yarrow, Dan Epstein

research

Urban Policy > Urban environment

Environmental sustainability