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Incorporating sustainable development into redevelopment
Author(s) -
Alker Sandra,
McDonald Adrian
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
sustainable development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.115
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1099-1719
pISSN - 0968-0802
DOI - 10.1002/sd.215
Subject(s) - sustainable development , redevelopment , order (exchange) , land use , environmental planning , government (linguistics) , land use planning , business , environmental resource management , sustainability , environmental economics , process management , risk analysis (engineering) , computer science , management science , economics , engineering , political science , civil engineering , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , environmental science , finance , law , biology
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.