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Capitalising on the historic landscape - an introduction to historic characterisation for masterplanning *NEW*
Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and English Heritage
Shows why Historic Characterisation should be used to inform masterplanning; outlines how it fits with wider policy and guidance; summarises three pilot studies, and gives an outline of the benefits of the Historic Characterisation approach.
Home improvements - a sustainability guide
Scottish Building Standards Agency
For people who are thinking of making some changes to their home, but want to reduce their impact on the environment - and save money on running costs.
Creating and sustaining mixed income communities in Scotland: a good practice guide
Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland, Joseph Rowntree Foundation - supported by the Scottish Centre for Regeneration and the Town and Country Planning Association 2007
How to create attractive and well-managed places that meet the needs of all sections of the community:
- Discusses the arguments for mixed communities
- Explores good practice in assembling a vision, understanding the neighbourhood profile, strong leadership, and investment partnering arrangements, the procurement process, and achieving integrated neighbourhoods
- Discusses development and design tools, different types of tenure mixing, social and environmental sustainability, viability and risk management.
- Investigates good practice in delivering partnership and participation, community involvement, management approaches and wider structures for partnership and participation.
Capacity Check: urban design skills appraisal
Urban Design Skills 2008
A method of appraising urban design skills to help professionals to free themselves from their silos; politicians to become effective champions of design; communities to be empowered; students to learn how to work in an urban context; and landowners and developers to discover the value of making places.
Creating successful masterplans: a guide for clients
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)
Step-by-step guide to commissioning and producing a masterplan and how it can contribute to achieving better designed places, buildings and public spaces. Examines the design process, including what to expect from a masterplan and how to evaluate it.
Good housing leads to good health: a toolkit for environmental health practitioners
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health 2008
Toolkit to help local housing managers and others understand the links between housing and health. Provides a methodology for demonstrating health impacts and case studies indicating the links between private sector housing and public health. Looks at the use of health impact assessments (HIAs) to demonstrate the impact of housing intervention measures on wider health benefits.
Health impact assessment of greenspace: a guide
Greenspace Scotland
How to conduct a health impact assessment (HIA) of greenspace, including greenspace policies, strategies, plans, frameworks, programmes or projects.
Community cohesion and housing: a good practice guide
Housing Corporation 2008 (now part of the Homes and Communities Agency)
Toolkit aimed at housing providers and the residents with whom they work, with particular emphasis that "local areas themselves can play a role in forging cohesive and resilient communities." Populated by many practical examples of where this is already happening.
The Building Futures Game: developing shared visions for neighbourhoods
Building Futures team, CABE and AOC. 2008
A participation tool for visioning and exploring possible futures for a local area. Form of scenario planning, helping groups 'play out' a range of possible futures with participants - a mix of policy-makers, service-providers and 'community members' - drawing out a set of concerns and aspirations and considering the impacts and implications of their choices.
Placeshaping: A toolkit for Urban Community Land Trusts
Community Finance Solutions, University of Salford
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have the potential to play a major role in managing urban change. Drawing on the experience of urban pilots, as well as other existing trusts, brings together information for anyone planning to establish a CLT. Explains the policy framework, gives examples of working projects, and sets out techniques that can turn a bright idea and the determination of local people into a practical success.
The IMAGE Project: new tools for neighbourhood regeneration
The IMAGE project involved partners from five northwest European countries sharing experiences in regeneration and tackling the problem of poor image. Contains three toolkits developed and tested by the IMAGE project looking at Integrated Regeneration Process; Neighbourhood Branding; and Self-Evaluation. Draws together conclusions from three years of European cooperation on enhancing the image of high-rise neighbourhoods.
Regeneration Guide
4ps
Guidance on the main processes and features that underpin successful regeneration projects. Discusses the attributes that local government has to benefit regeneration activities, including the planning system, statutory powers and resources. Considers some core areas involved in the move from procurement into delivery and operation.
SUSSET Tookit
Produced with findings from EU INTERREG IIIC and collaboration by SUSSET (Sustainable Small Towns Strategy) partners, advises small towns across on 'coping strategies' for the first quarter of the 21st century. Small towns are important places to work, live and visit and they play vital roles in the quest for 'territorial cohesion' across Europe, as well as the pursuit of 'sustainable development'.
Inspire East Excellence Framework
Guidance on achieving excellence in sustainable communities in the East of England. Based on eight components which are required in order to plan, deliver and maintain sustainable communities: social and cultural, governance, transport and connectivity, services, environmental, equity, economy, and housing and built environment. For each, there is a checklist of basic considerations projects should address.