UKGBC Radical Approaches to Regeneration and Development
After a 6-month process from Autumn 2020 to Spring 2021 with Enfield Council, Climate-KIC and over 100 industry stakeholders, UKGBC launched a playbook to support local authorities in driving sustainability on large-scale regeneration projects. The Bristol Housing Festival was delighted to work closely with Futureground to help compile elements of the report and case studies.
Exploring 3 key opportunity areas, the playbook takes the form of a ‘living’ Miro board. It is a collaborative resource designed to be used and adapted for any local authority wanting to play a proactive role, with their partners, in raising sustainability ambitions of major regeneration schemes.
BACKGROUND
We face a complex mix of environmental, social and economic challenges - crises even - including climate, ecology, health, quality of life, inequality and all within the the context of the damage wrought by COVID.
Many local authorities are trying to leverage their unique position, rooted in the communities they serve and with influence over land, planning, procurement and more, to use new high quality, sustainable development and placemaking to help tackle these multiple crises.
Between Autumn 2020 and Spring 2021, UKGBC, supported by EIT Climate-KIC, partnered with Enfield Council to bring the Foreground programme to Meridian Water. Foreground is a programme designed to utilise UKGBC’s diverse network in support of local authorities and their built environment partners, to help deliver the best possible sustainability outcomes from strategically significant development and regeneration projects.
The Foreground programme enabled exploration of a number of promising opportunities, analysing not ‘what’ innovative and leading sustainability practice looks like for major new development schemes, but ‘how’ to deliver it. It has been a mixing pot for radical thinking intended to unlock positive economic, social and environmental outcomes and enable a genuinely regenerative place.
For the start, the intention was to generate outputs from the programme that had relevance beyond Enfield, to support knowledge-sharing across local authority or public sector clients and be widely applicable to private sector clients as well.
The result is a ‘living’ Miro board - a tool designed to be used, edited adapted and evolved. It is intended to act as an ongoing playbook, curated by UKGBC, and providing help and inspiration for any local authority wanting to play a pro-active role in raising the ambition of major regeneration schemes. The board included many case studies, including many of our projects.
