Urban sustainability UK
This article focuses on information specific to the United Kingdom. Please see our Urban sustainability page for a topic overview.
Resources
Book reviews
'How to Save Town Centres' by Julian Dobson. Transition Network, March 31, 2015
How to's
- How to Create Streets: a communities' guide createstreets.com
- How to CREATE STRETS - a councillors' guide, createstreets.com
- HowToPopUp, Empty Shops wiki
- How To Get Planning Permission on Non-Development Land, Permaculture Magazine, 2012
- Local Sustainable Homes, How to Make Them Happen in Your Community, Chris Bird, October 2010
Maps
Other resources
- 100 ways to help the high street, information from the Local Government Association
- Cheap (potentially free) to build & free to run houses, Permaculture Magazine, 2013
- Collaborative Planning for All guide published by Civic Voice with support from JTP
- Green Infrastructure Valuation Toolkit, Green Infrastructure North West
- Permeable surfacing of front gardens: guidance, information from Gov.uk
- Planning Aid provides free urban and environmental planning advice to individuals and community groups who cannot afford to pay a professional consultant, via a number of charitable organisations throughout the UK. W
- Spinwatch report on lobbying & abuses in planning, Anna Minton, March 2013 (PDF)
- Susdrain, Free interactive community supporting the delivery of sustainable drainage (managed by CIRIA) W
- Ten simple ways to make your street a safe and green place to live, sustrans.org.uk
Video
more video:
Invest in Green Infrastructure on youtube
3Space - Turning Empty Space into an Opportunity on youtube
News and comment
see separate article: Urban sustainability UK news
Neighbourhood Planning
- Neighbourhood planning in a climate emergency, cse.org.uk, Feb 2020, added 16:30, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- Low Carbon Neighbourhood Planning
Since 2012, (and as of Sep 2017) over 2,200 groups have started the neighbourhood planning process, covering areas of nearly 12 million people across England. Over 400 successful neighbourhood planning referendums have now taken place, with an average ‘yes’ vote of 88%. [1]
- Neighbourhood Planning, Planning Aid England
- Neighbourhood Planning, information from My Community
- Affordable and community-led housing, information from My Community
- Neighbourhood planning, Woodland Trust
- Crowd-sourced #NeighbourhoodPlanning Bibliography
- A Transition Guide to Neighbourhood Plans
Rainwater harvesting
UK homes using some form of rainwater harvesting system can reduce their mains water usage by 50% or more. W
Campaigns
- Empty Homes, works to help people create homes from empty properties and campaigns for more empty homes to be brought into use for the benefit of those in housing need. W
See also
- Community resources UK
- Cycling UK
- Food UK
- Localism UK
- Road safety UK
- Rural sustainability UK
- Sharing UK
- Sustainable transport UK
- Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
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External links
- Wikipedia: Rainwater harvesting in the United Kingdom, Town and country planning in the United Kingdom (category)
- 3space
- Association for Environment Conscious Building, network for sustainable building professionals in the United Kingdom. Membership of the AECB includes local authorities, housing associations, builders, architects, designers, consultants and manufacturers. The Association was Founded in 1989 to increase awareness within the construction industry of the need to respect, protect, preserve and enhance the environment and to develop, share and promote best practice in environmentally sustainable building. W
- Centre for Accessible Environments
- Cittaslow UK
- Civic Voice
- CommuniTree
- Create Streets
- Empty Shops Network
- Landscape Institute W
- livingroofs.org
- National Custom & Self Build Association
- NOVUS/Public Planners
- PublicRealm.org, create elegant, practical, safe streets
- Town and Country Planning Association, independent charity which campaigns for the reform of the UK’s planning system to make it more responsive to people’s needs and aspirations and to promote sustainable development. Representing the views of membership organisations and individuals from local authorities, planning academics and practitioners under the policy guidance of its Policy Council, the TCPA claims to put social justice and the environment at the heart of policy debate and aims to inspire government, industry and campaigners to take a fresh perspective on major issues. W
Self-build
- BuildHUB, social network aimed at the self-build community
References
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