Urban sustainability UK: Difference between revisions

This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Urban sustainability page for a topic overview.

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

Rainwater harvesting

UK homes using some form of rainwater harvesting system can reduce their mains water usage by 50% or more. ^W

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
• How to Create Streets: a communities' guide createstreets.com
• Green Infrastructure Valuation Toolkit, Green Infrastructure North West
• 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
• 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

Book reviews

'How to Save Town Centres' by Julian Dobson. Transition Network, March 31, 2015

Neighbourhood Planning

• Neighbourhood Planning, Planning Aid England
• Neighbourhood Planning, information from My Community
• Neighbourhood planning, Woodland Trust
• Crowd-sourced #NeighbourhoodPlanning Bibliography
• A Transition Guide to Neighbourhood Plans

Video

more video: 3Space - Turning Empty Space into an Opportunity on youtube

News and comment

2017

Southwark: Borough Market to phase out plastic bottle sales with free fountains, Aug 23 ^[1]

London news: The @MayorofLondon is aiming to make London one of the greenest cities on Earth, Aug 21 ^[2]

2016

Putting people in control of public land, Nov 2 ^[3]

Peers vote for new neighbourhood right of appeal, Apr 22 ^[4]

Neighbourhood Planning and Transition initiatives: an update. February 5 ^[5]

Community-led housing: top of the agenda! Jan 20 ^[6]

2015

It’s in all our interests to know who owns our land, and who benefits from it, September 28 ^[7]

Charity Sustrans unveil new modular street furniture system, September 21 ^[8]

Five Radical Ideas for a Better Planning System, April ^[9]

Atmos Totnes and the Power to Convene, January 22 ^[10]

2014

Our month on rethinking real estate: Why I’m proud to be a SWIMBY, October 2 ^[11]

Why I'm not a planner, nor proud of planning, May 23 ^[12]

2013

A Right to Build: Local homes for local people, March 14 ^[13]

New alliance calls for “Smart Growth” investment in cities, not more 1980s-style sprawl, February 21 ^[14]

See also

• local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
• Cycling UK
• Food UK
• Localism UK
• Road safety UK
• Rural sustainability UK
• Sharing UK
• Sustainable transport UK
• Understanding the need for new housing across England

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Rainwater harvesting in the United Kingdom, Town and country planning in the United Kingdom (category)

External links

• 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
• Community Land Trust Network
• CommuniTree
• 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

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