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Left Illustrative masterplan diagram showing proposed development at Hackbridge project provided many useful examples of both strategic and local adaptation measures, particularly green space measures dealing with exposure to high temperatures and the urban heat island effect. Initial data-gathering for the Assessment Tool, together with the SWOT (strengths-weaknessesopportunities-threats) analysis of Sutton’s situation, undertaken by the Council at the outset of the GRaBS project, provided the basis for preparing a ‘Study of Climate Change Impacts’ affecting Sutton in September 2010. This constituted the evidence base to support and justify the Council’s emerging LDF policies on flood risk management and climate change adaptation. It was also hoped that the interactive Assessment Tool would assist in the process of engaging with the local community on climate change issues in September-November 2010. However, in the event, data/mapping licensing difficulties inhibited its use for consultation, and the Council is now developing a similar interactive ‘Community Map’ on its own website to enable all stakeholders to access climate change information. Sutton’s Climate Change AAP consists of a Borough Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (in GRaBS terms, the High-Level Policy Statement) and a Climate Change AAP for the Hackbridge neighbourhood. The Borough Adaptation Strategy was published in draft form in July 2010 for public consultation, taking account of TCPA guidance, current best practice among GRaBS partners, and adaptation strategies produced elsewhere. The finalised Strategy contains a clear corporate statement of the need for action and puts forward an adaptation Vision for the Borough. This Vision is to be delivered by gaining a better understanding of the future challenges faced by Sutton; by building adaptive capacity through partnership working, enhanced community engagement and better decisionmaking; and by delivering a number of key outputs, including the Borough Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, the Hackbridge AAP, and LDF policies soundly based on green and blue space adaptation principles. The Strategy also sets out a range of adaptation principles dealing specifically with heatwaves and high temperatures, flooding, water resources and maintaining habitats and biodiversity in the face of a changing climate. These principles form the basis for the Council’s LDF policies on flood risk management and climate change adaptation, which indicate the Council’s intention to work with developers and their agents to promote these adaptation measures at the area-wide, neighbourhood and building scales. 284 Town & Country Planning June 2011 : GRaBS Project – INTERREG IVC; ERDF-funded
Left Workshop session using the ‘board game’ during consultations within Hackbridge As a first stage in preparing the Hackbridge AAP, the Council commissioned consultants BACA Architects and Global to Local, respectively, to produce Blue and Green Infrastructure Toolkits in September 2010, detailing the range of adaptation measures that might be applied in relation to the development or management of blue and green spaces within Hackbridge. The Blue Infrastructure Toolkit considered opportunity sites identified as proposed allocations for development in Hackbridge in the LDF, and set out design guidance on managing flood risk by ‘making space for water’ as part of proposals for flood-resilient development. This work built on an earlier Defra-funded study on ‘Long-term Initiatives for Flood-risk Environments’ (LifE), which included ‘The next step should be a further EU project covering the implementation and management of climate change adaptation measures, in order to build on the successes achieved through GRaBS and to realise the opportunities for adaptation’ Hackbridge as a case study example of an uppercatchment location. The Toolkit took account of the impact of both river (fluvial) and surface water (pluvial) flooding on opportunity sites, based on the latest modelling data and updated flood risk zones released by the Environment Agency in August 2010 and on new modelling data on surface water flood risk areas researched on behalf of the Council by Scott Wilson as part of the Surface Water Management Plan for Sutton. One interesting spin-off from the LifE approach used for the Blue Infrastructure Toolkit was the development of a ‘board game’ which enabled community groups to become directly involved in the planning and design of development on a fictional site affected by fluvial/pluvial flooding as part of the consultation programme. The Green Infrastructure Toolkit identified local parks, open spaces, and green corridors within the Wandle Valley Regional Park close to Hackbridge, as designated in Sutton’s Core Strategy, and put forward a range of landscape improvement, townscape design and planting proposals appropriate for the future management of such green spaces to take account of the impacts of climate change. In as much as there was limited first-hand knowledge of the adaptation responses to the effects of exposure to high temperatures, the experience of visiting partner towns and cities was invaluable in putting the Green Infrastructure Toolkit together. In particular, the Toolkit was informed by good practice witnessed on: ● a tour of a residential refurbishment/regeneration scheme in Augustenborg, Malmö, incorporating retro-fit housing with sustainability features, together with flood risk management and landscape improvement measures, and a visit to the Green Roof Institute, Malmö, dealing with the technical specifications/construction of green roofs; ● a visit to the ‘inner courtyards’ in Graz, dealing with the conservation and revitalisation of green Town & Country Planning June 2011 : GRaBS Project – INTERREG IVC; ERDF-funded 285
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