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Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: CABERNET Network Report

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Chapter 3: Summary Message<br />

• <strong>Brownfield</strong>s are a land use problem throughout Europe<br />

• Large areas of urban brownfields have been identified in the majority of EU<br />

countries<br />

• There is limited national data on the true extent of the problem<br />

• The characteristics of brownfield sites are well documented in most Member<br />

States, the impact of brownfields on urban systems is quite<br />

poorly understood<br />

• A number of trial studies have identified that only a small percentage of<br />

brownfield sites (predicted as

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