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Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration:CABERNET Network Report6Involving and Qualifying People:Brownfield Management, Skills and CP6.1 The Role of CP in Brownfield RegenerationThe value of citizen participation in decision-making (CP) is relatively well established,however, CP has a long way to go before it can be regarded as mainstream practicefor brownfield regeneration. CP has a particular relevance and importance forbrownfields :• The restructuring of Europe’s industry has lead both to abandoned, damagedland and to abandoned, damaged communities⁶⁶. The processes of finding anew future and perhaps a new identity for such land and communities mustgo hand in hand if regeneration is to be legitimate and truly sustainable• Brownfield regeneration can greatly affect those who live or work nearby.These people are therefore key stakeholders and have much to contributeto developing regeneration strategies. Accommodating local perspectivescan result in win-win regeneration solutions as local communities can have astrong positive impact and local objectors can adversely impactdevelopment• Brownfields are commonly associated with issues of contamination (real orperceived) and associated risk to public health. Local people will thereforehave a particular interest in the proper management of this risk• Brownfield regeneration presents a major opportunity for contributing tothe imperative of sustainable development. One of the central tenets ofsustainable development is putting local people at the heart ofdecision-making. Recent reviews of successful projects have shownthat brownfield regeneration that fails to adequately engage with localpeople is not sustainable brownfield regeneration, and carries a muchgreater risk of failure⁶⁷Tackling brownfields is commonly regarded as the domain of technical specialists,engineers and developers, and the potential for achieving sustainable quality of lifeimprovements for local people is usually not the starting point for determining theway forward. Brownfield regeneration must shift from being predominantly a ‘site’based endeavour, aiming for specific physical outputs, to an activity that is ‘people’based with the process of engaging with all stakeholders given a comparable level ofconsideration as the physical outputs themselves.⁶⁶ CLARINET 2002 Working Group 1 Report: Brownfields. www.clarinet.at⁶⁷ Learning from Experience. The BURA Guide to Achieving Effective and Lasting Regeneration. Office of Deputy PrimeMinister , BURA, London 2002; Mainstreaming sustainable regeneration – a call to action. UK Sustainable DevelopmentCommission. December 2003. www.sd-commission.gov.uk103
6.1Achieving this shift will require action on a number of fronts. One important actionwill be the implementation by EU Member States of recent (2003) Directives forpromoting public participation in environmental matters. In addition, action mustalso cover professional training, changes to public sector funding regimes, muchbetter dissemination of existing policy and good practice, and targeting newevaluative research. Above all, mainstreaming CP best practice will involve significantcultural shifts among many professionals. The necessary changes will require strongchampioning and committed leadership at European, national and local deliverylevels.There are enormous opportunities to be grasped in securing positive brownfieldregeneration outcomes through investing in quality CP. Equally, and particularlyin the context of an enlarged European Union, there is huge potential for tacklingbrownfields in an entirely inappropriate manner unless the “people and places”approach advocated in this paper is adopted by practitioners and politicians alike.In conclusion, a number of key recommendations relating to CP and brownfieldregeneration can be made:• The UN/ECE Aarhus Convention and associated national interpretationaldocumentation, along with associated EU directives, all need a muchhigher profile. Championing and disseminating this work by national andregional governments must be a priority. The associated developmentof national legislation in response to the Directives must encompass CP andbrownfields• New European policy on brownfields must avoid the danger of being overlyfocused on the issues of contamination or tackling technical issues.While these matters are extremely significant, even more fundamental areissues surrounding how brownfield regeneration can improve thequality of life for local people, not only through the end product ofregeneration (built infrastructure, community green space, etc), butequally through the process of CP. Only by seriously engaging withCP processes can quality and truly sustainable brownfield regeneration beachieved• Funding policy or guidance for brownfield regeneration should properlyvalue and cost CP processes, so that this vital activity can be properlyresourced. Even if the cost of getting the CP process right represents a highproportion of total expenditure, this may be money well spent• There is a need for training among all brownfield practitioners, includingthose making brownfield-related decisions at a political level, to cover CP. Afuller and broader understanding of the subject’s significance wouldaid its greater acceptance in mainstream regeneration. Appropriate trainingcourses or modules should be developed for this purpose• More CP process experts are required, particularly in those parts of Europewhere their role is uncommon or unknown. Appropriate training withaccreditation should be supported and developed104
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