Energy
Waste
Water and Sewage
Transport
Green Blue
Buildings & land use
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Tool summary

Name of the tool
The Neighbourhood Checklist: Investors Checklist; Shaping Neighbourhood, A guide for health, sustainability and vitality

Description of the tool
This neighbourhood guide is designed as a desktop manual for planners, designers, developers and community groups. It provides an integrated picture of sustainable, healthy neighbourhoods, with a wealth of specific detail that can help local decision-makers, and people who are concerned about those decisions, get to grips with the issues.
The guide is concerned with how the planning, design and management of the physical environment can enhance quality of life, promote social inclusion and husband natural resources.
Within the guide can be found two checklists/appraisals – in chapter 2 The Neighbourhood Checklist (Community Checklist and Investors Checklist) and in chapter 3.8 The Neighbourhood Appraisal. The community checklist provides a quick test of the overall health of a neighbourhood, while the investors’ checklist provides criteria for judging the local impact of development proposal. This checklist is for THE NEIGHBOURHOOD CHECKLIST: COMMUNITY CHECKLIST

Specific topic
The checklist is concerned with the health and sustainability of a neighbourhood, township or small town. This section deals with the neighbourhood decision-making process that might be appropriate for the preparation of a local community strategy or spatial framework. Subsequent sections then work through the substantive issues, generally following the ordering of the guide, starting with people and community and ending with design.

The community checklist is intended for:
• community groups evaluation the current situation in their town or neighbourhood
• local councillors concerned with establishing partnerships and appropriate policy frameworks
• local planners trying to set a neighbourhood agenda, or compare different localities, or prepare a spatial framework
• community alliances wishing themselves to promote and be involved in a neighbourhood plan.

Sector/s of use

Waste

Energy

Water

Transport

Green/Blue

Building & Land use

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1

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1

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1

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component

Building

Neighbourhood

City

Region

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1

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