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

Name of the tool
The Neighbourhood Checklist: Community 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: INVESTORS CHECKLIST

Specific topic
This checklist develops the principles of healthy neighbourhoods at the level of a specific site or project within the neighbourhood – for example a mixed – use renewal scheme, a new retail outlet or a new housing development. The checklist is intended to assist people making decisions about developments, assessing the extent to which a specific project, or alternative development options, fufils health and sustainability criteria.
The checklist should be used by socially responsible developers and by anyone else evaluating the local impact of a development. It is linked to the established instrument of environmental impact anaylysis, extending the scope so as to include health and sustainability criteria more explicity.

Sector/s of use

Waste

Energy

Water

Transport

Green/Blue

Building & Land use

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1

1

1

1

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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