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Table 25.1 Seven principles of effective regeneration

Principle Comment

People matter - absolutely The link between environment and human health in its

broadest sense of well being requires local concerns to be
taken into account during the, potentially long term,
redevelopment phase

“Places for people” Design for people rather than minimum cost or maximum

return on investment

Having a shared Vision is
vital

Regeneration involves long time frames and often the price &
inconvenience is borne by one group or generation but the
benefits reaped by another

There is no I in team Regeneration is a complex sequence of processes and

involves many people who must work together towards a
common end

Build and they will come Doing nothing is not an option - merely a sure fire way of

things getting worse

Waste is a resource in the
wrong place

Creative thinking can reduce waste generation and turn
redundant materials and buildings into useful resources

Leaders serve others now
andinthefuture

The challenge to leaders is to ensure a servant attitude
towards those who will benefit from their efforts - in both
the medium and long term

are not necessarily relevant on every project or may have different relative impor-
tance in different projects they do form a useful core on to which a project specific
vision can be crystallised.

25.5 Re Concepts in Regeneration

Each English region has its own Regional Development Agency (RDA). Advantage
West Midlands (AWM) is the RDA for the area that includes England's second,
and now largely post industrial, city: Birmingham and its Black Country hinterland.
RegenWM is funded by AWM to promote and develop regeneration excellence in
the West Midlands (Regen 2009 ).
At a series of workshops on sustainable regeneration hosted by RegenWM - dele-
gates were invited to list as many words beginning with the prefix “re” that had some
re levance to Brownfield re mediation, re clamation, re development and re generation.
Does the difference between these terms matter - not re ally, does it? Well, as the
old adage goes, if you don't know where you are going, how will you know when
you have got there? Or even know that you are on the right path?
Remediation, as parts of this topic ably explain, involves demonstrably breaking
the source-pathway-receptor contaminant linkage, 1 thereby reducing risks to below
a predetermined level (Nathanail and Bardos 2004 ).

1 This topic uses the term “contaminant linkage” to refer to the combination of source-pathway-
receptor coned by the UK and termed a pollutant linkage. For ease of cross reference and
consistency this chapter has adopted the term 'contaminant linkage' but it is not a term widely
found in the literature.