The document discusses the benefits of sustainability and regeneration projects. It defines sustainability as meeting present needs without compromising future generations' needs. Benefits of sustainability include regenerating deprived areas, reducing crime, including green spaces, and promoting community involvement. Regeneration can specifically reduce crime, create green spaces, improve quality of life, attract wealth, create jobs, and involve communities to contribute to decision making.

1. The benefits of sustainability
By
Kenneth Bowazi
MSc BE, BSc Hons QS, BScConstrEcon, PGCE

2. Its about meeting the needs of the present
without negatively affecting the needs and
rights of future generations

3. • To understand potential social, physical
and economic benefits of sustainability
• To describe the benefits of sustainability

4. A sustainable project should consider and
resolve economic, social and environmental
issues from planning stage

5. regeneration of socially and economically deprived,
run- down locations, areas or regions
reduction in crime figures leading to feeling of
safety, lower cost of insurance premiums and
increasing the area’s ability to attract further
commercial enterprise into a run- down location
inclusion of green spaces providing an attractive,
aesthetically pleasing place to live, socialise and
engage as a community
promoting community consultation and a sense of
local involvement, so the community has an
opportunity to contribute to decision-making
processes in what happens to their environment
improved environments attracting more people and
business into an area, further promoting it as a
sustainable environment

6. discuss key concepts and definitions relating
to the approaches and benefits of
sustainability:
● social (e.g. affordable social housing)
● physical (e.g. improved built and natural
environment)
● economic (e.g. increase of businesses in
an area).

7. http://northsolihull.co.uk/the-vision
Study the site and list down the benefits of
regeneration

8. Regeneration can:
reduce crime
create open green spaces
improve quality of life for the local
community
attract wealth to an area
protect the local environment
create local employment opportunities
attract eco-tourism

9. http://www.newham.gov.uk/Pages/ServiceC
hild/Regenerating-Canning-Town-and-
Custom-House.aspx
Study the regeneration of Canning Town and
Custom House in Newham and explain how
the community consultation and involvement
is done

10. Explain the benefits of:
Regeneration
reducing crime and link with run-down areas
green spaces
community consultation
improved environments attracting wealth