Launched! The Neighbourhood Sustainability Framework and Assessment Kit
Beacon’s Neighbourhood team has just launched the culmination of their research: a Neighbourhood Sustainability Framework and Assessment Kit.
This provides a framework for people and organisations wanting to improve the sustainability of neighbourhoods that they are planning, retrofitting and managing. It takes into account the environmental, social, behavioural and economic elements of neighbourhoods, and recognises that not only are neighbourhoods dynamic, they reflect the result of multiple decisions made by a range of stakeholders at different times. The Kit provides the tools to both assess neighbourhoods and to drive conversations on specific aspects of neighbourhood level sustainability in order to inform practical decision making.
You will find the Neighbourhood Sustainability Framework and Assessment Kit useful if you are a:
- developer
- local authority planner, engineer, policy maker or community developer
- designer
- planner
- neighbourhood manager, for example, with Housing New Zealand Corporation or a housing trust
The technical reports detailing the development of the NSF and Kit are also available.