Assessing sustainability in housing LED urban
regeneration : insights from a housing association in Northern England

Dean, K; Trillo, C

Abstract

How far do current assessment methods allow the thorough evaluation of sustainable urban regeneration? Would it be useful, to approach the evaluation
of the environmental and social impacts of housing regeneration schemes,
by making both hidden pitfalls and potentials explicit, and budgeting costs
and benefits in the stakeholders’ perspective? The paper aims at answering
these questions, by focusing on a case study located in the Manchester area,
the City West Housing Trust, a nonprofit housing association. Drawing from
extensive fieldwork and including several interviews with key experts from
this housing association, the paper first attempts to monetize the environmental and social value of two extant projects – a high-rise housing estate
and an environmentally-led program. It then discusses whether and how a
stakeholder-oriented approach would allow more engagement of both current
and potential funders in the projects at hand. Findings from both the literature and the empirical data that was gathered show how in current housing regeneration processes, room for significant improvements in terms of assessment methods still exist. Findings additionally show that the environmental
and social spillovers are largely disregarded because of a gap in the evaluation
tools. This may also hinder the potential contributions of further funders in
the achievements of higher impacts in terms of sustainability.

Citation

regeneration : insights from a housing association in Northern England. Architecture_MPS, 15(2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2019v15i2.001

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Mar 19, 2019
• Publication Date: Mar 19, 2019
• Deposit Date: Apr 3, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 3, 2019
• Journal: Architecture_MPS
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1-18
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2019v15i2.001
• Publisher URL: http://architecturemps.com/
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