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Sustainable Urban Environmental Planning - Community Plans by Anne Beer, Professor
Emeritus University of Sheffield The following notes are modified extracts from the book: Environmental Planning for Site Development, 2nd Edition. Anne R. Beer and Catherine Higgins, Spons,2000 ( wherever a Chapter is referred to it will be found in the book - Environmental Planning for Site Development - A.R.Beer, 2000) supplemented by information from the Stocksbridge case study which is presently underway.
If a proper understanding of the link between a site's physical characteristics and the people who live on it is to develop, it is necessary to gather information on the abiotic and biotic characteristics of the environment as well as on the people. This is termed the Environmental Inventory. The first task is to assemble base maps for the study area. The best scale for the map will depend on local circumstances and on how big and widespread the community is; a scale of 1:10,000 is normally adequate, although where more detail is required at the implementation stage, plans of 1:1250 or even 1:500 can be used. The process begins with the assembly of local data relating to the environmental factors. Data are collated and recorded in mapped (preferably within a Geographic Information System to allow interactions to be examined), or note format. Gathering and interpreting data is not a linear process, in undertaking any environmental project the process is more like an ever widening circle of related data and knowledge. You may find the use of mind-mapping techniques a useful starting point for assembling and relating the data (Buzan, 1995).
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