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Circular Flow Land Use Management (CircUse)

Results and insight of the CircUse

Project

Anna Starzewska-Sikorska

Conference „Land as a resource” Brussels, 19.06.2014

www.circuse.eu © Susanne Stromberg

Circular land use management

Costs of uncontrolled

suburbanization in Poland

It has been estimated that now people in Poland loose a fortune for

commuting. It reaches the level of more than 6 billion Euro per year.

Also the report on the total economic and social costs of uncontrolled

suburbanization in Poland is showing the level of expenditures

reaching more than 40 billion Euro.

The document of National Urban Policy which is now being created in

Poland is concentrating on the main thematic priorities such as:

space development, social participation, transport and urban

mobility, low emission and energetic efficiency, revitalization,

investment policy, economic development, environmental protection

and climate change, demography and urban areas management.

Integration of economic criteria with land use planning is a necessary

step as well as coordination of activities of various sectors which have

impact on urban development.



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CircUse project background

Key urban issues:

- excessive land consumption,

- urban sprawl,

- brownfields,

- increase of urbanized areas not proportionally to population growth

Negative consequences:

• higher demand on energy consumption,

• increased cost of development externalities resulting in reduction

of competitiveness of cities,

• diminishing of soil environmental services capacity resulting in

global climate problems



CircUse goal

Project CircUse focused on pragmatic approaches supporting

urbanised land recycling to make land a renewable resource.

Therefore the CircUse goal was:

Working out of transnational model of circular land use

management consistent with sustainable development

requirements: stakeholders´ involvement as an important

element in the model implementation.

Within the project a climate friendly land use concepts have

been developed for 6 pilot sites in 6 countries in coherence with

new instruments and pilot actions, where a transnational

applicable solutions would enhance counteracting urban sprawl

and creation of dispersed land use patterns.



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CircUse concept

Circular land use management represents an integrative policy and

governance approach, which presupposes a changed land use

philosophy with regard to land utilization.

This modified land use philosophy can be expressed with the slogan:

“avoid – recycle – compensate“

Similar approach as to recycling of other valuable

resources (paper, metal, glass est.) is applied.



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Instrument mix • Legal, planning and

economic instruments

• Cooperating steering

approaches

Planning

Use Abandonment

Cessation of use

Reintroduction

Interin use

c. a.

b.

The CircUse process is visualized in this

figure, showing land use as a cycle with three

major phases:

a. Zoning new “Greenfields”

b. Rejection of land not suitable for

subsequent use

c. Activating land potentials

brownfields, empty buildings

gaps between buildings and vacant land

urban renewal and redevelopment sites

sites undergoing planning

The end and the beginning of each phase are

crucial decision points.

Life cycle of land (source: Research group „Flache im Kreis”, 2005)



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CircUse Results

overall strategy towards circular land use management

including 9 theses concerning policy and action plans,

tools and instruments of circular land use management:

transnational land use data base and data management

tool implemented for each pilot case

manual on tools and instruments,

education materials,

CircUse compendium,

pilot projects.



Action Plan for Usti Region – priorities

- Organization and promotion of

sustainable land use in the

region

- Monitoring and steering the

reduction of spatial increases

of urbanised areas

- Directing development onto

previously built up areas

- Compensation measures

directed towards more

sustainable land uses



Action Plan for Asti

Urban development depends on the policy cycle decision to re-use big abandoned sites. If the area of ex Way-Assauto in the Asti Municipality will be reclaimed, it will be a strategic action to re-use with new functions an old industrial site that was an important industrial centre in the territory. So the idea to assign a new function to this area is very important.

From re-use of ex Way-Assauto area is possible to enhance territorial economic development with creation of jobs, creation of cultural identity by citizen participation, creation of tax incentives and optimisation of existing and future infrastructure.



Action Plan for Saxony

Objectives definition

New Saxonian development plan acc. to

the circular land use management

Indicators and targets on land

consumption based on reg. dev. plan

acc. to the circular land use management

Recommendations of integration into the

regional development plan land cycle

aspects

Development of data management tool

Stakeholders awareness raising by

workshops



Action Plan for Trnava

The vision is the development of

functioning, efficient and flexible

cooperation structure and interlinks

between different aspects of micro-

regional development, different

actors and interests in one

interlinked strategy as a reaction to

existing problems with brownfields

areas, abandoned buildings and

growing requirements concerning

new capacities of public services

and land for private investments.



Action Plan for Voitsberg

Reduction of land consumption

and soil sealing and providing a

long-term concept for land

management in the Region of

Voitsberg. The future use of

large derelict mining areas will

be analysed and the potential

to establish pilot biomass

plantations shall be explored

and tested.



Action Plan for Piekary

analysis of ground contamination

- concepts of the possible land

management,

- technical projects,

- marketing operations,

- supporting of investors’ activities,

- investment activities (realization of

the pilot project regarding

greenfields development),

- social communication



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CircUse Pilot Investment

The investment is located in Brzeziny – the district of Piekary Śląskie in

Poland. It consisted in redevelopment of a selected post-industrial site of

14 ha. It included establishing green zone separating industrial areas

from residential complexes, what will not only create a natural buffer, but

also increase recreational value of the area.

The green zone constituted a park area with walking routes,

beach volley-ball playing ground, tables for chess playing, and

also so-called “energy garden” where in a small site testing

plants for biomass production have been planted. The area now

serving for inhabitants from the neighbouring residential area

and also for the whole town of Piekary.



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Investment in Piekary



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Conclusions

The approach of circular land use management is a proved method for sustainable urban land management offering:

- Reuse of postindustrial areas through making it suitable for business activity (production, storage, recycling connected activity)

- Restoration of urban areas, in particular rising the standard of residential and shop-service buildings, improve esthetics of public areas, especially in the central part of historical value.

- Taking actions against unemployment and social detachment of the locals.

It is an efficient way supporting the objective of making land a renewable resource.



Conclusions – cont.

1. Apart from the technical effects of the Project implementation very

important conclusions resulting from this co-operation should be

emphasized:

- strengthening co-operation between municipalities in regions,

- mutual learning,

- ideas of further common projects,

- contacts by contacts (chain of contacts, transnational networking).

2. CircUse idea should be promoted by next steps including

implementation of action plans, training, further activities aiming at

use of this idea and strategy in concrete premises of future European

documents concerning protection of land and soil.



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Thank you for your attention

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Ustroń/Katowice – 6th-8th October 2014

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INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR REVITALISATION OF DEGRADED AREAS

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