How has PRESUD helped Newcastle progress towards Sustainable Urban Development

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How has PRESUD helped Newcastle progress towards
Sustainable Urban Development
17 September 2004
Tom Quigley Newcastle City Council
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Awareness

• Raising awareness of Sustainability
• A team of peers from cities across Europe
• Interest from a range of people from politicians
  to officers

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Housing

• Housing Sustainable Housing Project Funded
  by Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder looking at a
  wider City Council Policy

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Learning/Knowledge

• Learning from other cities across Europe
• Commitment /Policy
• Innovation
• Technology
• Newcastle as a
• European City

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Regeneration

• The regeneration process decision making
  involving the community in issues Sustainability
  principles important part of brief

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Carbon neutral Information and campaigns
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Transport

• Transport electric buses and trams now
  considered important to transport policy at outset

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The PRESUD Approach

• Systematic and logical
• Comprehensive and inclusive everyone should and
  can contribute to sustainable policy
• Its not something to be left to specialists!
• Its not something that can be applied later once
  other priorities have been addressed

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The PRESUD approach

• Logical nature and essentially simple structure
  of the PRESUD approach
• Vision
• Leadership
• Plans and Polices
• Targets
• Resources
• Actions
• Results
• Organisational learning and development

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Organisational Learning

• Awareness
• Importance of peers
• New way of looking at things
• Experience from elsewhere
• Simplifying problems
• Network of contacts that can advise and help

Weve got to be more outward looking!
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Newcastles response

• PRESUD report well received
• Corporate group of senior officers met to discuss
  recommendations
• Cross council group to be set up to look at
  priorities and programme of action