Ensuring that new developments will be comfortable and sustainable in our future climate is the aim of the consultation document Adapting to Climate Change: A Checklist for Development, which was formally launched on 1st February at the Sustainable Communities Summit in Manchester.
Developers and planners need to change the design of new buildings in response to a changing climate. Current building design and location will need to factor in a climate that will see warmer, wetter winters, hotter and drier summers, more extreme rainfall events and rising sea levels.
To help them do this, the London Climate Change Partnership, the South East Climate Change Partnership and the East of England’s Sustainable Development Roundtable have come together to form the so-called 'Three Regions Climate Change Group' and publish this consultation document.
The Checklist suggests ways for developers and their design teams to modify building designs to cope with the weather changes associated with global warming and climate change.
The document is aimed at developers and their design team: architects, surveyors, engineers and landscape architects. Also those in the wider development community such as investors, land purchasers, insurers and planners, as well as policymakers in local, regional and national government.
