Holistic management of brownfield regeneration (HOMBRE) : decision support system on soft reuses

Often brownfields reuse is considered in the context of hard reuses such as for housing, business parks or infrastructure. Soft end uses, such as green space or biomass production, can tend to be overlooked. However, soft end uses can provide services which enhance regeneration, both in their own right and when integrated with hard uses such as for buildings. HOMBRE (Holistic Management of Brownfield Regeneration) was a major EU FP7 project which concluded in November 2014. One of its outputs is a simple design aid to help developers and others involved in brownfields to identify what services they can get from soft reuse interventions for their site, how these interact and what the initial default design considerations might be. This report is the presentation and explanation on how to use this design aid to better assess and design soft reuse interventions and services within brownfield regeneration processes. We explain and show how we connect services with interventions and the other way around. How to implement this in the regeneration process in order to increase the overall project success and sustainability.