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Elucidating sustainability sequencing, tensions, and trade-offs in development decision-making

Through £500k EPSRC funded project EP/E021601/1 this research developed a novel mapping approach which demonstrates how clear understating of the timing and nature of decisions must be integral to sustainable regeneration processes and that trade-offs and compromises are likely to be prerequisite for their delivery. The application of this approach to development case studies demonstrates that, when dealing with multiple, often contradictory objectives associated with regeneration, the potential for possible outcomes to be ‘locked-in’ or ‘locked-out’ early in the design can be overcome. Lessons arising from this research shaped the proposal that ultimately formed the £3.2M Urban Futures project (EP/F007426/1).