Top regeneration experts visit Belfast

10 September 2012

Some of Europe`s top experts in the field of brownfield regeneration are in Belfast to formulate possible proposals for a number of key sites throughout the city.

The Brownfield Policy Improvement Task Force – or `B-Team` – is an INTERREG IVC project, funded under the European Regional Development Fund, which aims to help cities improve policy development and the overall approach to regenerating brownfield sites through sharing of experiences and best practices in brownfield regeneration.

The project – which Belfast City Council has been leading – covers cities and institutions from 11 countries across Europe, all of whom have also signed a `Brownfield Pledge`, which commits them to improving their brownfield regeneration policies.

Belfast is hosting the last in a series of `Brownfield Days`, have brought together the teams from all the cities involved, to discuss and address local issues and experiences relevant to each relevant city.

Over the four days of the conference, the delegates will visit a number of brownfield sites across Belfast, where they will take part in a series of workshops aimed at developing future regeneration plans for each of the sites concerned. The proposals will be formally presented at a plenary session in the City Hall on Thursday September 13th.

The potential projects being examined by the delegates during their visit are vacant sites in Belfast city centre vacant spaces, the Springvale/Forth River development site and the still undeveloped northern fringe of the Gasworks.

The cities participating in the `B-Team` project are Belfast (United Kingdom), Hajdú (Hungary), Oulu (Finland), Seville (Spain), Turin (Italy), Dresden and Leibniz (Germany), Vilnius (Lithuania), Ruda Slaska (Poland), Dublin (Ireland) and Raumberg-Gumpenstein (Austria), as well as Poland`s Central Mining Institute and the Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research.

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