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Sustainable suburbs and how to live in them
White Design is part of a UK-wide research project exploring how suburban neighbourhoods can adapt to climate change. The suburbs of three cities - Bristol, Oxford and Stockport - will be monitored in a 3 year project led by the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments at the University of the West of England. Suburbs are being targeted because they are the most common type of urban area in the UK, housing 84% of the population.
White Design's role will be to provide specialist input on the built environment, particularly retrofitting and behavioural change under different scenarios and climate change adaptation packages.
The project team will use modelling tools covering climate change, house prices and adaptation outcomes to help participants visualise what 'adapted' neighbourhoods will look like.
The project title (SNACC) stands for Suburban Neighbourhood Adaptation for a Changing Climate and is part of a wider government programme to manage and protect vital ecosystem services. The findings will be communicated to a wide network of policy, practice, public and academic audiences.
