Most housing providers recognise that, as long-term stakeholders in communities, it is in their interest to invest in measures that underpin sustainability.  Some have already built relationships with tenants and become involved in community development.  It makes sense that they should go on to become involved in local economic development and environmental management.

But achieving truly sustainable development is not a simple process.  It involves a diverse range of stakeholders working together on a matrix of apparently conflicting priorities: enabling both the social and economic progress of communities while, at the same time, protecting the environment and conserving natural resources.  This cannot be done within existing frameworks.

To succeed in sustainable development, housing providers and their partners in the regeneration process will have to find radically new ways of thinking, new strategies, new partnerships and new kinds of expertise.  This seminar will look at ways of approaching new partnerships and building appropriate skills and expertise, with examples of tools available to assist in the process, and models of good practice already in progress.

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