Växjö Municipality’s Planning Strategy to Increase the Construction of Wooden Multi-Family Buildings
Abstract
:1. Pre-Conditions for Building Development
2. Building and Research Process
3. Policies and Control Mechanisms Used by Municipalities
3.1. Administrative Controlling Instruments
- Physical planning: SFS 2010:900 [17] is a controlling instrument to regulate land, water and construction planning.
- Comprehensive plan: Presents the basic features of the intended use for land and water areas as well as the future development of buildings. The plan is not legally binding, but it is mandatory to have a comprehensive plan [28].
- Planning program: The municipality have the authority to set goals and decide on start dates for any planning activity within a specific building program [23].
- Detailed development plan: Mainly governed by SFS 2010:900 [17], Chapter 4, the regulation with a detailed development plan and area regulation.
- Plan description: The plan description is required, in combination with the detailed development plan, to describe how the detailed development plan is supposed to be understood and implemented. SFS 2010:900 [17] defines what should be included in the plan.
- Planning provisions: The detailed development plan is legally regulated by planning provisions such as usage provisions, property regulations and administrative provisions and is controlled by SFS 2010:900 [17].
- Environmental impact assessment: Environmental impact assessments must be included in the environmental plans describing the environmental impact of planned land development required by SFS 1998:808 [28].
- The prohibition against specific technical requirements by the municipality: Regulations in The Planning and Building Act regarding municipalities’ ability to pose specific requests for technical requirements in the planning process [17].
- Public procurement: SFS 2016:1145 [31] applies to procurement made by a public entity.
- Land allocation and land development agreements: The Swedish Government decided on a new law (SFS 2014:899) [16], Act on Guidelines for Municipality Land Allocations, that is of major importance for the municipalities in terms of land development agreements, land allocation and the pre-conditions for setting their requirements for construction.
3.2. Background of Wood-Building Development within the Växjö Municipality
3.3. Wood-Building Strategy
3.4. Research Environment
3.5. Physical Planning
3.6. Land Allocation—Conceptual Description
4. Land Allocation Competition—Torparängen
4.1. Land Allocation Procedure
- Cost of land (decision made by the municipality council 2015)
- Building diversity
- Improved competition and market diversity
- Building and area design
- Organization and execution
- Organisation and experience
- General description of the project implementation plan
- Ambitions regarding sustainable construction methods
- Ambition regarding wooden building construction
- A written description of the proposed concept
- A basic site plan that describes the design of the external environment, the location of buildings within the area, road solutions for cycle traffic and pedestrians and car parking solutions
- Type of building solution and ownership proposal
- Design examples of buildings and outdoor environments (i.e., façade designs, references or inspirational images). There is no requirement to present floor plans for the apartments
- Develop the proposal’s ambitions regarding sustainable construction further
- Communicate the choice of building frame and building system
- The proposals ambition regarding sustainable construction
- The proposal’s incorporation with Växjö municipality’s wood-building strategy
- The applicability from a research perspective
- The developer’s ability to finalise the conceptualised project
- The proposal’s architectural conceptual approach
- The building’s alignment with the plot of land and the landscape
- To what degree the proposal complies with the detail development plan’s design program
- How the proposal is expected to provide a good living and outdoor environment
4.2. The Participant’s View of the Activities Associated with the Land Allocation Process at Torparängen
5. Concluding Statement
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Lindblad, F. Växjö Municipality’s Planning Strategy to Increase the Construction of Wooden Multi-Family Buildings. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4915. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12124915
Lindblad F. Växjö Municipality’s Planning Strategy to Increase the Construction of Wooden Multi-Family Buildings. Sustainability. 2020; 12(12):4915. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12124915
Chicago/Turabian StyleLindblad, Fredrik. 2020. "Växjö Municipality’s Planning Strategy to Increase the Construction of Wooden Multi-Family Buildings" Sustainability 12, no. 12: 4915. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12124915