(Client: Forestry Commission)
The Public Benefit Recording System (PBRS) was devised to describe and measure public benefits that might arise through the transformation of derelict, under-used or neglected land to soft end uses, taking account of the socio-economic and environmental profile of a site and its locality.
Techniques have since developed, and the PBRS uses data ‘layers’ that are specific to the themes or priorities of the project, and to the relevant needs and / or opportunities that are being addressed, to identify those broad indicative areas with greatest relevance to project priorities, onto which individual sites can then be overlaid.
The PBRS has been instrumental in securing public sector approval to a number of high-value environmental regeneration programmes, and it continues to be applied to strategic programmes across the country.