FDTCP INITIATIVE TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PART 3

Manual of Sustainability Assessment

The efforts of making urban and rural areas in Malaysia sustainable were not only done at the conceptual level or just for the purpose of assessment, but the concept of sustainable development has also been streamlined or incorporated in all levels of development plan from National Physical Plan at the federal level, to Structure Plan at state level as well as in Local Plan and Special Area Plan at the local level. Special Sustainability Assessment (SA) method has been introduced and applied in the process of preparing and finalising each local plan to ensure that the proposed future land use development of an area are in line with the aim to achieve sustainable development.

Futher enquiry about this article kindly contact :

DR. AZMIZAM ABDUL RASHID

 Research and Development Division,
 Federal Department of Town and Country Planning,
 Ministry of Housing and Local Government,
 Unit No. 50-12-2B, & 50-13-1, Wisma UOA Damansara,
 No. 50, Jalan Dungun, Damansara Heights,
 50490 Kuala Lumpur,
 Malaysia
 email address : azmizam@townplan.gov.my

Green Neighbourhood Planning Guidelines

FDTCP is working on Green Neighbourhood Planning Guidelines, whilst the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water is at their final stage of preparing the guidelines on Green Township and Low Carbon City. There are also initiatives by professional bodies to formulate the Green Building Index Township Tools, Residential New Construction Guide, Green Building Certification and so on.

The endeavour to promote, implement and enforce the sustainable development goal in Malaysia has now move to a new phase, in line with the international efforts to tackle the issues and phenomenon of global warming, climate change, natural disaster and so on. It has also move to anticipate the ideas of low-carbon city, renewable energy and various `green’ initiatives, such as green technology, green transportation, green building, green township, green neighbourhood and others `green’ brand and tagline.

Green Neighbourhood Planning Guidelines is an integrated manner with the priority given to the protection and consumption of natural resources, application of green technology and recycling. It seeks to preserve the environment, reduce the ecology footprint, reduce the production of carbon emission, improving public health, safety as well as generalwelfare of city dwellers.

8 Planning Principles

i.        Priority given to sustainability and environment of aspect;

ii.      Creating sustainable communities living in harmony, healthy and interact with each other;

iii.    Create high accessibility environment;

iv.    Comfortable human scale neighbourhood design;

v.      Containing the features of affordable housing;

vi.    Provide Green Infrastructure “green infrastructure”; 
vii   Energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE).