Brownfield Skills

The Draft Brownfield Skills Strategy has been developed as joint working between English Partnerships and the Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC). This follows recommendations to Government for an overarching National Brownfield Strategy for England which includes a skills strand.

Extensive research and consultation surrounding the skills barriers that prevent or hinder the reuse of brownfield land has revealed that securing the highly skilled workforce required is a recurrent problem. This applies to the private sector as well as for local government and other public sector organisations.

Draft Brownfield Skills Strategy

The public consultation period for the Draft Brownfield Skills Strategy, which makes 25 recommendations, closed on 11 June 2008. A summary of responses for this is available.

It is expected that the final strategy will be published by the new Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) early next year.

The draft strategy has four objectives:

Changing attitudes towards skills
Encouraging cross-disciplinary working
Raising the profile of brownfield careers
Promoting a common framework for skills development

Draft Brownfield Skills Strategy

Download the Draft Brownfield Skills Strategy – PDF (3.4 MB)

It is expected that the final strategy will be published early in 2009 by the Homes and Communities Agency.

Download Annex 2, the draft summary of practitioners’ responses to the Scoping Study Consultation - PDF (316 KB)

Download the Consultation responses summary - PDF (388 KB)

This document contains a summary of the 46 responses.

All the responses not requesting confidentiality are available for ASC website.

The Evidence Base

The Evidence Base contains the findings of cumulative research, conducted by the Academy for Sustainable Communities and English Partnerships, which informed the development of the Brownfield Skills Strategy.