INTRODUCTION

The Town and Country Planning Association organised a study tour to visit various sustainable settlements in Sweden in April 2009, which the author of this report attended. The study tour gave an excellent opportunity to look at three sustainable settlements in the company of the eminent planner Sir Peter Hall, colleagues from the private and public sectors and guides from the Malmö and Stockholm city planning departments. Each settlement portrayed different characteristics and had taken different planning and sustainability measures.

The settlements were:

• Ekostaden Augustenborg, Malmö: Sustainable retrofitting of an existing community.

• Vastra Hämnen, Malmö: A new community and demonstration sustainable neighbourhood on a former industrial site. (The developed neighbourhood in Vastra Hämnen referred to in this report is known as Bo01.)

• Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm: A new sustainable community and extension of the inner city on a brownfield site.