GRC Research and Projects

Land Regeneration Network - Nov-2005 » Apr-2006

The Land Regeneration Network (LRN) provides a networking platform for stakeholders of contaminated land, industrial waste and environmental businesses in Wales. The LRN works to enhance and improve the environmental business climate in Wales by promoting sustainable practises in land management & industrial waste sectors to industry, to government agencies, and to the general public. In this way the LRN assists those businesses to improve their capabilities, legislative awareness, knowledge of best practice and emerging technologies, and ultimately their performance in the marketplace.

The LRN is now established as a leading Network in Wales for this sector, with over 1500 individual members drawn from over 1000 companies and organisations.

The Network provides a variety of direct services to environmental businesses in Wales including the scheduling and coordination of a number of events and activities. These include monthly evening lecture and networking meetings, dedicated high-quality information services, workshops and seminars, and an active collaborative project support service. In addition, the Network provides a dissemination service to environmental businesses that include regular communications in the form of a monthly newsletter and regular mailshots, as well as a dedicated website continually updated with legislative and information resources including active industrial case studies, news, special bulletins, legislative updates and briefing notes on dedicated issues.

The support offered by the Network is therefore helping to develop a highly reactive and informed community in Wales, able to respond to both market and legislative drivers quickly and profitably. Proactively encouraging participation in legislative consultations, both at national and European levels, the Network is supporting the sector to respond early to suggested changes in policy, steering political development to better reflect the needs and capability of the sector by putting regulators in direct contact with stakeholder companies, individuals and organisations.

The benefits from involvement in the all-Wales Land Regeneration Network have been experienced right across the relevant EGS sub-sectors. The Network has added significantly to the support available to these sectors for environmental business development in Wales, contributing to the growing demand for clear technical information in the environmental sector and thereby providing assistance to the whole of Wales through the environmental improvements that result. These developments afford Wales the opportunity to build on existing expertise and become a world-leader in these sectors of land, waste and sustainable environmental management.

The primary contact for this project is David Owen.

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