Safety and Urban Planning

In the Netherlands no standards or design criteria are formulated by the government or the legislator for the realization of buildings adjacent to the infrastructure with transport of hazardous materials or chemical installations. In regard to external safety there is even also no judicial base for example the functional design of land-use planning for such locations. This paper presents a framework of design parameters for realizing projects in the neighbour of hazardous locations. The framework is set-up from an urban planning point of view, in which the effect related safety measures and design parameters for urban planning are extensively analysed on the macro (city), meso (urban plan) and micro (building) scale level, following from scenarios which may take place with hazardous materials. The main advantage of such a framework is that different disciplines and design parameters can be integrated at an early possible design stage in urban development.