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Development and the Landowner: An Analysis of the British Experience book cover

1st Edition

Development and the Landowner An Analysis of the British Experience

By Robin Goodchild, Richard Munton Copyright 1985
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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In a political climate favouring the private sector, the private landowners were more influential—and the planning authorities less powerful—than any time in the mid-1970s. First published in 1985, Development and the Landowner builds on a substantial amount of research to analyse the British experience of the landowner’s influence on the timing, scale, and pattern of development. The changes... Read more

Preface 1. Land ownership and development 2. The policy context 3. Land values and the market for development land 4. The development process 5. The landowner’s investment strategy 6. Leicester – an expanding city 7. Landowners and the development of land in the Metropolitan Green Belt 8. The inner city: market failure or planning problem? 9. Review and policy implications 10. Addendum: 1985 budget and abolition of DLT

Biography

Robin Goodchild

Richard Munton

Review of the first publication:

‘…this is a volume of considerable competence and great interest.’

— Alistair Macleary, Land Development Studies

‘This book is for specialists but will be widely used by all those interested in land-use planning.’

— The Professional Geographer, Vol. 39, Number 1

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