Greenfields, Brownfields and Housing Development
Real Estate Issues
1. Edition August 2002
Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The location of new housing development has become one of the most
intractable controversies of modern times. This book provides a
powerful critique of the growing tendency to reduce the debate on
the development of new housing to a mere choice between greenfield
and brownfield locations. It calls for full account to be taken of
such factors as the structure and organisation of the housebuilding
industry, supply and demand pressures in the housing market, the
contested nature of sustainability and the political character of
the planning process if a truly effective housing land policy is to
be devised.
Drawing on theories from economics and political science, this
book will provide an important reference point on the institutional
context within which residential development takes place and on the
concerns of planning authorities, environmentalists, housebuilders,
and their customers in relation to the apparent choice between
greenfield and brownfield development.
context of housing development; The sustainability of new housing
development; The residential planning process;.
Part 2: MARKET, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONTEXT - The
speculative housebuilding industry; The politics of planning and
housing development;.
PART 3 POLICY EVALUATION - Greenfield housing
development; Brownfield housing development; The economics of
planning and housing development; Conclusions and policy
implications; Bibliography; Index
supportive of the authors' conclusions:
"We welcome the government's proposed increase in the
quantities of affordable housing, but would echo the findings of
Greenfields, Brownfields and Housing Development in urging
ministers to look closely at how solutions to housing shortages can
become catalysts for increased local prosperity and improved
quality of life".
"Overall Greenfields, Brownfields and Housing Development
makes an excellent and timely contribution to debate in this field.
The political - economic barriers to more compact forms of
development are identified and the authors conclude that the state
will need to play a more active role in the development process if
a more sustainable form of housing development is to be achieved."
Town Planning Review July 2003
'This book provides the reader with a very sound
understanding of the way in which house builders, planners and all
those with an interest in development are accommodating policy
change since the mid 1990s. It draws on a wealth of research
experience and provides a very useful mix of material....an
important milestone' Journal of Housing and the Built
Environment.
'I learned a lot from this book and it is important to anyone
working or doing research in the field of contemporary housing
development' European Planning Studies Vol 11, No 8
Craig Watkins, Reader, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield.
