Greenfields, Brownfields and Housing Development (eBook)

David Adams is Ian Mactaggart Professor of Property and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. Craig Watkins, Reader, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield.

Part 1: THE POLICY CONTEXT - Introduction; The changing
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

David Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of the RICS Foundation, is
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