Previously developed land : industrial activities and contamination /

The redevelopment of former industrial sites, so-called 'brownfield' sites, is becoming increasingly important as space is required for inner city commercial developments and as housebuilders are forced by government policy to recycle land rather than using 'greenfield' sites. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Syms, Paul M.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., ©2004.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Subjects:	Brownfields > Great Britain. Brownfields > Law and legislation > Great Britain. Reclamation of land > Great Britain. Soil pollution > Risk assessment > Great Britain. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction and policy context
Approaches to valuation
Barriers to redevelopment
Recording land condition / Judith Lowe
A few legal problems / Paul Sheridan
Modernising the British planning system / Ted Kitchen
Geographical information systems / James Cadoux-Hudson & Donna Lyndsay
Industrial activities and their potential to cause contamination.