Brownfield sites and the Housing Bill
The Government is looking to use the Housing Bill to reduce the amount of legislation for the development of brownfield sites – arguing that legislation intended to protect both environment and building are unnecessary, ‘liberalising’ the planning system (1). This is with a view to building 200,000 homes by 2020, a number well below Labour’s […]
Landmark’s Risk Assessed Land Register logs 2,600 football pitches worth of environmentally assessed and ‘passed’ land in its first six months
Since launching the Risk Assessed Land Register (RALR) six months ago, Landmark Information Group, the UK’s leading supplier of digital mapping, property and environmental risk information, has captured the details of over 2,800 hectares of land (6,900+ acres) that has been assessed and deemed not to be liable for action under Part 2A of the […]