Vision: the residential crisis
Vision: the residential crisis
- 2004
- Estates Gazette (0414) 3 April 2004, 126-131(6) .
Presents three articles on aspects of the current housing crisis. "The home front" reports on the hostile property industry's response to the re-introduction of the planning gain supplement in the Barker Review's package of proposals. "Fighting flight for city centre blight" looks at house builder Crest Nicholson's strategic focus on development in poor city centres; re-developing run-down estates to include a mixture of upmarket and middle-market housing as in its Park Central scheme in Birmingham. "Homes in the south east? Get radical" supports north Kent as the only logical location for a huge housing expansion close to London and outlines the infrastructure and house building requirements of such a development.
BIRMINGHAM
SWANLEY
DARTFORD
GRAVESEND
TOWN CENTRES
THAMES GATEWAY
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING GAIN
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1947
NORTH KENT
LAND TAX
BARKER REVIEW
Presents three articles on aspects of the current housing crisis. "The home front" reports on the hostile property industry's response to the re-introduction of the planning gain supplement in the Barker Review's package of proposals. "Fighting flight for city centre blight" looks at house builder Crest Nicholson's strategic focus on development in poor city centres; re-developing run-down estates to include a mixture of upmarket and middle-market housing as in its Park Central scheme in Birmingham. "Homes in the south east? Get radical" supports north Kent as the only logical location for a huge housing expansion close to London and outlines the infrastructure and house building requirements of such a development.
BIRMINGHAM
SWANLEY
DARTFORD
GRAVESEND
TOWN CENTRES
THAMES GATEWAY
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING GAIN
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1947
NORTH KENT
LAND TAX
BARKER REVIEW