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The impact of transmission lines on property values: coming to terms with stigma

By: Contributor(s): Series: Property Management ; 20(2) 2002, 137-152(16)Publication details: 2002Subject(s): Summary: The impact of power transmission lines on property values remains insufficiently explored and inconclusively theorised. Examines what appears to be a general phenomenon of price depreciation of land abutting power lines. A large scale international literature review is organised in terms of a thematic model as a prelude to a precis of key papers discussing the power line/property nexus. Examines the stigma issue which has different manifestations from its normal context involving contaminated lands. A speculative model is provided of the stigma apparently attaching to power lines and attendant installations. [Taken from journal abstract].
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The impact of power transmission lines on property values remains insufficiently explored and inconclusively theorised. Examines what appears to be a general phenomenon of price depreciation of land abutting power lines. A large scale international literature review is organised in terms of a thematic model as a prelude to a precis of key papers discussing the power line/property nexus. Examines the stigma issue which has different manifestations from its normal context involving contaminated lands. A speculative model is provided of the stigma apparently attaching to power lines and attendant installations. [Taken from journal abstract].