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Mixed use - a smokescreen for residential development?

By: Language: English Series: Property Forecast ; 9(10) October 2006, 8-11(3)Publication details: 2006Subject(s): Summary: Suggests that there is no longer the drive to explicitly promote mixed use development over single use in spite of government directives to promote mixed tenure and sustainable communities. Questions whether mixed use is now just a convenient label to ease the way for residential development. Analyses the residential supply and delivery, and the changing nature of mixed use development. Concludes that the residential market is now the driving force behind mixed use development. Table covers residential supply on strategic sites. Figures.

Suggests that there is no longer the drive to explicitly promote mixed use development over single use in spite of government directives to promote mixed tenure and sustainable communities. Questions whether mixed use is now just a convenient label to ease the way for residential development. Analyses the residential supply and delivery, and the changing nature of mixed use development. Concludes that the residential market is now the driving force behind mixed use development. Table covers residential supply on strategic sites. Figures.