Development and the Landowner: An Analysis of the British Experience

In a political climate favouring the private sector, the private landowners were more influential—and the planning authorities less powerful—than any time in the mid-1970s. First published in 1985, Development and the Landowner builds on a substantial amount of research to analyse the British experience of the landowner’s influence on the timing, scale, and pattern of development. The changes are reviewed, and the authors examine their meaning for the development process.

In the first part o...