The 1980s Property Boom

In this paper the causes and consequences of the property boom of the late 1980s are considered that in one way or another affected most developed economies and several industrialising ones. It is suggested that technical change in key service industries caused an upsurge in building demand from the mid-1970s onwards. Shifts in employment patterns then generated repercussions in housing markets. The classic conditions were created for a ‘Kuznets style’ building cycle. The detailed effects of these changes in specific countries depended on the responses by agents involved in the process of building provision, which in turn were affected by the changing economic and institutional contexts that they faced. Property development, financial liberation, housing markets, property taxation, and land-use planning are all considered in this context, with examples drawn from several countries.

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Spatio-Temporal Evolution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Urban Service-Industry Land in China

Land ◽

10.3390/land11010013 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 13

Author(s):

Sidong Zhao ◽

Kaixu Zhao ◽

Yiran Yan ◽

Kai Zhu ◽

Chiming Guan

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Hot Spots ◽

Service Industry ◽

Policy Design ◽

Hot Spot ◽

Service Industries ◽

Driving Factors ◽

Urban Service ◽

Evolution Characteristics

The level of service-industry development has become an important symbol of the competitiveness and influence of cities. The study of the dynamic evolution characteristics and patterns of urban service-industry land use, the driving factors and their interactions is helpful to provide a basis for decision making in policy design and land use planning for the development of service economies. In this study we have conducted an empirical study of China, based on the methods of spatial cold- and hot-spot analysis, Tapio’s decoupling model, and GeoDetector. We found that: (1) the scales of land use, output efficiencies and development intensities of service-industries are increasing with a trend that takes the form of a “J”, “U” and “inverted U”, respectively; (2) Spatial variabilities and agglomerations are significant, with a stable spatial pattern of the scale of service-industry land use, and a gradient in the distribution of cold- and hot-spots. The dominant spatial units of output efficiency and development intensity have changed from low and lower to high and higher, and the cold- and hot-spots gather in clusters; (3) The development of service-industries is highly dependent on the input of land-resources, and only a few provinces are in a state of strong decoupling, while most are in a state of weak decoupling, with quite a few still in a state of expansive coupling, expansive negative decoupling, or even strong negative decoupling; (4) There are many driving factors for land use changes in the service-industry, with increasingly complicated and diversified relationships between each other, ranked in intensity as the scale effect > informatization > globalization > industrialization > urbanization.

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Property Development and Land Use Planning Regulations in Nigeria

International Journal of Environment Agriculture and Biotechnology ◽

10.22161/ijeab/2.4.31 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 1694-1707 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ogbonna Chukwuemeka Godswill ◽

Obinka Azubuike Nnaemeka ◽

Aguguo Godlives Ukachukwu

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Property Development

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PLANNING AND ARUN's (NOT SO STRAIGHT AND NARROW) ROADS

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad ◽

10.17159/1727-3781/2016/v19i0a1162 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Jeannie Van Wyk

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Case Note ◽

Constitutional Court ◽

Western Cape ◽

Land Use Management ◽

Property Development ◽

High Court ◽

The Public ◽

Formed Part

Arun Property Development (Pty) Ltd wished to subdivide portions of the farm Langeberg 311, Durbanville. The 1988 structure plan for the area had indicated that certain roads would traverse the property. These and other roads all formed part of a new subdivision known as Sonstraal Heights. As is customary, the ownership of the roads in the subdivision vested in the municipality in terms of section 28 of the Land Use Planning Ordinance 15 of 1985 (C) (LUPO) on the date of approval of the subdivision. Central to this provision is that no compensation is payable to the developer if the provision of the public roads is based on the normal need therefor arising from the subdivision. Since the developer was of the opinion that the roads it had provided exceeded the normal need, the issue that had to be resolved was whether compensation must be paid for roads beyond what would normally be required for a subdivision. The main issue that the courts, from the Western Cape High Court to the Constitutional Court in Arun Property Development (Pty) Ltd v City of Cape Town 2015 2 SA 584 (CC), had to deal with was whether the vesting of roads beyond the normal need therefor arising from the subdivision amounted to an expropriation of land for which compensation is payable in terms of section 25(2) of the Constitution. This case note looks at the different stages of the case, and in the process highlights the historical and legislative background and the subdivision process. It shows that the vesting of the ownership of roads in the municipality is similar to the payment of a development contribution, both of which can be categorised as deprivations of property in terms of the constitutional property clause. On 1 July 2015 LUPO was effectively superseded by the new Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act 16 of 2013 (SPLUMA) and the Western Cape Land Use Planning Act 3 of 2014 (LUPA). Since SPLUMA does not and LUPA does contain a reference to the "normal needs" provision, the implications of Arun for the new legislative dispensation are addressed.

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