7 Property Development and the Industrial Built Environment in the United Kingdom

The 1990 Environmental Protection Act introduced the requirement for local authorities in the United Kingdom to establish and prepare registers of land that had previously been subjected to a potentially contaminative use. This was met with opposition from a range of interests who articulated concerns about potential blight and the effects upon property development. Amongst these interests were those of local authorities of which the larger ones, it is contended, would have good reason to oppose the introduction of registers because of the fear of their consequential impact on local economic development. In this paper the author appraises the local authority responses to the government's proposals for registers of potentially contaminated land and, following the government's decision to abandon the registers, their views of what policy and legal measures ought to be adopted in their place. The author then considers the extent to which these views have been reflected in the 1995 Environment Act which sought, inter alia, to provide a comprehensive legal and policy framework for the resolution of the location and apportionment of contaminated land liabilities.

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Development of sustainable georesources for the built environment in the United Kingdom

Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.3176/earth.2008.2.05 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 94

Author(s):

A A McMillan ◽

E K Hyslop

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Built Environment ◽

The United Kingdom

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Towards an ‘information technocracy’: discourses of London’s post-referendum real estate markets

Planning and Knowledge ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447345244.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 103-114

Author(s):

Nicola Livingstone

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Real Estate ◽

Expert Knowledge ◽

Real Estate Market ◽

Property Development ◽

Real Estate Markets ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Technologies Of Representation

This chapter is a study of the ways in which property development elites use particular techniques and technologies of representation to create development real estate markets in the United Kingdom. It compares the construction of post-Brexit vote narratives of investment landscapes and opportunities in London and the North-East. London's real estate market is considered the leading destination for global capital flows into commercial real estate in the United Kingdom, and therefore it becomes the centrepiece of an evolving socio-technical system. The chapter specifically looks at the media narratives disseminated by real estate market agents in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum in London. It does so in order to question the role of media exposure and private consultancy firms and reflects on the way specialist expert knowledge is publicly disseminated to directly shape public opinion and, indirectly, real estate decision-making.

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Fixed Assets or Sunk Costs? An Examination of Retailers' Land and Property Investment in the United Kingdom

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a291449 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 29 (8) ◽

pp. 1449-1464 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

C M Guy

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Corporate Strategy ◽

Sunk Costs ◽

Grocery Store ◽

Recent Experience ◽

Property Development ◽

Economic Concept ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Retail Trading ◽

The Uk

In this paper I examine the policies of leading multiple retailers in the UK with regards to property development, ownership, and investment. The discussion is set in the context of recent work by Clark and Wrigley in which they seek to relate locational decisions and other elements of corporate strategy to the economic concept of sunk costs. This concept is shown to be relevant to the recent experience of some British retailers which have incurred irrecoverable costs through overpayment for ‘premium’ sites for grocery store development. More generally, property development and ownership have in recent years become important activities for leading retail firms. Policies to separate property ownership and management from the mainstream retail trading function appear to have been successful, but some companies have lost money through overambitious programmes of property development. The conclusion is that, though retail development inevitably incurs sunk costs both at entry and exit, these are for most companies outweighed by the long-term growth of land and property values in the United Kingdom. Sunk costs may therefore be of less significance than in other types of private enterprise.

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Realising a resilient and sustainable built environment: towards a strategic agenda for the United Kingdom

Disasters ◽

10.1111/j.1467-7717.2007.01007.x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 236-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Author(s):

Lee Bosher ◽

Patricia Carrillo ◽

Andrew Dainty ◽

Jacqueline Glass ◽

Andrew Price

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Built Environment ◽

The United Kingdom

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Towards the integration of sustainable infrastructure into the existing built environment

Spatium ◽

10.2298/spat1329030d ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 30-36

Author(s):

Branka Dimitrijevic

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Built Environment ◽

Research Collaboration ◽

Building Design ◽

Medium Size ◽

Construction Sector ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Sustainable Infrastructure ◽

Joint Project ◽

The United Kingdom

The construction sector in the United Kingdom is dominated by small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) which have less than 250 employees and usually do not have research capacities to develop a range of low carbon innovations applicable in the construction sector. Various European and national funding programmes have addressed this problem by providing funding for research collaboration between universities and SMEs. The paper provides a selection of the outputs of academic/industry research, undertaken by seven Scottish universities through the project CIC Start Online from September 2009 until February 2013, related to low carbon planning, building design, technologies, construction, refurbishment and performance. The studies either contributed to the further development of existing products or processes, or tested new products or processes, often developed for a specific project with a potential for application in future projects. Online dissemination of the project outcomes has assisted in attracting membership across Scotland, the United Kingdom and internationally. Along with the low carbon building products and technologies, new low carbon infrastructure is being planned and developed in order to provide connections and services for energy generation from renewables, energy storage and decentralised distribution, water management (harvesting, saving and reuse), waste management (reduction, reuse and to-energy), transport (electric vehicles, cycling and walking) and information communication technology (ICT) for monitoring and managing infrastructure systems. The second part of the paper outlines how innovations for integration of sustainable infrastructure into the existing built environment will be supported through the follow-on joint project of nine Scottish universities, named Mainstreaming Innovation.

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Impact of the hospital built environment on treatment satisfaction of psychiatric in-patients

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291720003815 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Nikolina Jovanović ◽

Elisabetta Miglietta ◽

Anja Podlesek ◽

Adam Malekzadeh ◽

Antonio Lasalvia ◽

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Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Patient Satisfaction ◽

Built Environment ◽

Treatment Satisfaction ◽

Psychiatric Hospitals ◽

Hospital Environment ◽

Patient Treatment ◽

Single Sex ◽

Patient Interviews ◽

The United Kingdom

Abstract Background A hospital built environment can affect patients’ treatment satisfaction, which is, in turn, associated with crucial clinical outcomes. However, little research has explored which elements are specifically important for psychiatric in-patients. This study aims to identify which elements of the hospital environment are associated with higher patient satisfaction with psychiatric in-patient care. Methods The study was conducted in Italy and the United Kingdom. Data was collected through hospital visits and patient interviews. All hospitals were assessed for general characteristics, aspects specific to psychiatry (patient safety, mixed/single-sex wards, smoking on/off wards), and quality of hospital environment. Patients’ treatment satisfaction was assessed using the Client Assessment of Treatment Scale (CAT). Multi-level modelling was used to explore the role of environment in predicting the CAT scores adjusted for age, gender, education, diagnosis, and formal status. Results The study included 18 psychiatric hospitals (7 in Italy and 11 in the United Kingdom) and 2130 patients. Healthcare systems in these countries share key characteristics (e.g. National Health Service, care organised on a geographical basis) and differ in policy regulation and governance. Two elements were associated with higher patient treatment satisfaction: being hospitalised on a mixed-sex ward (p = 0.003) and the availability of rooms to meet family off wards (p = 0.020). Conclusions As hospitals are among the most expensive facilities to build, their design should be guided by research evidence. Two design features can potentially improve patient satisfaction: family rooms off wards and mixed-sex wards. This evidence should be considered when designing or renovating psychiatric facilities.

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