CEP News: The Evening Standard: More houses would be a better use of London land than golf courses

The Evening Standard:
More houses would be a better use of London land than golf courses

27 February 2015

The stereotype of concrete London is misleading: a fifth of all land in the Greater London Authority is green belt, according to a report by the London School of Economics, business group London First and planning firm Quod. In some boroughs, it's half. But only about a quarter of the capital's green belt is the kind of land we might expect: parks dedicated to public access, or environmentally-protected habitats. Of the rest, 76 per cent is used for agriculture, and derelict buildings such as historic hospitals and water treatment works.

This article was published in The Evening Standard on February 27, 2015
Link to article here

Related Publications
The Green Belt: A Place for Londoners?, by SERC, Quod and London First, published 24 February 2015
Turning Houses into Gold: The Failure of British Planning, Paul Cheshire. Article in CentrePiece Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2014

Related links
Paul Cheshire webpage
Spatial Economics Research Centre website

The Evening Standard:More houses would be a better use of London land than golf courses

The Evening Standard:
More houses would be a better use of London land than golf courses