http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk The latest issues affecting land developers, land owners and land buyers. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/horses-everywhere.asp Find out more about the increased demand for equestrian land and how you can benefit from this. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/biofuels.asp Land values are at an all time high after the increased interest in land use for the increasingly important biofuels. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/planners-countryside-pressure.asp Countryside campaigners in the West Midlands say the Regional Assembly must stand firm against Government pressure to greatly increase housing numbers in the countryside. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/equestrian-grazing-land.asp Managing grassland for horses - a look at the British Grassland Society equestrian workshop. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/farmland-record-value.asp Farmland values in England have increased 14 per cent over the past year. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/bp-green-belt-land.asp BP is set to make around GBP 6bn by building homes on green belt land in East Herts, campaigners claim. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/backgarden-development-campaign.asp Campaigners protest against infill development on brownfield back gardens. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/greenbelt-development.asp 10,000 acres of greenbelt land may be developed according to research by The Guardian and the CPRE. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/agricultural-land-price-boom.asp Land values in the Fens have rocketed in the past year. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/greenfield-development.asp The government are set to force local councils to mark out new greenfield areas for development to replace brownfield windfall sites. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/farmland-prices-up.asp Continued growth of agricultural land values is expected due to a relatively short supply of farmland. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/countryside-playground.asp There is a danger of making the countryside a place for the wealthy at the expense of local people. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/tightening-the-green-belt.asp The green belt is planning's gold standard, beloved of environmentalists and middle England alike. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/land-price-rise.asp Arable land prices rise by 7.5 per cent in 2006. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/cpregreenbelt.asp It was the CPRE that helped instigate the "green belt" system 50 years ago. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/crawlydevelopment.asp The Government has over-ruled Crawley Council and given building permission for the largest residential development in the town's history. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/farmland-prices-soar.asp The price of farmland has risen by 9% in the past year, fuelled by a surge in the number of "lifestyle buyers". http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/urban-planning-system.asp Ministers have formally begun consultations on a new housing and planning delivery grant (HPDG). http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/urban-planning-system.asp Call for planning system to be faster and cheaper for companies to obtain building permits. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/green-belt-built-on.asp 35 acres of land in Bath are to be removed from the green belt with the potential to be built on. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/bananas.asp Conservative leader David Cameron, accuses the Labour Party of a failure to build an "adequate" number of new homes. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/prescottshire.asp Proposals to build at least 10,000 new homes on Green Belt land in Hertfordshire. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/priest-hill-green-belt.asp Environmentalists and neighbours oppose a development bid for planning permission to build 90 homes on Surrey Green Belt. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/building-on-green-belt.asp Figures obtained by the Telegraph have revealed a 60% rise in development on green belt land. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/barker-review.asp Kate Barker, who is also a Housing Corporation board member, has been asked to rethink how planning policy should be overhauled, following the Treasury's review of housing supply to pinpoint more blockages in the planning system. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/green-belt-backing.asp John Prescott has given his backing to one of the biggest building schemes approved on green belt land. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/urban-regeneration.asp Wales has gained a reputation for urban regeneration thanks to areas of redevelopment that have taken place where the Welsh coal industry once stood. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/loosen-green-belt.asp Edinburgh's green belt is, as with most green belt land, a controversial subject. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/wrecked-countryside.asp A wave of house building across the UK will do little to help those in greatest housing need. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/greenbelt-review.asp All greenbelt land will be examined to see if it should be developed or protected. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/speedwell-green-belt.asp Developer given the green light to build 35 dwellings on green belt after being turned down twice. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/affordable-housing.asp John Prescott has today announced nine organisations that have taken up the challenge to build 'affordable housing' for GBP 60,000. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/woodland-ownership.asp Why buy woodland when many of us are within driving distance of a public woodland? http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/green-belt-50.asp The Green Belt is officially 50 years old today yet there's little to celebrate - green belt land is under threat from development as never before. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/brownfield-nevermind.asp Land is now at such a premium that local authorities in areas of high housing demand, could be forced to make land available, regardless of the environmental impact. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/allotment-owner-windfall.asp Allotment owners offered 28,000 GBP per plot by a property developer. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/olympic-land-remediation.asp The Olympics in 2012 will see remediation of one of the largest contaminated sites in the south east. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/greenbelt-developers.asp Developers are putting the government under pressure to release 1,200 acres of greenbelt land for 14,000 new homes in the heart of the Thames Gateway growth area. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/green-belt-sharks.asp Speculators are selling plots within green belt land, holding out to buyers the prospect that a government which is already nibbling hungrily at the green belt in several areas will soon allow planning consents to be given in others. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/brownfield-soils.asp The decontamination of land has moved on in leaps and bounds, particularly in helping brownfield development, however agriculture is causing damage to soil. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/brownfield-building.asp Statistics have revealed that building new homes being built on brownfield land is at an all time high. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/government-land-release.asp Hundreds of Government owned sites are set to be released to provide affordable housing for first-time buyers. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/farmland-investment.asp With house prices stagnating, investing in farmland may prove to be the alternative property investment. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/halal-land.asp Financial and investment products that meet the requirements of Shariah law are still comparatively thin on the ground. Land investment provides an alternative. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/beach-plot.asp A patch of sand in a popular Welsh seaside resort was sold for 63,000 GBP. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/brownfield-hell.asp The European Court ruled that all such spilled contaminants were "legal waste", which is fair enough, but they went on to decide that the soils which they have contaminated are also "waste"... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/nimby-backyard.asp There's a lot of speculation in the media at the moment about the possibilities of mass development on the greenbelt... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/liability-contaminated-land.asp WSP Environmental are heralding a new scheme - bespoke liability for contaminated land... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/paragon-park.asp Developers behind one of Coventrysbiggest ever building projects face D-Day when the official application goes before the council's planning committee.... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/valuable-shack.asp Land scarcity becomes a real problem, and the hunt for useful Brownfield sites continues to increase... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/land-bank-future.asp Regeneration specialists St Modwen Properties bought 1,600 acres of development land last year yet still produced its twelfth successive year of record results... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/land-shares.asp A new venture launches today, Land Initiatives Plc brings land investment to a new level - offering shares in prime development land... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/farmland-flee.asp Rural land prices are still rising strongly, but a report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the exodus of good-lifers from urban areas has slowed... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/prescott-alarm.asp 20-year proposal to build 640,000 homes will be launched by the Southeast Regional Assembly... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/storm-green-belt-homes.htm Thousands of homes could 'overwhelm' Stourport under new plans to change the status of green belt land, Wyre Forest councillors fear... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/development-land-record.asp A new record price for residential development land has been set with the sale of an 11.3 acre site at Stillorgan in south county Dublin for 85m euro... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/homing-in.asp Housing approval rates are set to increase by a third from the present 6,000 homes per year to around 8,000 in 2007/08.... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/development-land-tax.asp The spectre of a Development Land Tax returning to haunt the whole process is a very real threat to development, especially if proposed works are financially marginal... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/farmland-price.asp The price of farmland has risen by nearly a third in the past year as a new breed of non-farming buyers look to fields as an alternative to bricks and mortar or the stock market... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/housing-targets.asp SEERA is today considering proposals to increase the new homes target and the prospect of 720,000 new homes over the next 20 years... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/woods-for-sale.asp When lan and Nina Graham spotted the 'Woods for Sale' sign on the side of the A40 earlier this year the same idea occurred to them both instantly... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/eera-housing.asp 478,000 new homes will be built in the region - which covers the six counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk - up to 2021... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/panel-backs-housing.asp A controversial plan to build nearly 500,000 homes across east England has been given initial backing... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/stevenage-influx.asp Old town residents regret threat to green belt as Prescott's housing redevelopment plans take shape... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/decision-due-on-greenbelt-land.asp A decision is due on whether 56 hectares of greenbelt land in Sutton Coldfield will be retained as a site for major investment... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/fury-green-belt-homes.asp Residents campaigning to protect a green belt site on the outskirts of Edinburgh have been dealt a major blow after the land was earmarked for housing development by the Scottish Executive. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/uk-land-ownership.asp The spread of land ownership is a great good cause, much neglected in England. It's time to revive it... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/families-home-battle.asp More than 100 families have united to fight for their homes, due for demolition in a 6m GBP Kensington regeneration project... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/greenbelt-homes-go-ahead.asp A row broke out today after councillors in Glasgow signed a deal to build upmarket houses on greenbelt land... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/land-demand-booms.asp The price of farmland is up to record highs as demand continues to outstrip supply. Increasing numbers of people are opting to quit the rat race and move out of cities across the country, boosting the cost of farmland... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/thames-gateway-homes.asp The government's plans to build 120,000 new homes in the Thames Gateway by 2016 will not work without a series of new and improved transport facilities, an official report warned today... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/green-belt-decision.asp Another controversial green belt housing development is under the spotlight this week after the recent explosion of objection to the plan for Top Wighay Farm in Hucknall... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/brownfield-housing-rises.asp Planning authorities have upped their estimate of how many houses could be built on previously developed land in England despite the amount of brownfield land available for development remaining unchanged... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/prescott-stealth-planning.asp Mr Prescott is pushing through his plans to see 1,400,000 new homes built in the next 20 years... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/green-belt-rules-change.asp Rules that govern green-belt areas around Scotland's towns and cities are to be overhauled, ministers announced yesterday. The Scottish Executive said a review of current policy was needed because of increasing pressure from building developers. http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/house-plan-transformation.asp A Sheffield community could change dramatically if plans to build 91 homes on an industrial site are granted planning permission... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/farmland-values.asp Farmland values rose by nearly 10% during the first six months of 2004 as a result of limited supply and renewed demand from prospective buyers, according to the latest rural research... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/self-build-country-plans.asp Ministers have changed planning rules for the countryside to favour 'innovative cutting-edge designs' over traditional country house styles... http://www.lawsonfairbank.co.uk/green-belt-review.asp A review of green belts is needed to help make way for 70,000 new homes in Beds, Bucks and Northants according to a government report. The extra housing, to be built by 2021, comes on top of the 100,000 homes already earmarked to be completed over the next 20 years.