Meeting the Housing Challenge

Legacy development involves a landowner’s long-term interest in the development of land, with more involvement and control over the design of the scheme than might be within the controls of the planning process.

The key motivations of legacy development include higher quality design of attractive homes which offer better long-term financial returns; 
a development with better placemaking and social outcomes more in tune with local need; a more responsible approach towards protecting and enhancing the environment, or ideally a combination of some or all of these. Stewardship does this through effective land management, considered design and development, and carefully targeted investment.

The usual pattern of development in the UK today has been honed by many decades of increasingly heavy and disparate regulation that has seen planning delays and financial risk soar with the result that the number of small and medium sized developers has been squeezed down to unprecedentedly low levels. 

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