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Driven by the pressure
of government targets and the necessity
for more houses to meet the increasing
number of households, builders are responding
in a variety of ways. The government has
an expectation that 60% of all new housing
will be built on brownfield sites. The
guidelines issued by John Prescott, in
his former role in charge of the department
responsible for housing, meant that application
for planning on brownfield sites would
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Builders are looking
for derelict or disused land, for example,
former industrial areas and old railway
sidings and also older houses with large
gardens.
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The definition of brownfield
sites was assumed by most people to mean ex-industrial
land However homes and gardens are also classified
as being previously developed or brownfield sites.
Many builders have taken the opportunity to buy
up older, cheaper houses with a decent sized piece
of land. They then demolish or partly demolish
and rebuild blocks of flats on the land. |
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This can be seen as being
advantageous by helping the government meet
the housing needs of the population, however
it does have the drawback of losing the gardens
attached to the houses. Local government needs
to control planning consent to ensure that neighbourhoods
are not spoilt by too many over enthusiastic
builders carrying out this process indiscriminately.
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LandSearch helps in identifying
who owns property and land. Through our Land Registry
Department we are able to search the whole of
the United Kingdom and Ireland We can identify
who owns particular pieces of land or property
especially when they may appear derelict or have
no postal address.
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This can be done without
the knowledge of the owners of the land or property
as this information is in the public domain. This
enables research to be carried out without
disturbing the owners or alerting competitors. |
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LandSearch are the leading
independent online suppliers of Land Registry
information for all of the UK and Ireland. We
can identify the ownership of registered land
even when there is no postal address. We can supply
maps so that clear identification can be made.
This applies to derelict sites, waste land, gaps
between developed properties etc. Landsearch can
supply main title deeds and searches, name of
owner searches, even with no postal address, index
maps, home information packs, rights of way and
rights of access searches, boundary dispute searches,
history and manorial searches, bankruptcy and
company searches, local authority and environmental
searches and more. |
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