Short-term political thinking derails land promotion and development

Ian Barnett, national land director of Leaders Romans Group warns of the perils of politics and land promotion

Alex Black
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Short-term political thinking derails land promotion and development

The process from a plan's ‘call for sites' to a land sale typically stretches beyond the length of a four-year political term. And yet development is all too easily derailed, or substantially delayed,...

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