Town authorities are under pressure to open up more and more land for building.
Planning is the responsibility of local government, and, as Mr Osborne pointed out, councils already have the power to redesignate land for building.
She also notes "broader demographic themes" that will support growing bottom lines for homebuilders, such as continued immigration into the United States, a shortage of land available for building, and the market share that big builders continue to steal from the "mom and pop" outfits.
Of course our governors can encourage or mandate certain activities or stimulate or direct particular undertakings--land for railroad building in the 19th century, highway construction and space exploration in this one--but that's a far cry from directing the whole economy.
The EQC is now dealing with nearly 600, 000 separate claims for land, building or contents.
He told the Commons he wanted more "affordable" homes to be built, 25-year fixed-rate mortgages and more government-owned land to be used for building.
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It also boasted a grand civic centre, created after the marquess of Bute sold 24 hectares of land to the city for the building of public buildings in 1897.
Outreach programs are drawing more students, and the foundation is drawing up plans for a new building on land it owns next door.
For the building architect his or her mark is made on the land, but for the brand architect where is their mark made?
There is no formal contract for the land, but rather "consensus building, " he says, that results in a verbal go-ahead from the collective parties.
One reason she highlighted was a fragmented and inefficient industry, whose firms competed not for customers by offering better homes or building them more cheaply but for that scarce British commodity, land with permission to develop.
For example, Odebrecht and other firms building the stadiums for the main Olympic Park on a triangle of land jutting into a lagoon south of the city earn the right to develop half the land once the Games end.
Regional Spatial Strategies, which were introduced in 2004, set specific building targets and governed the release of land for that purpose.
Those incentives came in a variety of forms, from directly helping companies defray the cost of building plants or acquiring land, to cash bounties for each new job created.
Developers are offering home owners - especially those with large gardens - inflated prices for their properties with the intention of building flats on the land and turning a large profit.
Building turbines on land can be just as controversial, suitable locations for fixed-base shallow-water turbines are limited and a new generation of big turbines will need lots of space: only a couple can be placed in each square kilometre.
There is a campaign to stop the selling of land at Elliott School in Wandsworth to pay for renovations which were originally planned under the cancelled Building Schools for the Future scheme.
They need to offer stronger financial incentives for storm-proofing buildings and be a louder voice in influencing land-use planning and building codes so that coastal properties are better protected or not built at all.
Although there is no early prospect of a global shortage of any of the earth's resources, a larger population does change the earth and its environment, removing forests, cultivating land or building on it, and driving out other species, and that is itself a cause for legitimate concern.
The council had looked at building the arena on land owned by Montpelier Estates Ltd (MEL), but later opted for a site on Clay Pit Lane.
Long Term Leases : Purchasing land and constructing a factory and office building can take up a large part of the capital expenditure budget for a new project in China.
Our shared interest is in building peace in a war-torn land -- a peace that provides no safe haven for violent extremists, and that provide hope for the Afghan people.
The Cross Bath is a Georgian building and is recognised as a sacred site by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature's Sacred Land Project.
New tracts of land were created to establish the district of Fontvieille, by effectively building a platform over the sea, with space for new harbor facilities, a stadium, a hotel and a park dedicated to Princess Grace.
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