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In fact, there is a range of opportunities for urban housing development which can be divided into six categories: 1 Large sites. These generally result from changes in industrial organisation or market demands. There are some very large sites which might have been railway sidings; dockyards made redundant by changes in freight transport; or gas-processing plants superseded by natural gas. On a more modest scale there are sites made available by changes in demand such as redundant petrol-filling stations or cinemas.

It does not take account of the land required to produce building materials and manufactured goods or land required to dispose of waste products of all sorts. Adding this in would considerably increase the footprint area. Ecological footprints can only be calculated on a regional basis, but once compiled they can be broken down to per capita figures. 1 hectares. In equity the citizens of India must be allowed the opportunity to improve their standard of living. But if everyone in the world were to live like the current inhabitants of the USA their ecological footprint would require at least two additional planets like the Earth.

The new policy developed to address this threat meant concentrating new housing on previously developed ‘brownfield’ urban sites. It also meant that new housing needed to be denser in order to reduce both land take and the need for transport, particularly car use. To achieve these ends it was essential to identify land for this new housing in the existing urban areas. On the face of it, these were already fully developed, but subsequent studies have identified significant quantities of unused and under-used land and buildings ripe for renewal.

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