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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
Deputy Editor
clock • 3 min read
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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