{"id":18932,"date":"2015-07-14T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T10:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=18932"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T11:56:32","slug":"public-land-database-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/public-land-database-london\/18932\/","title":{"rendered":"Public land database for London"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span>A new initiative to create a database of publicly owned land in London has taken the first step&#8230;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The first stage of compiling a register of brownfield land in London is underway. The initiative, which is set to complete by the end of the year, will assist with home building in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Housing Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/brandon-lewis\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Brandon Lewis<\/span><\/a> announced the scheme, which will involve the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/mayor-assembly\/gla\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Greater London Authority<\/span><\/a> (GLA), 32 London boroughs, and the government.<\/p>\n<p>Real estate research firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savills.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Savills<\/span><\/a> is leading the first phase of compiling the comprehensive set of data. Once the information has been collated it will be given to the GLA to develop a map of brownfield sites across the city.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped the database will speed up development on brownfield sites and will go some way to tackling the national\u2014and indeed local\u2014housing shortage.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative is not the first time the planning system has gone digital in the capital. In 2013, Mayor of London <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/mayor-assembly\/boris-johnson\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Boris Johnson<\/span><\/a> launched a database of GLA holdings. This was part of the push to make public land readily available for redevelopment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new initiative to create a database of publicly owned land in London has taken the first step&#8230; The first stage of compiling a register of brownfield land in London is underway. The initiative, which is set to complete by the end of the year, will assist with home building in the capital. Housing Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Public land database for London | Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new initiative to create a database of publicly owned land in London has taken the first step...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/public-land-database-london\/18932\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Public land database for London\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new initiative to create a database of publicly owned land in London has taken the first step...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/public-land-database-london\/18932\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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