Quicker To Build Homes On Brownfield Sites

Housing developments on brownfield sites are completed more quickly than those on greenfield land. While the time between planning permission and work starting is generally the same for brownfield and greenfield sites, brownfield developments are finished more than six months sooner, research for the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) found. The research looked at 1,040 developments with active planning consent during three years up to March 2015 in 15 urban and urban-rural fringe local authorities. Both types of site - brownfield and previously undeveloped, or greenfield, land - took an average of 29 weeks to start after they had secured planning permission. But brownfield sites then took an average of 63 weeks to be completed, in comparison with 92 weeks for greenfield sites. Read more on the Daily Mail website.