The Single European Market and Land Development

Abstract

The Single European Market could conceivably make a deep impact on established practices of land development. Changes to the explicit and implicit rules that have hitherto governed the land market will re-shape the actions of agencies. Rules on state aid and public procurement are particularly pertinent to land development. European regulations on state aid have ended the system of gap funding for the regeneration of brownfields in the United Kingdom and public procurement rules may put an end to land-development contracts in which owners provide the local government with infrastructure in kind.

Keywords:

• Public procurement
• state aid
• development planning
• development agreements
• European Union

Acknowledgements

This article was written as part of the project Process and Systems Innovation in the Building and Construction Industry (PSIB). The author wishes to thank Demetrio Muñoz Gielen for his information on the situation in Spain.