Nevertheless, he said, redevelopment will always be more difficult than an initial development on a greenfield.
The tests further show that the development of greenfield sites generally exhibits less sustainability than that of infill sites.
Urban planning concerns itself with both the development of open land ("greenfields sites") and the revitalization of existing parts of the city, thereby involving goal setting, data collection and analysis, forecasting, design, strategic thinking, and public consultation.
'The circumstances of this bid are completely different to a greenfield development,' said Ian Dowdle, 53, the owner of a bike shop on the tatty parade of shops that serves Bordon Whitehill.
In recent weeks, Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi has reacted angrily to the adjudication by Secretary of State for Communities Eric Pickles, who oversees planning, to give the go-ahead to a greenfield development on the edge of Stratford-upon-Avon.
We focus on a major development proposal at Ocean Beach, a greenfield coastal site in the Hawke's Bay region, and seek to explain the opposition it has provoked.
Working with community partners and the landowner, City Administration was able to pilot the HIA in a greenfield development area to meet the walkability and wellness goals of the Municipal Development Plan.
The term greenfield is used to symbolize rolling out the product onto a greenfield of grass that has never been touched.
Other changes included guidance that brownfield sites should usually be developed ahead of greenfield sites, a recognition of the "intrinsic value and beauty" of the wider countryside, specific protection for playing fields and a bar on "garden grabbing" for development.
Diageo, the biggest distiller of Scotch, has chosen a greenfield site near Alness, next to the existing Teaninich distillery.
True to its objective to support planning of buildings and settlements to conform to sustainable energy systems, it has a strong energy and environmental fundament whilst providing numerical evaluation of economic as well as social aspects of projects regarding renovation, extension or greenfield development of buildings and settlements.
