Housing on "high value" land will be sold off – putting paid to the majority of social homes in central London.
In general, spatial planning procedures do not deal well with the issue of reversibility, often because high value land uses such as urban development or mining are irreversible on a human time scale.
Hu et al. (2013) proposed CMR concepts for longwall mining to reclaim high value land resources (Hu and Chen 2016), which were successfully demonstrated in the field in Anhui Province, China.
Protected areas and its surrounding landscapes could be considered to be natural experiments for future research, where high value land uses and conservation objectives coincide within coastal areas that will face a predicted sea level rise, more intense floods and higher temperatures.
Protecting desirable, high-value lands can cost more than doing so in remote areas with few threats.
Activated carbon application remains a blunt and costly restoration tool that may only have applications in high-value lands, but results demonstrate the potential for soil-based manipulations that can be used to guide plant community development.
Some speculators just sit on high-value land they have acquired without cultivating it.
The high-value land assets, which stretch across the country, also appear to contradict the Royal Mail chief executive Moya Greene's assertions that the company is "balance-sheet insolvent".
"Our colleges and universities are giving less and less while they increase tuition and executive pay and expand their campuses, removing high-value land from the tax rolls.
Much of the high-value land given over to industrial plants, warehouses, and transport facilities lies close to the Huangpu and Suzhou rivers.
The low-priced, mostly fringe flood zones and high value agricultural lands in Dhaka are being rapidly purchased by private developers for housing projects (Fig. 4), expecting future price increase.
