The Single European Market and Land Development

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.