"The cost of reclaiming this
brownfield site runs into millions of pounds of taxpayers' money.
I have two very simple questions that require two very simple, factual answers: How many
brownfield sites has Kirklees Council identified in the analysis that it has been required to conduct since 2017?
Cllr Young said: "While greenfield sites play an important role in our overall housing strategy,
brownfield site development has made up the vast proportion of new housing stock since 2010 including sites such as Bishopton Road, Acklam Gardens and Ladgate Woods.
The money will help Gateshead Council clear up the
brownfield site which means they can then plough on building up to 1000 homes.
"As the city works to develop
brownfield sites throughout the Isthmus area, a partnership with the federal and state government is very instrumental," said Mayor Soglin.
The new plant will be built on a
brownfield site because Indorama sees this as more cost effective than developing a greenfield site.
I was particularly struck by his sentence: "Cardiff County Council has submitted a brave, green sustainable plan for the future of Cardiff, recommending that all future new build be on
brownfield sites not on green open spaces."
The proposed purchaser and redeveloper of a
brownfield site should carefully select the engineering firm that will complete the work.
* The cost of providing infrastructure to a greenfield site averages $50,000 to $60,000 per unit, compared to $5,000 to $10,000 per unit for a
brownfield site.
Although the changes are invisible from the outside the $70 million Montgomery Park complex utilizes a diverse environmental preservation strategy in an area surrounded by industrial
brownfield sites. Montgomery Park won the Environmental Protection Agency's Phoenix Award in 2003, recognizing environmentally compromised properties that have been returned to productive use.
The conferences organizers define a
brownfield site as a "real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant."
Gateshead's Exemplar Neighbourhood project would convert more than 100 acres of
brownfield site and former shops at the southern end of the town's High Street into housing in a community model inspired by continental Europe.