ABSTRACT
Land policy is a wide set of activities whereby governments seek to influence the use, planning, ownership, price and benefits of land, especially within the process of development. Central to this is the question of allocating the enhanced value which accrues from development. A comprehensive overview of land policy will not be provided here for it is available in a number of well established texts (see, for example: Ratcliffe 1976; Darin-Drabkin 1977; Lichfield and Darin-Drabkin 1980; Barrett and Healey 1985; Hallett 1988).
