ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a number of examples of mixed use schemes that, despite the prevailing views noted in earlier chapters, have been undertaken by developers. There are, as was noted in Chapter 1, a range of reasons why mixed use developments might be the preferred option for development. The case study on Gloucester Green in Oxford shows one of those situations: where the land owner (in that case, Oxford City Council) expressed a preference for a mix of uses developed in an integrated manner. In the last chapter, examples were noted in London Docklands, where the landowner, the LDDC, expressed a preference for mixed uses. Other examples, such as Bradford's Forster Square development, were developed in the context of a planning brief that expressed a preference for a mix of uses. (The success or otherwise in that example is examined in greater detail in Chapter 8.) However, these are examples where the policy or landowning context established the principle of mixed use development, and the schemes followed. But in some circumstances the preference of the developer is to create a mixed use scheme.
