ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some of the interrelationships between land-use planning and housing. It examines a number of other ways in which the interests of suppliers of housing services may diverge from the social interest. It then analyses only some of the ways in which policy on land-use influences the housing sector and shapes the conditions within which housing policy must operate. The chapter starts with the problem of design control, beginning with the individual housing development and the development of new estates. It goes on to consider strategic controls over housing within both private and public sector. A large number of policy instruments have been used by government to influence the urban renewal process, including direct intervention by means of public housing schemes. Finally, the influence of land-use controls over the process of urban renewal is analysed. The aim here is to relate the description of the urban renewal process with the observed problems in real life.
