ABSTRACT
The intention in this chapter is not to discuss in detail the development process, a subject covered in all its complexity elsewhere (Gore and Nicholson, 1991; Healey, 1991, 1992; Adams, 1994; Cadman and Topping, 1998). Instead, drawing on Carmona’s (2001b, Chapter 4) earlier more detailed discussion of the private housing development process, this chapter examines the particular nature of the private housebuilding process, and in so doing attempts to clarify why new-build private housing development so often takes the form it does. Before focusing on the particular characteristics of the housebuilding industry, it is appropriate to briefly discuss a few of the more generic characteristics of the private sector development process.
