Advantages and disadvantages of brownfield sites

Evaluation

Brownfield sites are areas of land that have been built on before and can be re-used post clearing. The advantages of using a brownfield site are firstly that it is easy to get planning permission rather than trying to get planning permission on an area that has not been built on before. It will also be cheaper to build on these sites is some aspects and this is due to the fact that road access and drainage will already been incorporated into the site. The site will also be closer to the CBD and so easy access will be promoted. City expansion will also be prevented as the site is already situated close to , or in the city. However some disadvantages are that primarily the site will need to be cleared first before the land can be used and this can take a long time and sometimes can be quite costly. Due to the site already being built up there is a limited amount of choice of what you can build on these sites and so gardens and houses may be smaller. Due to the site usually being close to the CBD the site can be expensive to buy compared to buying land further away from the CBD.