Spain’s evolving ‘political’ commitment to urban rehabilitation: the public policy endorsement of innovative brownfield planning practise

Abstract

This communication seeks to provide a comparative review and appraisal of the evolution of planning related legislation and guidance since the 2007 Planning Act, with a view to demonstrating that the country does indeed have a clear and ever more explicit policy position favouring brownfield development, in line with Shared international concerns for the treatment of land as a finite resource and an ever more restrictive approach to greenfield urban development.