Development controls for sensitive slopes

Abstract

In the past land was treated as a commodity which was bought, bartered or sold through the real estate market. When land was cheap, wetlands and hills were left alone, where land was ex­pensive it was made buildable by flattening, draining or filling. Experience however shows that land is a complicated resource and that the real estate market alone cannot handle all allocation considerations. These considerations now vest in the hands of planners.