An investigation into exploring issues preventing developers from creating sustainable new housing in urban areas of the UK.

Karami, Khaleq (2015) An investigation into exploring issues preventing developers from creating sustainable new housing in urban areas of the UK. [Dissertation]

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Abstract

This research focuses on investigation into explore issues preventing having developer from creating sustainable new housing in urban areas in the UK. Focus for the research will Identify the effect of what prevents developers from creating sustainable new housing in the urban areas in the UK. Social conditions determine the quality of life and the challenge of providing sustainable new housing that sustain its inhabitant socially, economically and environmentally. The literature review findings clearly shows that there is a challenge of providing sustainable new housing in the urban areas in the UK and problem emerging such as unemployment, unhealthy, poverty, crime and rising population in urban areas.
The methodology was chosen to carry out the research as quantitative for empiric data collection analysis in order to be able to generalize more freely from the findings and achieve the aim objective in section 1.3. Quantitative research is objective research, with the aim to discover answers to questions and gather data which is quantifiable. The main reason for the chosen quantitative methodology is that many types of information will therefore not be described in this study, because the subjects will not have the opportunity to express them. The study was not qualitative description of the matter but instead finding general patterns.
The outcome of the research obtained from the descriptive analysis that prevent developers from creating sustainable new housing in the urban areas in the UK is costs issues. 69%, of respondents stated that costs to create sustainable new housing are not met in an effective manner. However, the implementation of creating sustainable new housing in the urban areas in the UK, the developers come out to be sufficiently effective as 24,68% of the respondents rate that implementation was effective while the remaining 8, 23% referred it as partially effective or ineffective. New sustainable housing in the UK have key issues, because of a lack of sustainable new housing in the urban areas in the UK it costs the (NHS) at least £600m every year. But environment bodies in the UK are playing their roles to help and encourage developers to create sustainable new housing in the urban areas in the UK.
Keywords: Investigation into explore issues preventing developers from creating sustainable new housing in urban areas in the UK, identify the impact of sustainable new housing that causes effects of unsustainable housing in the UK.


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