0 used to refer to an area of land in a town or city that was previously used for industry and where new buildings can be built:
Planners are committed to developing the city's brownfield sites before granting permission to build on the rural outskirts.
1 an area in a town or city that has been used in the past for factories or offices, and that could now be used for new building development:
Officials have identified 15 brownfields that take up 40 acres of land inside the city limits.
Where will it build them, because it has used up all its brownfield land and there is not much greenfield land?
I hope to make three constructive points in the debate about greenfield and brownfield site developments.
The key to increasing brownfield development in both south and north is to find imaginative ways by which the density of development can be increased.
This involves making the best possible use of brownfield sites in urban areas to accommodate new homes.
We must, once and for all, reduce land use and re-use brownfield sites.
A brownfield development may be close to a densely populated area of housing.
We have got to understand that one of the biggest brakes on our ability to develop brownfield sites is the slowness of the planning system.
A focus must be put on brownfield developments—that is generally accepted—and every attempt will be made to resist the development of the green belt.
