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He said: What the Committee have said is that the word brown-field have become pretty familiar to people and it would be helpful to have reference to that.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Christopher Hope 2011
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The National Trust is pushing for the government's draft law to be revised to say that developers should first build on previously developed land, known as brown-field sites.
unknown title 2011
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For example, shares of Potash of Saskatchewan (POT) got hammered on news that a competitor Agrium (AGU) has "made progress" on opening a brown-field potash mine, and on news that Brazil's Vale is about to get into the potash business by opening a Greenfield mine.
James Jubak: What's the Matter With ...? (Fill in the Blank with Your Favorite Stock) 2009
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We developed horticultural engineering projects like urban forestry, green roofing, brown-field remediation, and river/wetland restoration and stabilization.
Majora Carter: Our Most 'Expensive' Citizens Can Become Our Climate Change Heroes 2009
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Westfield Group (WDC), the world's largest owner of shopping centers, constructed its 1.45 billion-pound ($2.2 billion) Stratford City Mall on a brown-field site in east London, said Duncan Bower, its director of development and asset management.
unknown title 2011
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Ministers are also looking at including a requirement that councils have to try to build on brown-field or previously developed sites.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Christopher Hope 2011
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Specifically he suggested that the axed 'brown-field first' rule - which exists in current planning rules - would be written back into planning regulations, after it was dropped from the draft planning framework.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Christopher Hope 2011
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It is not a perfect fix for the city, which had industrial brown-field rehab in mind, or for the team's owner, Bob Young, who dreamed of a more visible location next to a highway.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed STEPHEN BRUNT 2011
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He also called for ministers to write back into the rules a presumption that previously developed or brown-field land should be built on ahead of green-field sites.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Christopher Hope 2011
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The government and civil servants are looking at strengthening the brown-field- first policy.
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