Department for Communities and Local Government. (2006). Mixed use development, practice and potential. Government of the United Kingdom.
Public policy has been an important foundation for mixed-use development through the 1990s, promoting it as a mechanism for revitalising town centres. Numerous policy instruments have addressed the concept-some directly, others more obliquely-and have effectively created a strong portfolio of national guidance on mixed-use development. Yet a recurrent theme in the debate about mixed-use development is the suggestion that there exist ac series of barriers or obstacles which are believed to prevent or inhibit the delivery.
Against this background, the study analysed the potential and actual contribution of mixed-use development schemes with a significant housing component to the revitalisation of town centres, and interrogated the obstacles to implementation, with reference to twelve case studies.
