School of the Built Environment

Welcome

The Centre for Research on Property and Planning (RPP) embraces activities across a wide spectrum but with a distinguishing characteristic driven by development, investment and user perspectives. The Centre has successfully sought to operate at different levels: international, national, regional and local with a focus on applied and empirical aspects of research which have policy implications. The transfer of knowledge and best practice lies at the core of the activities within RPP and is reflected in the diversity of output and different media to disseminate the results of research activity.

Research within RPP is organised into five main sub-groups: regeneration, property valuation and taxation, housing, transportation and spatial planning, and globalisation and emerging markets. Each sub-group is responsible for leading research activity in the area, via commissioned research grants, and through working with partner institutions in the public and private sectors. A senior member of academic staff coordinates each sub-group and is supported by other members of academic staff in the School of the Built Environment, contract research staff and doctoral students.