The March Budget set out the Government's vision that station sites provide excellent opportunities to deliver new housing.
It confirmed that the Homes and Communities Agency would work in partnership with Network Rail, and local authorities, to provide land around stations for housing, commercial development and regeneration.
However, while the rhetoric is good, stations sites are some of the most complex in the country. Our planning team set out some of the key issues that will need to be addressed to make the ambitions a reality.