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The United Kingdom has one of the most restrictive systems of planning control in the world, and one which has become more restrictive over the sixty years it has been in existence. The most obvious effect of this long lasting constraint on the availability of land for urban use is that the price of land with planning permission for urban development may be a thousand times higher than the price of an adjacent piece of agricultural land for which permission for urban development would be unobtainable.