{"id":935,"date":"2021-05-25T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archidust.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2022-06-11T08:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T08:45:04","slug":"rics-launches-new-global-guidance-for-land-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archidust.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/25\/rics-launches-new-global-guidance-for-land-measurement\/","title":{"rendered":"RICS launches new global guidance for \u2018Land Measurement\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"archi-2029368982\" class=\"archi-before-content-horizontal-2 archi-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Horizontal responsive -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1313562808736279\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4811561488\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div><div id=\"archi-3330829301\" class=\"archi-before-content-horizontal archi-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Horizontal responsive -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1313562808736279\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4811561488\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New guidance on the measurement of land for development projects such as new housing and commercial development have been published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors today (25 May 2021), which defines common measurements used across the built environment and associated metrics such as density.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The guidance is now available and will be used by planners, surveyors, developers, architects, government and legal administrators around the world.<\/p><div id=\"archi-2737311029\" class=\"archi-in-content-square archi-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Square responsive -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1313562808736279\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2313495938\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div><div id=\"archi-3927355556\" class=\"archi-in-content-square-2 archi-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Square responsive -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1313562808736279\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2313495938\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titled \u2018Measurement of Land for Planning and Development Purposes\u2019, it\u00a0provides clear definitions for measurements widely used in the property and built environment sectors, advocating\u00a0consistency worldwide. Five core definitions have now been formalised by RICS to assist with the global measurement of land, they are:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>Land Ownership Area (LOA)<\/strong>: an area of land, measured on a horizontal plane, which is held in a single legal interest or title by one or more legal owners, which may be the subject of a proposed or actual sale, letting or other disposal, valuation or compulsory purchase, and which may comprise all or part of that single legal interest or title.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Site Area (SA)<\/strong>: the total land area on which development authorisation is sought, measured on a horizontal plane.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Net Development Area (NDA)<\/strong>: the\u00a0extent of the Site Area upon which\u00a0one or more buildings or other operations and their ancillary\u00a0space can be built, measured on a horizontal plane.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plot Ratio (PR)<\/strong>: the ratio of total development floor area to SA. Development floor area may be measured as gross external area (GEA) or gross internal area (GIA) but whichever is used or modifications of them should be clearly stated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Floor Area Ratio (FAR) and Floorspace Ratio (FSR)<em>\u00a0<\/em>are similar terms, used interchangeably in some jurisdictions to reference the same point. For consistency, PR should be used wherever possible. Where jurisdictional requirements are for the use of either FAR or FSR, PR should be reported as well.<\/p><div id=\"archi-3135143364\" class=\"archi-horizontal-in-content archi-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Horizontal responsive -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1313562808736279\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4811561488\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>Site Coverage (SC)<\/strong>: the ratio of ground floor area (measured in accordance with GEA) to SA, expressed as a percentage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A key difference with the new guidelines is that calculations of density should now always be expressed in terms of Gross Density (based on SA), rather than on a Net basis, with Net Density providing an additional and complementary metric for understanding the intensity of development of a site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The formal Guidance for Land Measurement can be read<\/strong>\u00a0[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rics.org\/uk\/upholding-professional-standards\/sector-standards\/land\/land-measurement-for-planning-and-development-purposes-global-guidance-note-1st-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.rics.org\/uk\/upholding-professional-standards\/sector-standards\/land\/land-measurement-for-planning-and-development-purposes-global-guidance-note-1st-edition&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622039506958000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTBXwi_43Jn0RmRxR2h_bN2fQGwg\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The guidance is lead-authored by one of Britain\u2019s foremost urbanists, chartered surveyor and town planner\u00a0Jonathan Manns, Executive Director at Rockwell, who said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cLand measurement is a vital day-to-day component of real estate and this Guidance introduces, for the first time, clear and fixed definitions to assist with that process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cIn doing so it establishes international best practice to be used whether buying, selling, evaluating, valuing or developing land.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cThis has the potential to profoundly improve consistency, once in regular use, to the benefit of both professionals and the general public alike, in countries around the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With over 130,000 qualified and trainee professionals, the RICS promotes and enforces the highest international standards across the built and natural environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tony Mulhall MRICS, Associate Director of the Land Professional Group at the RICS, stated:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cThis guidance offers a consistent way to measure land \u2013 whether that\u2019s delivering desperately needed homes, new infrastructure or preparing vacant spaces for future development.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"archi-2916687025\" class=\"archi-after-content archi-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Square responsive -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1313562808736279\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2313495938\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New guidance on the measurement of land for development projects such as new housing and commercial development have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[292,291],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.9 - 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