Value maps : the next utility?
Sayce, Sarah ... [et al.]
Surveys among FIG Commissions 3, 7, 8 and 9 in 2002 and 2004 indicate a global trend of increased use of Value Maps. These are based on data from national property tax systems but sometimes have wider uses in both the public and private sectors. However, as yet, no such development has occurred in the United Kingdom. The paper describes a doctoral research project in the School of Surveying, Kingston University, London which used a Policy Delphi to establish the issues surrounding development of Value Maps in the UK and the indicative costs and benefits of implementing a possible Action Plan to implement a national programme of land valuation to achieve this. The research also involved visits to selected European countries (Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania) that use Value Maps and to key agencies and stakeholders in the UK. The main fieldwork was carried out in 2004-5 and consisted of three Delphi roundss of questionnaires which brought together some 30 UK-based experts and stakeholder representatives in a controlled manner that secured anonymity and mutual learning. A draft final report was presented to the Delphi Group and others in July 2005. An attempt was also made to create a demonstration dataset of a small area near Oxford, which served to illustrate the current difficulties in land valuation of England and was of limited use in support of the main strand of this research.
Event: XXIII International FIG Congress : Shaping the change
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