Paul Syms
MPhil (Manchester), PhD (Sheffield Hallam)
Honorary Professor
Employment
Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, former board member RICS Environmental and Planning & Development Faculties, chair of Education Committee ISVA
Trustee, RICS Education Trust and RICS Foundation
Member, Town and Country Planning Association
Trustee and board member, Contaminated Land: applications in real environments (an environmental charity)
Member of the working group set up under the auspices of the Urban Task Force to develop a standardised format for recording land condition, founder member of the Professional and Technical Panel for Specialist in Land Condition (SiLC), a cross-disciplinary body supported by eight professional bodies
Employment
1987-1999: Senior Lecturer then Principal Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University
2000-2004: Professor of Urban Land Use, Sheffield Hallam University
2004- present: Director, National Brownfield Strategy and National Brownfield Advisor, English Partnerships, the National Regeneration Agency
2007: Appointed Honorary Professor, University of Manchester
Selected Publications
1997 - Contaminated Land: the practice and economics of redevelopment, Blackwell Science, Oxford, 308pp.
1997 - The Redevelopment of Contaminated Land for Housing Use, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and ISVA, 49pp.
1999 - Desk Reference Guide to potentially Contaminative Land Uses, ISVA in association with RICS, CIEH, 42pp.
2000 - Building Homes on Used Land, (with P Knight), RICS Books, 110pp.
2001 - Releasing Brownfields, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the RICS Foundation, 80pp.
2002 - Land, Development and Design, Blackwell Publishing, 347pp.
2004 - Previously Developed Land: Industrial Activities and Contamination, Blackwell Publishing, 240pp
2006 – The Brownfield Guide: a practitioner’s guide to land reuse in England (editor and lead author), English Partnerships, 214pp.
2003 - ‘Between Social Housing and the Market’, (with Barry Goodchild) research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, RICS Foundation.
2003 - ‘Best Practice in the Valuation of Contaminated Land’, (with Bruce Weber, Integra, California) RICS Foundation.
1998 - ‘Case studies of redevelopment in the United Kingdom’, in Turning Brownfields into Greenbacks, R. A. Simons, Urban Land Institute (USA).
1997 – ‘Perceptions of risk in the valuation of contaminated land’, Journal of Property Valuation and Investment, MCB University Press, 15, 1, 27-38.
1999 - ‘Redeveloping Brownfield Land: the decision making process’, Journal of Property Finance and Investment, MCB University Press, 17, 5, 481-500.
2003 - ‘Potential Environmental Liabilities with Industrial Properties in the United Kingdom’, (with M Jayne) Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, American Real Estate Society, 9, 3, 237-249.
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