Purpose – Despite the recent trend of off‐shoring branches of UK services industry to remote locations, urban theory has yet to enlist a theory of industrial rents that formally takes into account the properties of substitution between locations. The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on...

Extends the work of Smith and Storr who considered the legal and financial attributes of the purchase notice system. Covers the practical operation of the system. The administrative procedures relating to purchase notices, the way in which they are applied and the experience of the servers of...