Sugar factories and advancing urbanization: Planning regulation issues andpossible remedies

Sugar factories are potentially a source of emissions and are subject to ap proval under emission regulations. This can create difficulties if a real e state development entitled to protection (e.g. a residential development) c omes too close to a sugar factory. This article looks at such situations. A fter laying out the problems involved, it describes the movements under pla nning regulations signalling advancing real estate development and how they may be recognized by a sugar factory operator. This leads to a discussion of the legal position of the sugar factory operator in the face of advancin g real estate development. There follows a description of the practical ste ps that can be taken to safeguard the site, both to the end of warding off advancing real estate development and for the precautionary assertion of th e security of a sugar factory site. A concluding section offers concrete pr actical recommendations as to how negative tendencies affecting the site of a sugar factory may be recognized and countered as early as possible.