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redevelopment

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,370 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: redevelopments

Redevelopment is the rebuilding of an area to a new plan. A redevelopment scheme, town centre redevelopment, oppose the redevelopment.

It is the word every planning notice uses and every objection is about, since redevelopment usually means demolition first. Whether it improves a place depends entirely on who it was designed for.

Definitions of redevelopment

  1. 1nounredevelopmentThe rebuilding of an area to a new plan.B2+

    “The old docks are part of a huge redevelopment with new flats and shops.”

redevelopment is a rebuilding.

Where it comes from

  1. Old French

    desvelopemens — unrolling

  2. French

    développement

  3. English

    development

  4. English, today

    redevelopment

From re- + development. development comes from French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”). by surface analysis, develop + -ment. 1756.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

redevelopment in the wild

  • The name "London Docklands" was used for the first time in a government report on redevelopment plans in 1971 and has since been almost universally adopted.

    London Docklands

  • The redevelopment created wealth, but also led to some conflict between the new and old communities in the area.

    London Docklands

  • There are provisional plans for a longer term redevelopment of every stand that could create a 50,000 capacity.

    Molineux Stadium

  • Since the completion of the redevelopment in 2017 the capacity of the venue is 45,000, making it the third-largest Gaelic games stadium in Ireland.

    Páirc Uí Chaoimh

  • Though planning permission for the redevelopment of Casement Park was confirmed in July 2021, by March 2023, it remained closed.

    Casement Park

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the développement family

development

redevelopment — used about once every 13,270 pages · #12,370 · point at the bar for the others

  • develop