[ noun ] conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936) <noun.person>
Office rents need to be at least Pounds 22 per sq ft for land to have any value at all, says to Mr Ralph Pearson of Chesterton, a property adviser.
This has stemmed from the heavy costs of holding stock, the relative fall in transport costs and the increasing dominance of the large retailers. 'The conventional warehouse of the early 1980s is now becoming increasingly outdated,' says Chesterton.
The future is dead, in the perfectly definite sense that it is not alive." _ G.K. Chesterton, English poet, critic, essayist (1874-1936).
Chesterton reports that investors are concerned about the high allocation by local authorities of land for distribution uses.