All Outputs (41)

Project hindsight: Post-decision implementation (2023)
Report

Housing affordability in the South West of England (2023)
Report

The South West faces acute problems of housing affordability. The region is conspicuously less affordable than England as a whole, and the North and Midlands in particular. These inter-regional disparities are becoming progressively more pronounced.... Read More about Housing affordability in the South West of England.

Profit or public service? Tensions and alignment in private planning practice (2023)
Journal Article

The growth of employment opportunities for planners working in the private sector has resulted in a rapid change in the composition of the planning profession in the UK, with over 40% of Royal Town Planning Institute members now employed in private p... Read More about Profit or public service? Tensions and alignment in private planning practice.

What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning (2023)
Journal Article

As fields equally concerned with the production of space and place, geographers and planners are engaged in understanding the compact city both as a concept and as a built and lived reality. In response to Haarstad et al.'s renewed agenda for researc... Read More about What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning.

Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England (2022)
Journal Article

The 2008 Planning Act introduced a new approach for determining large (‘nationally significant’) infrastructure projects in a new national process that would unify consent regimes and speed up decisions within fixed timescales outside of local planni... Read More about Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England.

On beauty (2022)
Journal Article

“Beauty,” a term that almost defies definition, can be highly emotive in its use: more emotive, we posit, than many other commonplace terms used to frame thinking about the future of space and place. Thus, the relationship between beauty, decision ma... Read More about On beauty.

Ethical principles in an increasingly diverse planning profession: The potential impact of different types of planners (2022)
Journal Article

The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article

Literature review on the impacts of infrastructure on quality of life (2021)
Report

The whittling away of wonderful ideas: Post-consent and the diminution of design quality (2021)
Report

They know they can get away with it’: Housing development, divergent goals and the limits to trust (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation to stimulate a panel discussion at the Housing Studies Association Conference 2021 on issues of trust between local authorities and housing developers.

Planners of the future: Expectations, motivations, and experiences: A snapshot from 2019-2020 (2021)
Report

Getting Research into Practice (GRIP): Supporting development of local healthy planning practices (2021)
Report

Planning for the future- Response from the UWE Bristol Planning School and Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments (2020)
Other

A response to the consultation attached to Planning For the Future (https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-for-the-future)

Why do private sector planners do what they do? Ethics in an increasingly diverse planning profession (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Planning control and the politics of soft densification (2020)
Journal Article

Increasing the density of existing urban areas can support urban regeneration and environmental sustainability by limiting urban sprawl and linking housing to transport infrastructure. However, making space for 'soft densification'-small-scale increm... Read More about Planning control and the politics of soft densification.

‘The object is to change the heart and soul’: Financial incentives, planning and opposition to new housebuilding in England (2020)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2020. In 2014 the UK government announced plans to reduce opposition to housing development by making a direct payment to households in England. 1 This was part of a wider experiment with behavioural economics and financial inducement... Read More about ‘The object is to change the heart and soul’: Financial incentives, planning and opposition to new housebuilding in England.

‘If independence goes, the planning system goes’: New Political Governance and the English Planning Inspectorate (2020)
Journal Article

Radical restructuring of 'arms-length' government bodies following the 2010 UK national election signalled a change in relations between government and the civil service. This was seen as a major shift in modes of governance from 'new public manageme... Read More about ‘If independence goes, the planning system goes’: New Political Governance and the English Planning Inspectorate.

A Smarter Approach to Infrastructure Planning (2019)
Report

Integrated infrastructure planning: The role of territorial governance frameworks in making a difference (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution