All Outputs (9)

“Planners are society’s humanisers”: The expectations and motivations of 21st planning students (2025)
Journal Article

This paper reports the first large-scale survey of planning students that focuses on their motivations for studying planning and their hopes for future practice. It reveals planning students as highly intrinsically motivated with clear desires to ach... Read More about “Planners are society’s humanisers”: The expectations and motivations of 21st planning students.

Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany (2025)
Journal Article

Delivery and enforcement have received comparatively less attention in planning practice and research than plan making and the granting of development rights. Once planning permission has been granted or a binding land use plan has been approved, th... Read More about Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany.

Consultation response to MHCLG working paper on streamlining infrastructure planning (2025)
Report

Flexibility in nationally significant infrastructure planning in England: An implementation perspective on an ongoing planning dilemma (2025)
Journal Article

Debates about flexibility in the granting of planning permission have a long history. Increased flexibility is often associated with pro-development planning and reduced control. However, flexibility can help to achieve enhanced planning outcomes and... Read More about Flexibility in nationally significant infrastructure planning in England: An implementation perspective on an ongoing planning dilemma.

Just Telling Stories? (2024)
Journal Article

Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency (2024)
Journal Article

‘The scale of the challenge dwarfs the available resources’— (un)affordable housing in the South West of England (2024)
Journal Article

The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Planning Advisory Service commissioned the University of West of England (UWE) to research the role that Local Planning Authorities (LPA) can play in delivering housing-led development on brownfield land. The research resulted in a set of case st... Read More about The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports.

The challenge of delivering affordable housing in the South West (2023)
Journal Article

Danielle Sinnett, Katie McClymont, Hannah Hickman, Zaky Fouad and Stephen Hall outline the findings of a study of housing affordability in the South West of England, suggesting that it is unlikely that current housing need assessments will deliver en... Read More about The challenge of delivering affordable housing in the South West.