Project hindsight: Post-decision implementation
(2023)
Report
Outputs (41)
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.
The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article