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Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England

Hickman, Hannah; While, Aidan

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Authors

Hannah Hickman Hannah.Hickman@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Planning Practice

Aidan While



Abstract

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 planning. Major housing schemes have been excluded from this process, despite repeated attempts by recent UK governments to allocate more land for housebuilding through parallel reforms to the English planning system. This paper explores why Nationally Significant Infrastructure Planning (NSIP) has not been used for housing schemes, using the example of housing to reflect on debates about potential democratic deficits in the NSIP process and the selective politicisation of infrastructure planning in England. In doing so, the paper makes a distinctive contribution to practice and research by linking together debates about the politics of planning for housing in England and international literature on democratic process in the delivery of critical infrastructure.

Citation

Hickman, H., & While, A. (2023). Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England. Land Use Policy, 124, Article 106429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106429

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 29, 2022
Online Publication Date Nov 11, 2022
Publication Date Jan 1, 2023
Deposit Date Nov 1, 2022
Publicly Available Date Nov 14, 2022
Journal Land Use Policy
Print ISSN 0264-8377
Electronic ISSN 0264-8377
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 124
Article Number 106429
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106429
Keywords housing, new settlements, democracy, infrastructure planning, politics
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10111407

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