Community Participation in Spatial Planning: Exploring Relationships between Professional and Lay Stakeholders

Curry, Nigel

Abstract

The literature that explores relationships between lay and professional stakeholders in community participation generally suggests that professionals perceive five main difficulties in working with lay people: it is unnecessary within democracies; lay people lack expertise; they are not representative; there is commonly a lack of trust, and decision-making is made more complex. In respect of spatial planning in South West England, from survey evidence these difficulties are not so apparent except in respect of complex decision-making. It is likely that the variation between the literature and the survey is influenced by the longer heritage of community participation in the spatial planning process in England, than in most other local authority services. © 2012 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: Nov 22, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 2, 2016
• Journal: Local Government Studies
• Print ISSN: 0300-3930
• Electronic ISSN: 1743-9388
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 345-366
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2011.642948
• Keywords: community participation, spatial planning, local government and public involvement in Health Act 2007, knowledge, equity, trust
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/950444
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2011.642948
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Available online 13 Jan 2012. This is an electronic version of an article published in Curry, N. (2012) Community participation in spatial planning: Exploring relationships between professional and lay stakeholders. Local Government Studies. ISSN 0300-3930. Local Government Studies is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03003930.2011.642948
• Contract Date: Dec 2, 2016