Project hindsight: Post-decision implementation
(2023)
Report
All 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
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.
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
Planners of the future, planning for the future? (2019)
Journal Article
This article considers the potential mismatch between the aspirations of planners in education and the realities of practice.