All Outputs (47)

Planning’s value, planners’ values: Defining and redefining for contemporary practice (2024)
Journal Article
Sturzaker, J., & Hickman, H. (2024). Planning’s value, planners’ values: Defining and redefining for contemporary practice. Planning Practice and Research, 39(2), 157-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2024.2316988

‘The scale of the challenge dwarfs the available resources’— (un)affordable housing in the South West of England (2024)
Journal Article
Mcclymont, K., Hickman, H., Hall, S., Sinnett, D., & Loveday, C. (2024). ‘The scale of the challenge dwarfs the available resources’— (un)affordable housing in the South West of England. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, 93(1), 20-25

Written evidence to the climate change, environment and infrastructure committee of the Welsh Government on the infrastructure (Wales) bill (2023)
Working Paper
Hickman, H. (2023). Written evidence to the climate change, environment and infrastructure committee of the Welsh Government on the infrastructure (Wales) bill

Project hindsight: Post-decision implementation (2023)
Report
Hickman, H., Croft, N., McClymont, K., Hall, S., & Loveday, C. (2023). Project hindsight: Post-decision implementation. https://www.nipa-uk.org/news/nipa-insights-iii-report: National Infrastructure Planning Association

The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports (2023)
Working Paper
Hickman, H., McClymont, K., Fouad, Z., Hall, S., King, L., & Windermer, R. The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports

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.

Housing affordability in the South West of England (2023)
Report
Sinnett, D., Fouad, Z., McClymont, K., Hickman, H., Loveday, C., Hall, S., …Lamond, J. (2023). Housing affordability in the South West of England. https://homesforthesouthwest.co.uk: Homes for the South West

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
Sturzaker, J., & Hickman, H. (2024). Profit or public service? Tensions and alignment in private planning practice. Planning Practice and Research, 39(2), 339-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2023.2182027

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
Hickman, H. (2023). What planners can learn from geography or what geographers have overlooked about planning. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13(1), 39-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221144837

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
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

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
Foroughmand Araabi, H., Hickman, H., & McClymont, K. (2022). On beauty. Planning Theory and Practice, 23(4), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2022.2113613

“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.

Ethical principles in an increasingly diverse planning profession: The potential impact of different types of planners (2022)
Journal Article
Hickman, H., & Sturzaker, J. (2022). Ethical principles in an increasingly diverse planning profession: The potential impact of different types of planners. Town Planning Review, 93(3), 241-249. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.43

The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article
Hickman, H., Croft, N., McClymont, K., Sheppard, A., & Foroughmand-Araabi, H. (2021). The whittling away of wonderful ideas. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, July / August 2021, 242-248

Literature review on the impacts of infrastructure on quality of life (2021)
Report
Buser, M., Griffin, E., Ricci, M., Sinnett, D., Hickman, H., Bray, I., & Chatterjee, K. (2021). Literature review on the impacts of infrastructure on quality of life. National Infrastructure Commission

The whittling away of wonderful ideas: Post-consent and the diminution of design quality (2021)
Report
Hickman, H., Croft, N., Foroughmand Araabi, H., McClymont, K., & Sheppard, A. (2021). The whittling away of wonderful ideas: Post-consent and the diminution of design quality. West of England Combined Authority

They know they can get away with it’: Housing development, divergent goals and the limits to trust (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Hickman, H., & McClymont, K. (2021, April). They know they can get away with it’: Housing development, divergent goals and the limits to trust. Presented at Housing Studies Association Conference 2021, Online

Presentation to stimulate a panel discussion at the Housing Studies Association Conference 2021 on issues of trust between local authorities and housing developers.

Planners of the future: Expectations, motivations, and experiences: A snapshot from 2019-2020 (2021)
Report
Hickman, H., McClymont, K., & Sheppard, A. (2021). Planners of the future: Expectations, motivations, and experiences: A snapshot from 2019-2020. Royal Town Planning Institute

Getting Research into Practice (GRIP): Supporting development of local healthy planning practices (2021)
Report
Ricci, M., Sinnett, D., Ige, J., Hickman, H., Sheppard, A., Croft, N., …Emery, T. (2021). Getting Research into Practice (GRIP): Supporting development of local healthy planning practices. Public Health England

Planning for the future- Response from the UWE Bristol Planning School and Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments (2020)
Other
Smith, N., Sinnett, D., McClymont, K., Sheppard, A., & Hickman, H. Planning for the future- Response from the UWE Bristol Planning School and Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments. Bristol

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
Hickman, H., & Sturzaker, J. (2020, September). Why do private sector planners do what they do? Ethics in an increasingly diverse planning profession. Paper presented at UK / Ireland Planning Research Conference, Hosted by UCL online

Planning control and the politics of soft densification (2020)
Journal Article
Hickman, H., Dunning, R., & While, A. (2020). Planning control and the politics of soft densification. Town Planning Review, 91(3), 305-324. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.17

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.