Adam Sheppard's Outputs (32)

Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale (2021)
Journal Article

Planning, at its most basic, is about making better places. In recent years, there has been a positive renewed focus on strengthening the links between planning and the promotion of well-being and good health outcomes. This is a welcome emphasis with... Read More about Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale.

Rethinking regulation: The mundane turn in planning (2021)
Journal Article

The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article

Airbnb – another argument for a revised, not compromised, spatial management approach (2021)
Journal Article

Adam Sheppard, Harry West, Stroma Cole, Deepak Gopinath and Mojca Sonjak outline the findings of research on the extent, distribution and impact of Airbnb short-term letting in Bristol, and on whether regulatory intervention is required.

The whittling away of wonderful ideas: Post-consent and the diminution of design quality (2021)
Report

Planners of the future: Expectations, motivations, and experiences: A snapshot from 2019-2020 (2021)
Report

A sense of legitimacy in low-impact developments: Experiences and perspectives of communities in South-West England (2021)
Journal Article

Informality in the global North has been largely overlooked in literature to date (Devlin, 2018). Unlike the global South, the role of informal practices in northern countries are under-represented in both theory and practice. Despite this, informali... Read More about A sense of legitimacy in low-impact developments: Experiences and perspectives of communities in South-West England.

Getting Research into Practice (GRIP): Supporting development of local healthy planning practices (2021)
Report

Planning for the future- Response from the UWE Bristol Planning School and Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments (2020)
Other

A response to the consultation attached to Planning For the Future (https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/planning-for-the-future)

Credibility without legitimacy? Informal development in the highly regulated context of the United Kingdom (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd As the first contribution in this Special Issue's section on “informality in developed contexts”, this paper explores notions of legality, legitimacy and credibility in the United Kingdom (UK). By drawing on credibility theory, th... Read More about Credibility without legitimacy? Informal development in the highly regulated context of the United Kingdom.

Urban planning as an enabler of urban health: Challenges and good practice in England following the 2012 planning and public health reforms (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Authors This article synthesises the challenges faced by the English (urban) spatial planning system to become an enabler of urban health and explores some keys features of the evidence base, policy tools and policy implementation issues t... Read More about Urban planning as an enabler of urban health: Challenges and good practice in England following the 2012 planning and public health reforms.

The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning 2e (2019)
Book

The fully updated Short Guide to Town and Country Planning provides an concise introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with little or no prior knowledge. This second edition considers who planners are and what they do, showing how... Read More about The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning 2e.

The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning (2019)
Book

The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning provides a short, introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with little or no prior knowledge. The book considers who planners are and what they do, presents a history, considers plannin... Read More about The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning.

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.

Credibility in the absence of legitimacy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation considers the motivations for those who chose to live beyond
‘the system’; outside of mainstream regulated society and, particularly, formal town and country
planning frameworks. The paper presents research which compares the moti... Read More about Credibility in the absence of legitimacy.

The Essential Guide to Planning Law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK also viewed (2017)
Book

This comprehensive yet concise textbook provides a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law. Giving students essential background and contextual information to planning's statutory basis, the information is supported by practical... Read More about The Essential Guide to Planning Law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK also viewed.

Micro scale health decision making and the challenge of the policy and regulatory construct (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Regulatory reform and the emergence of micro scale and targeted policy in England has created the potential to manage the number and distribution of fast-food takeaways (and, arguably, uses including casinos, ‘pay-day loan’ shops, and bookmakers), bu... Read More about Micro scale health decision making and the challenge of the policy and regulatory construct.

Planning decision-making: Independence, subsidiarity, impartiality and the state (2016)
Journal Article

This paper explores recent changes that involve the Planning Inspectorate in England, considering as part of this the relevance and value of independence and impartiality in effective decision-making, together with a consideration of the significance... Read More about Planning decision-making: Independence, subsidiarity, impartiality and the state.

Planning education: exchanging approaches to teaching practice-based skills (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Planning curricula have continually evolved to meet changing societal needs, technological change and employer expectations. The professional accrediting body in the United Kingdom, the... Read More about Planning education: exchanging approaches to teaching practice-based skills.

Law and disorder: Permitted development rights and the loss of proportionate control (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Conservative led coalition government in the UK identified regulation management as a key priority and intended to simplify and address the complexity in the system. From the perspective of Development Management a paradox has emerged however; th... Read More about Law and disorder: Permitted development rights and the loss of proportionate control.

Information is Power: Public Disclosure of Information in the Planning Decision-Making Process (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The legitimacy and effectiveness of community engagement in planning lies in the extent to which the public can access the information required for informed decision-making. The control of ‘commercially sensitive material’... Read More about Information is Power: Public Disclosure of Information in the Planning Decision-Making Process.

Planning enforcement England: At the crossroads (2014)
Report

Planning Enforcement as a service, profession and activity has historically enjoyed far less focus and resources than the other elements within the planning trinity. Despite a brief renaissance during the mid-noughties the unprecedented budget cuts f... Read More about Planning enforcement England: At the crossroads.

Internationale vergelijking financiering en kostenverhaal bij organische gebiedsontwikkeling (International comparison of funding and cost recovery in organic area development) (2014)
Report

Report commissioned by Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (Netherlands). International comparison of funding and cost recovery - Chapter on England (written by Askew, A and Sheppard, A); planning gain, planning obligations and the Commun... Read More about Internationale vergelijking financiering en kostenverhaal bij organische gebiedsontwikkeling (International comparison of funding and cost recovery in organic area development).

Study skills for town and country planning (2013)
Book

Fit for purpose? Planning and food production in the peri-urban space (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A recent British Council project highlighted the important role that local food production can play in addressing climate change. But is our planning system capable supporting strategies to encourage small scale and community food production, especia... Read More about Fit for purpose? Planning and food production in the peri-urban space.

Neighbourhood planning and development management: Evolutionary localism (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Neighbourhood planning and Development Management: Evolutionary Localism

The spatial planning approach has become accepted as the progressive theoretical and professional currency in England following the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act.... Read More about Neighbourhood planning and development management: Evolutionary localism.

Development management and localism: Zeitgeist or lasting change? (2011)
Journal Article

The spatial planning approach has become accepted as the progressive theoretical and professional currency in England following the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act. The reforms which followed sought considerable change in the remit of plan... Read More about Development management and localism: Zeitgeist or lasting change?.

A review of mobile phone operators permitted development rights (2008)
Report

Valuing a service brought in from the cold
Journal Article

Enforcement services across England and Wales are, alongside many other areas of planning, under threat of cuts and a downgrading in prioritisation; and such pressures threaten to undermine a decade of positive change

Delivering homes and infrastructure through incentivisation: The role of the growth points agenda and the New Homes Bonus
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Delivering homes and infrastructure through incentivisation: the role of the growth points agenda and the New Homes Bonus

The formation of the Coalition Government has led to a dramatic change in the operation and promotion of governance, the mana... Read More about Delivering homes and infrastructure through incentivisation: The role of the growth points agenda and the New Homes Bonus.

Diversity and Convergence: Planning in a World of Change
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘Do we really want these changes?’ Power, conflict, and ‘best practice’ in community planning
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research was a collaborative project between Up Our Street (https://upourstreet.org.uk/) and the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, UWE funded and supported by the Community University Partnership Initiative, which is part of... Read More about ‘Do we really want these changes?’ Power, conflict, and ‘best practice’ in community planning.