Adam Sheppard's Outputs (13)

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.

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.

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

Planners of the future, planning for the future? (2019)
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This article considers the potential mismatch between the aspirations of planners in education and the realities of practice.

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

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

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

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