Katie McClymont's Outputs (46)

Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany (2025)
Journal Article

Delivery and enforcement have received comparatively less attention in planning practice and research than plan making and the granting of development rights. Once planning permission has been granted or a binding land use plan has been approved, th... Read More about Negotiated, approved … ignored? Regulating development after approval in England and Germany.

Consultation response to MHCLG working paper on streamlining infrastructure planning (2025)
Report

Flexibility in nationally significant infrastructure planning in England: An implementation perspective on an ongoing planning dilemma (2025)
Journal Article

Debates about flexibility in the granting of planning permission have a long history. Increased flexibility is often associated with pro-development planning and reduced control. However, flexibility can help to achieve enhanced planning outcomes and... Read More about Flexibility in nationally significant infrastructure planning in England: An implementation perspective on an ongoing planning dilemma.

Just Telling Stories? (2024)
Journal Article

Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency (2024)
Journal Article

‘The scale of the challenge dwarfs the available resources’— (un)affordable housing in the South West of England (2024)
Journal Article

Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review (2023)
Journal Article

Community Led Housing (CLH) is an umbrella term encompassing several non-profit models of housing delivery, which is used internationally. There has been little comprehensive assessment of the health impacts of housing arrangements where people inten... Read More about Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review.

Project hindsight: Post-decision implementation (2023)
Report

The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

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.

The challenge of delivering affordable housing in the South West (2023)
Journal Article

Danielle Sinnett, Katie McClymont, Hannah Hickman, Zaky Fouad and Stephen Hall outline the findings of a study of housing affordability in the South West of England, suggesting that it is unlikely that current housing need assessments will deliver en... Read More about The challenge of delivering affordable housing in the South West.

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.

Temporalities of cemeteries: The tensions and flows of perpetuity and change in ‘slow’ places (2023)
Journal Article

Cemeteries in the UK and Ireland are typically viewed as a final ‘place of rest’ for the deceased where their remains will not be disturbed. This sense is at least in some part created by the norm of in-perpetuity grave rights in these countries. Yet... Read More about Temporalities of cemeteries: The tensions and flows of perpetuity and change in ‘slow’ places.

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.

Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices (2022)
Journal Article

In this paper we explore migrants' and minorities' memories and memory-making associated with death, funerary and remembrance practices, with particular attention to how this intersects with experiences of migration and/or being part of a cultural or... Read More about Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices.

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.

Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services (2021)
Journal Article

Cemeteries are often included in typologies of green infrastructure features, but there has been little exploration of their role within a multifunctional network of green infrastructure. This paper uses national greenspace data to map the contributi... Read More about Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services.

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

Death in the peripheries: Planning for minority ethnic groups beyond “the City” (2021)
Journal Article

“Deathscapes” constitute a growing field of research, yet the topic remains widely neglected within urban planning. In this paper, we examine the adequacy of existing provision for death, remembrance, and the disposal of body remains for ethnic minor... Read More about Death in the peripheries: Planning for minority ethnic groups beyond “the City”.

The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article

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