Planning’s value, planners’ values: Defining and redefining for contemporary practice
(2024)
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Hannah Hickman's Outputs (18)
The challenge of delivering affordable housing in the South West (2023)
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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.
Profit or public service? Tensions and alignment in private planning practice (2023)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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“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)
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Planning control and the politics of soft densification (2020)
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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)
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© 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)
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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.
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.
“Between a rock and a hard place”: Planning reform, localism and the role of the planning inspectorate in England (2018)
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Like many European countries, England saw the establishment in the late 1990s and early twenty-first century of regional-scale spatial planning. Radical reform of English planning following the Localism Act 2011 however saw the whole intermediate tie... Read More about “Between a rock and a hard place”: Planning reform, localism and the role of the planning inspectorate in England.
The truth about 'soft densification' (2017)
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A blog piece for the RTPI on research about the impact of soft-densification on urban areas.
Caution: examinations in progress - the operation of neighbourhood plan examinations in England (2016)
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Gavin Parker, Kat Salter and Hannah Hickman look at what experience to date tells us about how the examination stage in the neighbourhood plan production process is being undertaken, and the issues and associated questions emerging from that experien... Read More about Caution: examinations in progress - the operation of neighbourhood plan examinations in England.
The 'Cambridge Phenomenon' and the challenge of planning reform (2016)
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The 'Cambridge Phenomenon' has achieved global recognition as an exemplar of economic success. After decades of post-war planning restraint, a major shift in the strategic planning framework saw the city region enthusiastically backing future growth.... Read More about The 'Cambridge Phenomenon' and the challenge of planning reform.
The demise of strategic planning? the impact of the abolition of Regional Spatial Strategy in a growth region (2013)
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Strategic planning has long been at the heart of the post-war statutory planning framework. From 1968, this took the form of structure plans. In 2004, however, these were replaced by Regional Spatial Strategies (RSS). Then in May 2010, the Conservati... Read More about The demise of strategic planning? the impact of the abolition of Regional Spatial Strategy in a growth region.