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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. (in press). Profit or public service? Tensions and alignment in private planning practice. Planning Practice and Research, 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.