Hannah Hickman's Outputs (51)
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.
Strategic planning in England – Current practice and future directions (2024)
Report
This report presents the findings of research commissioned by the Royal Town Planning Institute to provide evidence on the nature, scope and efficacy and potential of current approaches to strategic planning policy and practice in 2024.
It shows wid... Read More about Strategic planning in England – Current practice and future directions.
Planning’s value, planners’ values: Defining and redefining for contemporary practice (2024)
Journal Article
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.
Profit or public service? Tensions and alignment in private planning practice (2023)
Journal Article
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
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)
Journal Article
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)
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.
The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article
They know they can get away with it’: Housing development, divergent goals and the limits to trust (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Presentation to stimulate a panel discussion at the Housing Studies Association Conference 2021 on issues of trust between local authorities and housing developers.