This topical, edited collection analyses the state of the planning system in England and offers a robust, evidence-based review of over a decade of change since the Conservative-led coalition government came to power. With a critique of ongoing planning reforms by the UK government, the book argues that the planning system is often blamed for a range of issues caused by ineffective policy making by government.
Including chapters on housing, localism, design, zoning and the consequences of Brexit for environmental planning, the contributors unpick a complicated set of recent reforms and counter the claims of the think-tank-led assault on democratic planning.
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1. Introduction – Olivier Sykes and John Sturzaker
2. The (housing) numbers game – Richard J. Dunning and Tom Moore
3. Localism: the peccadillos of a panacea – John Sturzaker and Olivier Sykes
4. Planning at the ‘larger than local’ scale: where next? – Alexander Nurse
5. PD games: death comes to planning – Richard J. Dunning, Alex Lord and Mark Smith
6. Building beauty? Place and housing quality in the planning agenda – Manuela Madeddu
7. Zoning in or zoning out? Lessons from Europe – Sebastian Dembski and Phil O’Brien
8. Planning and the Environment in England, 2010–22: cutting ‘green crap’, Brexit and environmental crises – Richard Cowell, Thomas B. Fischer and Urmila Jha Thakur
9. Stuck on infrastructure? Planning for transformative effects of transport infrastructure – Chia-Lin Chen
10. Conclusion – John Sturzaker and Olivier Sykes
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John Sturzaker is a Senior Lecturer in Planning at the University of Liverpool.