Exploration of how neighbourhoods and others have responded to the UK government’s localism agend... more Exploration of how neighbourhoods and others have responded to the UK government’s localism agenda in England, and specifically towards Neighbourhood Planning (NP), is important given that NP is a prominent part of that policy agenda. It is also of interest as the ramifications emerge for planning practice in the formal introduction of statutory plans which are ostensibly led by communities (Parker et al, 2015; Gallent, 2013). There is a necessary task to provide critical commentary on the socio-economic impact of localist policy. The paper explores the issues arising from experience thus far and highlights the take-up of Neighbourhood Planning since 2011. This assessment shows how a vast majority of those active have been in parished areas and in less-deprived areas. This indicates that government needs to do more to ensure that NP is accessible and worthwhile for a wider range of communities.
Gavin Parker, Kat Salter and Hannah Hickman look at what experience to date tells us about how th... more 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 experience.
This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an... more This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support and include the most vulnerable in society is more acute than ever. However, forms of Advocacy Planning, the progressive concept championed for this purpose since the 1960s, is under threat from neoliberalisation. Rather than abandoning advocacy, the book asserts that only through sustained critical engagement will issues of exclusion be positively tackled and addressed. The authors propose neo-advocacy planning as the critical lens through which to effect positive change. This, they argue, will need to draw on a co-production model maintained through a well-resourced special purpose organisation set up to mobilise and resource planning intermediaries whose role it is to activate, support and educate those without the resources to secure such advocacy themselves.
Based in the Department of History, he is one of the leading historians of modern rural Britain, ... more Based in the Department of History, he is one of the leading historians of modern rural Britain, with an extensive record of publication on landscape, landownership, conflict over land use and planning. He is the Principal Investigator of the Strategic Priorities Fund/AHRC research network 'Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives: How can Narrative and Biographical Perspectives Improve Landscape Decision-making?' (January 2020-December 2021). Mr Joe Doak-until 2019 Associate Professor of Planning & Development at the University of Reading based in the Department of Real Estate and Planning. He has an active interest in land use history. Joe also has extensive research experience including leading an EPSRCfunded multidisciplinary project examining the restoration and redevelopment of brownfield land. He jointly authored, with Gavin Parker, the book Key Concepts in Planning (Sage, 2012). Professor Gavin Parker-Chair of Planning Studies at the University of Reading and based in the Department of Real Estate and Planning. Much of his rural-oriented research has focussed on rights, conflict and regulatory change and his PhD focused on land use conflict in rural England. He has extensive rural planning and research experience, including for Defra, Homes England and the Countryside Agency including the research that underpinned the Countryside and Rights of Way Act of 2000. He led two national research studies of neighbourhood planning in 2014 and 2019-20 for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). He is a Chartered Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences with around 100 publications, including five books.
This chapter discusses recent research that surveyed 120 groups involved at different stages of t... more This chapter discusses recent research that surveyed 120 groups involved at different stages of the neighbourhood planning process in England. Focusing on both the experiences of those involved in urban and rural areas, it provides a source from which to draw out some wider observations about the overall neighbourhood planning experience. In particular, the chapter gives insights into the evolution of neighbourhood planning groups in terms of their motivations and capacities to engage, their location and socioeconomic background, the issues that they are focusing on, and the barriers that they have been facing. In the light of debates on localism, it considers the extent to which neighbourhood planning is producing an uneven and unequal geography. The chapter also adds new dimensions to debates on capacity building and the over- and under-representation of certain interests in neighbourhood planning.
Conference paper exploring the role of the neighbourhood planning examiner and the challenges and... more Conference paper exploring the role of the neighbourhood planning examiner and the challenges and contradictions for examiners operating in a deliberative practice space but with constrained statutory role.
Exploration of how neighbourhoods and others have responded to the UK government’s localism agend... more Exploration of how neighbourhoods and others have responded to the UK government’s localism agenda in England, and specifically towards Neighbourhood Planning (NP), is important given that NP is a prominent part of that policy agenda. It is also of interest as the ramifications emerge for planning practice in the formal introduction of statutory plans which are ostensibly led by communities (Parker et al, 2015; Gallent, 2013). There is a necessary task to provide critical commentary on the socio-economic impact of localist policy. The paper explores the issues arising from experience thus far and highlights the take-up of Neighbourhood Planning since 2011. This assessment shows how a vast majority of those active have been in parished areas and in less-deprived areas. This indicates that government needs to do more to ensure that NP is accessible and worthwhile for a wider range of communities.
Gavin Parker, Kat Salter and Hannah Hickman look at what experience to date tells us about how th... more 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 experience.
This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an... more This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support and include the most vulnerable in society is more acute than ever. However, forms of Advocacy Planning, the progressive concept championed for this purpose since the 1960s, is under threat from neoliberalisation. Rather than abandoning advocacy, the book asserts that only through sustained critical engagement will issues of exclusion be positively tackled and addressed. The authors propose neo-advocacy planning as the critical lens through which to effect positive change. This, they argue, will need to draw on a co-production model maintained through a well-resourced special purpose organisation set up to mobilise and resource planning intermediaries whose role it is to activate, support and educate those without the resources to secure such advocacy themselves.
Based in the Department of History, he is one of the leading historians of modern rural Britain, ... more Based in the Department of History, he is one of the leading historians of modern rural Britain, with an extensive record of publication on landscape, landownership, conflict over land use and planning. He is the Principal Investigator of the Strategic Priorities Fund/AHRC research network 'Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives: How can Narrative and Biographical Perspectives Improve Landscape Decision-making?' (January 2020-December 2021). Mr Joe Doak-until 2019 Associate Professor of Planning & Development at the University of Reading based in the Department of Real Estate and Planning. He has an active interest in land use history. Joe also has extensive research experience including leading an EPSRCfunded multidisciplinary project examining the restoration and redevelopment of brownfield land. He jointly authored, with Gavin Parker, the book Key Concepts in Planning (Sage, 2012). Professor Gavin Parker-Chair of Planning Studies at the University of Reading and based in the Department of Real Estate and Planning. Much of his rural-oriented research has focussed on rights, conflict and regulatory change and his PhD focused on land use conflict in rural England. He has extensive rural planning and research experience, including for Defra, Homes England and the Countryside Agency including the research that underpinned the Countryside and Rights of Way Act of 2000. He led two national research studies of neighbourhood planning in 2014 and 2019-20 for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). He is a Chartered Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences with around 100 publications, including five books.
This chapter discusses recent research that surveyed 120 groups involved at different stages of t... more This chapter discusses recent research that surveyed 120 groups involved at different stages of the neighbourhood planning process in England. Focusing on both the experiences of those involved in urban and rural areas, it provides a source from which to draw out some wider observations about the overall neighbourhood planning experience. In particular, the chapter gives insights into the evolution of neighbourhood planning groups in terms of their motivations and capacities to engage, their location and socioeconomic background, the issues that they are focusing on, and the barriers that they have been facing. In the light of debates on localism, it considers the extent to which neighbourhood planning is producing an uneven and unequal geography. The chapter also adds new dimensions to debates on capacity building and the over- and under-representation of certain interests in neighbourhood planning.
Conference paper exploring the role of the neighbourhood planning examiner and the challenges and... more Conference paper exploring the role of the neighbourhood planning examiner and the challenges and contradictions for examiners operating in a deliberative practice space but with constrained statutory role.
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