TY - JOUR
T1 - Profit or public service? Tensions and alignment in private planning practice
AU - Sturzaker, John
AU - Hickman, Hannah
PY - 2023/2/23
Y1 - 2023/2/23
N2 - 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 practice. Existing writing on private planning practice is somewhat circumspect, with the private sector being associated largely with a profit-driven approach. Drawing on interviews with private sector planners, this paper argues that this fails to reflect the lived reality of private sector planners, and in so doing sets out an alternative and more nuanced characterisation of private practice.
AB - 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 practice. Existing writing on private planning practice is somewhat circumspect, with the private sector being associated largely with a profit-driven approach. Drawing on interviews with private sector planners, this paper argues that this fails to reflect the lived reality of private sector planners, and in so doing sets out an alternative and more nuanced characterisation of private practice.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2023.2182027
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2023.2182027
M3 - Article
JO - Planning Practice and Research
JF - Planning Practice and Research
SN - 0269-7459
ER -