TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘The planners’ dream goes wrong?’ Questioning citizen-centred planning
AU - Lord, Alex
AU - Mair, Michael
AU - Sturzaker, John
AU - Jones, Paul
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the University of Liverpool [Changing Cultures pump priming award].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/5/4
Y1 - 2017/5/4
N2 - The reform of urban and environmental planning in England since the election of the Coalition government in 2010 has resulted in the emergence of Neighbourhood Planning: a situation in which citizens can autonomously assemble, define the spatial extent of their neighbourhood and author a plan for it. In this paper, we argue that this radical policy is part of a wider agenda to de-professionalise planning as a statutory function and has its roots in an odd assemblage of classical right-wing political thinking and the prescriptions of post-positivist planning theory. This uneasy conceptual relationship reveals a wider inconsistency between the policy in rhetorical form and its practical implementation. Drawing on primary research from England’s North-West and a thorough review of literature, we hope to show that the dream of citizen-centred planning masks deep tensions within the activity of urban and environmental management.
AB - The reform of urban and environmental planning in England since the election of the Coalition government in 2010 has resulted in the emergence of Neighbourhood Planning: a situation in which citizens can autonomously assemble, define the spatial extent of their neighbourhood and author a plan for it. In this paper, we argue that this radical policy is part of a wider agenda to de-professionalise planning as a statutory function and has its roots in an odd assemblage of classical right-wing political thinking and the prescriptions of post-positivist planning theory. This uneasy conceptual relationship reveals a wider inconsistency between the policy in rhetorical form and its practical implementation. Drawing on primary research from England’s North-West and a thorough review of literature, we hope to show that the dream of citizen-centred planning masks deep tensions within the activity of urban and environmental management.
KW - citizen participation
KW - Localism
KW - Neighbourhood Planning
KW - post-political theory
KW - post-positivist planning theory
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U2 - 10.1080/03003930.2017.1288618
DO - 10.1080/03003930.2017.1288618
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85013177945
SN - 0300-3930
VL - 43
SP - 344
EP - 363
JO - Local Government Studies
JF - Local Government Studies
IS - 3
ER -