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Spatial Planning, Devolution, and New Planning Spaces

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  • Phil Allmendinger

    (Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9EP, England)

  • Graham Haughton

    (Department of Geography, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, England)

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In this paper we put forward the case for viewing ‘spatial planning’ as a political resource, one which has been largely supportive of the rollout neoliberal approach of New Labour. Drawing on work on postpolitics, we argue that ironically the progressive credentials of spatial planning in terms of consensus building, policy integration, and the search for ‘win – win – win’ solutions may have helped script out oppositional voices. We then outline how the combination of changes to planning systems, devolution, and local government reform has not generated a ‘double dividend’ of greater planning powers devolving from new territorial administrations to local planning authorities. Instead a more complex process of creating new planning spaces has emerged after devolution. Five types of new planning spaces and spatial practices are identified, including new soft space forms of governance.

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  • Phil Allmendinger & Graham Haughton, 2010. "Spatial Planning, Devolution, and New Planning Spaces," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 28(5), pages 803-818, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:28:y:2010:i:5:p:803-818
    DOI: 10.1068/c09163
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