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The Delusion of Strategic Spatial Planning: What's Left After the Labour Government's English Regional Experiment?

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  • Mark Baker
  • Cecilia Wong

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In the UK, the Labour government (1997-2010) introduced various experiments to uplift English regional and sub-regional spatial strategy to a more prominent position in sub-national governance but much of this has been subsequently guillotined by the incoming Coalition government in May 2010. This paper assesses the prospect for the survival of strategic spatial thinking under the Coalition government's ethos of 'localism'. It first considers some of the broad conceptual issues relating to strategic spatial planning, identifying three key conundrums around flexibility of scaling, institutional structures and capacity, and core values and forms of knowledge. It then provides one of the first comprehensive accounts of what was achieved during the outgoing Labour administration, and what ultimately went wrong with the English regional planning project. Finally, an initial assessment is made of the future prospects for strategic planning in England to survive in new spatial contexts, despite the hostile conditions associated with the Coalition government.

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  • Mark Baker & Cecilia Wong, 2013. "The Delusion of Strategic Spatial Planning: What's Left After the Labour Government's English Regional Experiment?," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(1), pages 83-103, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:28:y:2013:i:1:p:83-103
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2012.694314
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    1. Anna Growe & Mark Baker & Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat, 2020. "The Legitimation of Planning Processes as a Challenge to Metropolitan Governance," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-24, June.
    2. Victoria Habermehl & Beth Perry, 2021. "The Risk Of Austerity Co‐Production In City‐Regional Governance In England," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(3), pages 555-571, May.
    3. Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat & Mark Baker, 2016. "Building consensus for network power? Some reflections on strategic spatial planning in the North West region of England," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 34(5), pages 900-926, August.
    4. Mohammed Adil Sait & Uchendu Eugene Chigbu & Iqbal Hamiduddin & Walter Timo De Vries, 2018. "Renewable Energy as an Underutilised Resource in Cities: Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ and Lessons for Post-Brexit Cities in the United Kingdom," Resources, MDPI, vol. 8(1), pages 1-27, December.
    5. Mee Kam Ng & Caglar Koksal & Cecilia Wong & Yuanzhou Tang, 2022. "Smart and Sustainable Development from a Spatial Planning Perspective: The Case of Shenzhen and Greater Manchester," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-28, March.
    6. Ian Gordon & Tony Champion, 2021. "Towards a sustainable, negotiated mode of strategic regional planning: a political economy perspective," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(1), pages 115-126, January.

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