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Putting Localism in Place: Conservative Images of the Good Community and the Contradictions of Planning Reform in England

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  • Malcolm Tait
  • Andy Inch

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Over the past 5 years, the UK Coalition and subsequent Conservative governments have sought to develop an agenda of localism. Recent research has evaluated how this has played out in practice. This article takes a different approach, interpreting how the language of community and place in English politics has been mobilized in reforms of the country’s planning system. We do this by tracing how conservative traditions of political thought and imagery of place were used to advance localism. This reveals a range of contradictions within the English localism agenda and highlights the wider political challenges raised by attempts to mobilize the affective and morally charged language of the local.

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  • Malcolm Tait & Andy Inch, 2016. "Putting Localism in Place: Conservative Images of the Good Community and the Contradictions of Planning Reform in England," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(2), pages 174-194, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:31:y:2016:i:2:p:174-194
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2015.1104219
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    1. Hickman, Hannah & While, Aidan, 2023. "Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).

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