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‘The planners’ dream goes wrong?’ Questioning citizen-centred planning

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  • Alex Lord
  • Michael Mair
  • John Sturzaker
  • Paul Jones

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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.

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  • Alex Lord & Michael Mair & John Sturzaker & Paul Jones, 2017. "‘The planners’ dream goes wrong?’ Questioning citizen-centred planning," Local Government Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(3), pages 344-363, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:flgsxx:v:43:y:2017:i:3:p:344-363
    DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2017.1288618
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