TY - JOUR
T1 - Rescaling of planning and its interface with economic development
AU - Pugalis, Lee
AU - Townsend, Alan
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Following the installation of a UK Coalition Government in 2010, ways of governing the spatial organisation of development have undergone far-reaching change in England. Within a context of austerity following the abolition of regional policy machinery, and an onerous national target framework, localities are entering a new phase of incentivised development. Consequently, Local Planning Authorities are having to transfer part of their focus from government’s ‘top-down’ requirements, as they come to embrace more adequately ‘bottom-up’ neighbourhood scale plans. Analysing the path of change, especially at the interface between planning and economic development, the paper draws attention to the dilemmas arising from these crucial scale shifts, and explores the potential of sub-national governance entities – Local Enterprise Partnerships – to help resolve the strategic co-ordination of planning.
AB - Following the installation of a UK Coalition Government in 2010, ways of governing the spatial organisation of development have undergone far-reaching change in England. Within a context of austerity following the abolition of regional policy machinery, and an onerous national target framework, localities are entering a new phase of incentivised development. Consequently, Local Planning Authorities are having to transfer part of their focus from government’s ‘top-down’ requirements, as they come to embrace more adequately ‘bottom-up’ neighbourhood scale plans. Analysing the path of change, especially at the interface between planning and economic development, the paper draws attention to the dilemmas arising from these crucial scale shifts, and explores the potential of sub-national governance entities – Local Enterprise Partnerships – to help resolve the strategic co-ordination of planning.
KW - local enterprise partnerships
KW - regional development agencies
KW - sub-national development
KW - governance
KW - economic development
KW - localism
KW - spatial planning
KW - regeneration
U2 - 10.1080/02697459.2012.699236
DO - 10.1080/02697459.2012.699236
M3 - Article
VL - 28
SP - 104
EP - 121
JO - Planning Practice and Research
JF - Planning Practice and Research
SN - 0269-7459
IS - 1
ER -