Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2159327
R. Cowell, Ananya Mukherjee
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the frequent claim that planning is a ‘barrier’ to developing digital networks (mobile telephony and broadband), causing ‘delay’ and deficits in rural network coverage. It draws on planning applications data and expert interviews gathered in Wales. It found only a relatively small proportion of infrastructure applications failing to gain consent but that developers did perceive planning uncertainty and constraints to adversely affect network roll out. However, economics rather than planning has been the central factor limiting rural network coverage. More fundamentally, framing planning as a ’barrier’ to infrastructure delivery ignores how planning mediates between alternative technological pathways.
{"title":"Is planning a barrier to the development of digital network infrastructure? Insights from rural Wales","authors":"R. Cowell, Ananya Mukherjee","doi":"10.1080/02697459.2022.2159327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2159327","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the frequent claim that planning is a ‘barrier’ to developing digital networks (mobile telephony and broadband), causing ‘delay’ and deficits in rural network coverage. It draws on planning applications data and expert interviews gathered in Wales. It found only a relatively small proportion of infrastructure applications failing to gain consent but that developers did perceive planning uncertainty and constraints to adversely affect network roll out. However, economics rather than planning has been the central factor limiting rural network coverage. More fundamentally, framing planning as a ’barrier’ to infrastructure delivery ignores how planning mediates between alternative technological pathways.","PeriodicalId":54201,"journal":{"name":"Planning Practice and Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"292 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45271544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT Swedish municipalities are obliged to formulate housing provision policies in housing programs, as part of municipal strategic planning. This article explores how municipalities interpret this responsibility. We analyze housing provision programs by drawing from prospective responsibility and policy analysis. Our analysis shows three different prospective responsibilities in the municipality’s production of housing provision responsibility. The results show that municipalities take actions by different means, leading to ambiguities and inequalities in housing provision planning.
{"title":"Municipal responsibilities in strategic housing provision planning: to accommodate, support and facilitate","authors":"Jimmie Andersén, Lina Berglund-Snodgrass, Ebba Högström","doi":"10.1080/02697459.2022.2147643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2147643","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Swedish municipalities are obliged to formulate housing provision policies in housing programs, as part of municipal strategic planning. This article explores how municipalities interpret this responsibility. We analyze housing provision programs by drawing from prospective responsibility and policy analysis. Our analysis shows three different prospective responsibilities in the municipality’s production of housing provision responsibility. The results show that municipalities take actions by different means, leading to ambiguities and inequalities in housing provision planning.","PeriodicalId":54201,"journal":{"name":"Planning Practice and Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"236 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45194207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-20DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2145032
Kat Salter, G. Parker, Matthew Wargent
ABSTRACT The planning system in England is regarded as a key mechanism for the delivery of housing but is also seen by some as a brake on its supply. In this context, the introduction of neighbourhood planning in 2011 has been promoted as a mechanism to reduce opposition to new housing and aid housing growth. This paper focuses on how this policy tool has been implemented with a view to mobilising communities to assist in the allocation of housing sites. The paper draws on empirical data to illustrate the role, motivations, and response to neighbourhood planning and its impact on the delivery of housing.
{"title":"Localism and the will to housing: neighbourhood development plans and their role in local housing site delivery in England","authors":"Kat Salter, G. Parker, Matthew Wargent","doi":"10.1080/02697459.2022.2145032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2145032","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The planning system in England is regarded as a key mechanism for the delivery of housing but is also seen by some as a brake on its supply. In this context, the introduction of neighbourhood planning in 2011 has been promoted as a mechanism to reduce opposition to new housing and aid housing growth. This paper focuses on how this policy tool has been implemented with a view to mobilising communities to assist in the allocation of housing sites. The paper draws on empirical data to illustrate the role, motivations, and response to neighbourhood planning and its impact on the delivery of housing.","PeriodicalId":54201,"journal":{"name":"Planning Practice and Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"253 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48118911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2033481
Luise Noring
ABSTRACT Rooted in Pestoff’s third-sector organisation and undergirded by extensive empirical research, this paper considers how different public, private and civic actors interact and cogovern urban development projects. Public actors do not necessarily forego on value generation and capture despite public, private and civic partnerships frequently being analysed in terms of a rise in private values at the expense of public values. In fact, the article finds that differences in goals and priorities among public, private and civic actors may lead to differences in ownership and organisational roles without infringing on the public actors’ ability to generate and capture value.
{"title":"Ownership and organisation of urban development corporations in Danish towns and cities: a cooperative governance approach","authors":"Luise Noring","doi":"10.1080/02697459.2022.2033481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2033481","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rooted in Pestoff’s third-sector organisation and undergirded by extensive empirical research, this paper considers how different public, private and civic actors interact and cogovern urban development projects. Public actors do not necessarily forego on value generation and capture despite public, private and civic partnerships frequently being analysed in terms of a rise in private values at the expense of public values. In fact, the article finds that differences in goals and priorities among public, private and civic actors may lead to differences in ownership and organisational roles without infringing on the public actors’ ability to generate and capture value.","PeriodicalId":54201,"journal":{"name":"Planning Practice and Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"26 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49081764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2138148
Mark Smith
ABSTRACT Transportation and accessibility remain an important consideration in land use planning decision-making if modal shifts towards sustainable forms of transport are to be encouraged. Land value capture (LVC) mechanisms which gather developer contributions can provide new transport infrastructure which supports such a shift. Within England, this has traditionally been pursued through negotiated section 106 agreements, yet data suggest a significant decline in the value of these contributions for transport measures since 2010. This paper investigates the reduction to understand the reasons behind it and then considers the resulting implications for policy and LVC practices using a qualitative synthesis.
{"title":"Financing cleaner transportation: understanding changing trends in capturing developer contributions towards sustainable transport infrastructure","authors":"Mark Smith","doi":"10.1080/02697459.2022.2138148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2138148","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Transportation and accessibility remain an important consideration in land use planning decision-making if modal shifts towards sustainable forms of transport are to be encouraged. Land value capture (LVC) mechanisms which gather developer contributions can provide new transport infrastructure which supports such a shift. Within England, this has traditionally been pursued through negotiated section 106 agreements, yet data suggest a significant decline in the value of these contributions for transport measures since 2010. This paper investigates the reduction to understand the reasons behind it and then considers the resulting implications for policy and LVC practices using a qualitative synthesis.","PeriodicalId":54201,"journal":{"name":"Planning Practice and Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"218 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46139261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2133459
P. Feiertag, Johanna Schoppengerd
ABSTRACT How can formal planning deal with uncertainty and rapid change while maintaining high standards of procedural certainty? This paper, using Germany as an example, examines how municipalities handle this dilemma within their existing planning systems. Municipalities use different approaches, ranging from regular redrafting to comprehensive changes or regular amendments. Amendments and complementary informal plans are important components of flexibility in planning. We argue that the choice to make frequent amendments instead of redrafting the preparatory land-use plan does not necessarily lead to a loss of a city-wide, long-term perspective, provided amendments are prepared and justified using informal concepts.
{"title":"Flexibility in planning through frequent amendments. The practice of land use planning in Germany","authors":"P. Feiertag, Johanna Schoppengerd","doi":"10.1080/02697459.2022.2133459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2133459","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How can formal planning deal with uncertainty and rapid change while maintaining high standards of procedural certainty? This paper, using Germany as an example, examines how municipalities handle this dilemma within their existing planning systems. Municipalities use different approaches, ranging from regular redrafting to comprehensive changes or regular amendments. Amendments and complementary informal plans are important components of flexibility in planning. We argue that the choice to make frequent amendments instead of redrafting the preparatory land-use plan does not necessarily lead to a loss of a city-wide, long-term perspective, provided amendments are prepared and justified using informal concepts.","PeriodicalId":54201,"journal":{"name":"Planning Practice and Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"105 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46410952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2126164
S. Agrawal, Pradeep Sangapala, Elisabeth Hill, Jill Lang
ABSTRACT Human rights are inalienable rights we each possess by virtue of being human. In Canada, Ontario has been at the forefront of progressive human rights policies. Despite this, human rights complaints related to land use regulations have been on the rise. This study pursues three questions: Why are human rights challenges against land-use regulations increasing? What human rights challenges do Ontario municipalities face? and how do they respond? We conclude that despite significant advancements on the human rights front, Ontario municipalities struggle to understand fully their legal and moral obligations and have yet to catch up with new judicial interpretations.
{"title":"Human rights and the city: A case of Ontario, Canada","authors":"S. Agrawal, Pradeep Sangapala, Elisabeth Hill, Jill Lang","doi":"10.1080/02697459.2022.2126164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2126164","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Human rights are inalienable rights we each possess by virtue of being human. In Canada, Ontario has been at the forefront of progressive human rights policies. Despite this, human rights complaints related to land use regulations have been on the rise. This study pursues three questions: Why are human rights challenges against land-use regulations increasing? What human rights challenges do Ontario municipalities face? and how do they respond? We conclude that despite significant advancements on the human rights front, Ontario municipalities struggle to understand fully their legal and moral obligations and have yet to catch up with new judicial interpretations.","PeriodicalId":54201,"journal":{"name":"Planning Practice and Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"81 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49279813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2126165
L. McCain, Dave Guyadeen, Daniel Henstra
ABSTRACT Municipal official plans are useful for mainstreaming transportation objectives into local development planning and decision-making processes. Using a plan quality evaluation, this article assesses whether and how well transportation planning is integrated in municipal official plans of the 30 most populous municipalities in Canada. The results suggest this integration is weak, with a notable absence of rigorous data to inform transportation content in official plans, and poor monitoring and evaluation of transportation goals and policies. Furthermore, few plans provided details about how transportation-related policies would be implemented.
{"title":"Evaluating the integration of transportation planning in municipal official plans","authors":"L. McCain, Dave Guyadeen, Daniel Henstra","doi":"10.1080/02697459.2022.2126165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2126165","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Municipal official plans are useful for mainstreaming transportation objectives into local development planning and decision-making processes. Using a plan quality evaluation, this article assesses whether and how well transportation planning is integrated in municipal official plans of the 30 most populous municipalities in Canada. The results suggest this integration is weak, with a notable absence of rigorous data to inform transportation content in official plans, and poor monitoring and evaluation of transportation goals and policies. Furthermore, few plans provided details about how transportation-related policies would be implemented.","PeriodicalId":54201,"journal":{"name":"Planning Practice and Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"123 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48412987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-06DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2119511
M. Salomon, Jochen Schumacher
ABSTRACT The demand on space in the German EEZ is steadily increasing. In August 2021, Germany published a new spatial plan for its marine areas in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This article examines the extent to which the revision of the German maritime spatial plans meets the requirements of ecosystem-based management. Although the new spatial plan tries to find answers how to coordinate environmental protection issues with usage interests, not all conflicts were resolved. In particular, clarification is needed of how the expansion of renewable energies can be achieved in harmony with marine biodiversity protection.
{"title":"Maritime spatial planning: Germany as a forerunner in ecosystem-based management?","authors":"M. Salomon, Jochen Schumacher","doi":"10.1080/02697459.2022.2119511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2022.2119511","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The demand on space in the German EEZ is steadily increasing. In August 2021, Germany published a new spatial plan for its marine areas in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This article examines the extent to which the revision of the German maritime spatial plans meets the requirements of ecosystem-based management. Although the new spatial plan tries to find answers how to coordinate environmental protection issues with usage interests, not all conflicts were resolved. In particular, clarification is needed of how the expansion of renewable energies can be achieved in harmony with marine biodiversity protection.","PeriodicalId":54201,"journal":{"name":"Planning Practice and Research","volume":"37 1","pages":"739 - 750"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47066199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2022.2082756
B. Hermelin, M. Henriksson
This special issue aims to contribute to the research debate on how transport and mobility are intertwined with wider social systems and structures. Given the fundamental impact of transport on liveability in urban as well as rural settings, transport planning from a wider social approach is far from sufficiently acknowledged, even in transport research literature. Hence, we need more knowledge about how transport and mobility planning can be developed to support societal goals related to sustainable development. With respect to the various interpretations of, and approaches to, sustainable development, it is quite a demanding task to articulate how transport planning can contribute to sustainability. Above all, it demands an understanding of the relationship between transport and sustainable development for different policy issues, for different planning tasks and for different geographical contexts. We hope that the collection of papers in this special issue will contribute with new knowledge on such matters. In this introduction, we will briefly present the three papers included in the special issue and discuss some recent developments in the literature on transport for sustainable development. This special issue draws on the scholarly debate on integrated sustainable transport planning to frame the papers. An integrated sustainability approach to transport planning frames planning as a task that radiates out into different policies and for planning endeavours more broadly. Planning for sustainable transport relates to various planning tasks, such as the development of general planning strategies, directing investments into settlement development and physical infrastructure, implementing technical solutions (including digitalization measures), and intervening for mobility management and behavioural change strategies. Such broad array of policy and planning areas suggests that research on relations between transport, transport planning and social development also should spread across journals within social studies with different scopes and aims. Based on this point of departure, we hope that the articles in this issue can inspire readers with a key interest in planning to consider transport and mobility as important elements of planning. Transport planning involves planning bodies at different levels, from international communities such as the EU, through national and sub-national levels (e.g. regional and local authorities), as well as political influence. In addition, various actors in the private sector are engaged in transport planning. Structures of interdependencies evolve between bodies regarding their strategies for transport planning, and how such strategies encourage dialogue and collaboration across sectors and between actors. This demand for collaboration among actors becomes quite evident when transport planning is integrated within aims for sustainability. With the focus on climate impacts, the UN (2016) argues that different meas
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