Environmental concerns and economic imperatives in strategic plan making

Article Abstract:

Recent research has looked in detail at the process of strategic spatial planning, giving particular attention to the ways in which the process is influenced by the more general socio-economic and environmental context in an urban area. Specifically, it looked at the drawing up of a new structure plan for the county of Lancashire. It was found that the plan regards environmental issues in a way which is still dominated by the marketised utilitarian approach and by heritage conservation. The plan's spatial policies clearly reflect the most influential economic factors.

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Planning through debate

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Planning can be carried out in a democratic way in advanced societies, and is relevant to such societies, despite objections. These come from two camps: the revival of economic evaluation with regard to public policy, and the critique of scientific rationalism which is inherent in the post-modernist perspective. Habermas' idea of inter-subjective reasoning is helpful in finding ways for different groups within society to communicate and cooperate while retaining their identity, and this has implications for the way environmental planning can be tackled today.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Public participation, Environmental policy, Planning

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Collaborative planning in a stakeholder society

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Spatial planning asserts the ideal of improving quality of life by promoting, managing and regulating place making, but spatial planning practices have often been out of place in governance environments and policy cultures, with public policy framed as if place and space are irrelevant. Emerging forms of the British planning system are explored in the context of conflict management of land use and development and promoting qualities of places. New ways of working are required and changes in the formal arrangements of the planning system are needed.

United Kingdom, Personal space

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