ENABLING PARTICIPATORY PLANNING : planning aid and advocacy in neo-liberal times

This Book Examines The Challenges In Delivering A Participatory Planning Agenda In The Face Of An Increasingly Neoliberalised Planning System And Charts The Experience Of Planning Aid England. In An Age Of Austerity, Government Spending Cuts, Privatisation And Rising Inequalities, The Need To Support And Include The Most Vulnerable In Society Is More Acute Than Ever. However, Forms Of Advocacy Planning, The Progressive Concept Championed For This Purpose Since The 1960s, Is Under Threat From Neoliberalisation. Rather Than Abandoning Advocacy, The Book Asserts That Only Through Sustained Critical Engagement Will Issues Of Exclusion Be Positively Tackled And Addressed. The Authors Propose Neo-advocacy Planning As The Critical Lens Through Which To Effect Positive Change. This, They Argue, Will Need To Draw On A Co-production Model Maintained Through A Well-resourced Special Purpose Organisation Set Up To Mobilise And Resource Planning Intermediaries Whose Role It Is To Activate, Support And Educate Those Without The Resources To Secure Such Advocacy Themselves. -- Introduction: Engaging In Planning -- Neoliberal Times And Participation In Planning -- Advocacy Planning: Then And Now -- Advocacy And Planning Aid In England -- Neo-advocacy And Contemporary Issues In Progressive Planning -- Conclusion: Embedding Neo-advocacy In Planning Systems. Gavin Parker, Emma Street. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 109-127) And Index. ENABLING PARTICIPATORY PLANNING Contents Figures, tables and boxes Figures Tables Boxes About the authors Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: engaging in planning Post-Second World War planning 2. Neoliberal times and participation in planning Participation in planning and drivers of urban change in review Participation in theory What is the neoliberal and how does it have an impact on UK planning? Neighbourhood planning as a neoliberal response to planning conflict Co-production as participation in planning 3. Advocacy planning: then and now Advocacy planning types Urging advocacy Difficulties in practice 4. Advocacy and Planning Aid in England Creating an advocacy planning in England (1971–86) Planning Aid England and New Labour Localism and neighbourhood planning: advocacy denied? Planning Aid England 2010–16 Where does this leave Planning Aid? 5. Neo-advocacy and contemporary issues in progressive planning Neo-advocacy: what does it look and feel like? Who are the neo-advocates? Education and participation Co-production on what terms? 6. Conclusion: embedding neo-advocacy in planning systems What is to be done? Institutionalising neo-advocacy The ‘rules of the game’: how to ensure accountability? References Index "This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support and include the most vulnerable in society is more acute than ever. However, forms of Advocacy Planning, the progressive concept championed for this purpose since the 1960s, is under threat from neoliberalisation. Rather than abandoning advocacy, the book asserts that only through sustained critical engagement will issues of exclusion be positively tackled and addressed. The authors propose neo-advocacy planning as the critical lens through which to effect positive change. This, they argue, will need to draw on a co-production model maintained through a well-resourced special purpose organisation set up to mobilise and resource planning intermediaries whose role it is to activate, support and educate those without the resources to secure such advocacy themselves."-- Provided by publisher

This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support and include the most vulnerable in society is more acute than ever. However, forms of Advocacy Planning, the progressive concept championed for this purpose since the 1960s, is under threat from neoliberalisation. Rather than abandoning advocacy, the book asserts that only through sustained critical engagement will issues of exclusion be positively tackled and addressed. The authors propose neo-advocacy planning as the critical lens through which to effect positive change. This, they argue, will need to draw on a co-production model maintained through a well-resourced special purpose organisation set up to mobilise and resource planning intermediaries whose role it is to activate, support and educate those without the resources to secure such advocacy themselves.

Charting the experience of Planning Aid England (PAE) past and present, this book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system