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Centre for Comparative Housing Research at De Montfort University
ESRC Seminar Series One:
Understanding Conflict in Planning
Dr Tim Brown
[email protected]
www.dmu.ac.uk/cchr
@DMUCCHR
29 November 2012
Personal Background
• Qualified Town Planner from the Early
1970s
• Quantitative Planning Revolution
• Planning Officer for Seven Years
• Planning / Real Estate / Housing
Academic
• Occasional Venture into the Real World
from the Ivory Tower of DMU
Planning System: Little
Change Over 40 Years!
• Scientific Rational Planning
– Gypsy & Traveller Accommodation
Assessments
– Local Development Framework
• Development Control as a Poor
Relation
– Decisions based on the ‘Public Interest’
– Professional Expertise
Reality of Planning
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Politics rather than Scientific Rationality
Distrust of the Professional Planner
Whose ‘Public Interest’!
Power and Influence
Planning and Vulnerable
Groups
• Planning Application
• Consultation
• Planning Committee: Officer
Recommendation Rejected
• ‘Refusal’ with Reasons
• Appeal
• Inquiry
• Decision by Inspector
Conflict and Planning:
Frameworks
• Acknowledge
– Winners & Losers through Planning System
– Importance of Power and Expertise
• Rebalancing ‘Power’: Planning Aid Solution
• Implementation Theory: Bargaining and
Negotiation
• Restorative Practice