Enhancing our understanding of the longer-term best methodologies for evaluating the impact of different interventions, and the recent experiences of reform outside of England both across the UK and internationally, to inform our own reforms.
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
This study proposes the first major investigation in the UK into the increasing involvement of private companies in carrying out professional spatial planning work formerly conducted by local government. In the postwa...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield
The project focuses on the impacts of planning reform outside of the UK and has the necessary expertise to answer the question fully.
Land use planning is one of the most controversial aspects of local life, generating more political heat than almost any other local policy issue. The new UK Government intends to publish White Papers on planning and dev...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Lancaster University
The project examines the claims and impact of neighbourhood planning, which is a form of planning reform, but does not directly address planning reform outside of the UK.
Across Western Europe the activity of urban regeneration is now around 40 years old. From the vantage point of the present this history is best understood as one of experimentation and re-experimentation with a range of ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Liverpool
The project investigates self-organised governance of urban policy, but does not specifically address planning reform outside of the UK.