A new way of planning across local boundaries has followed on the revocation of Regional Spatial Strategies in England after the Coalition Localism Act 2011: local plan-making authorities are now expected to undertake joint work on sub-regional planning issues by putting in place processes of “strategic planning”. At the end of this plan preparation process, the “Duty to Cooperate” is conceived as a legal requirement that the Planning Inspectorate will look at. Councils are required to give sufficient evidence to demonstrate that the Duty to Cooperate has been undertaken appropriately. Whereas Local Planning Authorities throughout England are now engaged in the application of the Duty to Cooperate in the process of preparing local plans, several doubt emerge on its efficacy to meet the latent need for some forms of strategic planning. New issues to tackle arise, concerning the defining and redefining of sub-regional boundaries, the relationship among statutory and strategic planning, the need for rebuilding governance structures and for new mediation skills for planning practitioners. In this paper, strategic planning in England will be investigated using conceptual frameworks from metagovernance to analise Central government’s attempts for promoting strategic planning, and – in general terms – from interactive governance to understand which relationship among statutory and strategic planning agendas emerge, and how local planning authorities deal with previous and in place experiences of cooperation for sub-regional development (Local Enterprise Partnerships, City Deals, Enterprise Zones, City-Region, etc.) for undertaking spatial planning processes under the Duty to Cooperate. Within this framework, through the analysis of case study experiences, the paper discusses the forms of governance in place, the different boundaries they assume, the difficulties they encounter, as well as the institutional planning instruments and outcomes they put in place. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the way strategic planning works in the Era of England’s Localism and to consider whether the Duty to Cooperate offers a viable mechanism for planning across local boundaries.

What if cooperation turns into obligation? Strategic planning in England in the era of localism / Lingua,. - ELETTRONICO. - (2016), pp. 60-61. (Intervento presentato al convegno New pressures on cities and regions - RSA winter conference 2016 tenutosi a London nel 24-25 November 2016).

What if cooperation turns into obligation? Strategic planning in England in the era of localism

Lingua
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2016

Abstract

A new way of planning across local boundaries has followed on the revocation of Regional Spatial Strategies in England after the Coalition Localism Act 2011: local plan-making authorities are now expected to undertake joint work on sub-regional planning issues by putting in place processes of “strategic planning”. At the end of this plan preparation process, the “Duty to Cooperate” is conceived as a legal requirement that the Planning Inspectorate will look at. Councils are required to give sufficient evidence to demonstrate that the Duty to Cooperate has been undertaken appropriately. Whereas Local Planning Authorities throughout England are now engaged in the application of the Duty to Cooperate in the process of preparing local plans, several doubt emerge on its efficacy to meet the latent need for some forms of strategic planning. New issues to tackle arise, concerning the defining and redefining of sub-regional boundaries, the relationship among statutory and strategic planning, the need for rebuilding governance structures and for new mediation skills for planning practitioners. In this paper, strategic planning in England will be investigated using conceptual frameworks from metagovernance to analise Central government’s attempts for promoting strategic planning, and – in general terms – from interactive governance to understand which relationship among statutory and strategic planning agendas emerge, and how local planning authorities deal with previous and in place experiences of cooperation for sub-regional development (Local Enterprise Partnerships, City Deals, Enterprise Zones, City-Region, etc.) for undertaking spatial planning processes under the Duty to Cooperate. Within this framework, through the analysis of case study experiences, the paper discusses the forms of governance in place, the different boundaries they assume, the difficulties they encounter, as well as the institutional planning instruments and outcomes they put in place. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the way strategic planning works in the Era of England’s Localism and to consider whether the Duty to Cooperate offers a viable mechanism for planning across local boundaries.
2016
New pressures on cities and regions
New pressures on cities and regions - RSA winter conference 2016
London
Lingua,
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