The object is to change the heart and soul’
Financial incentives, planning and opposition to new housebuilding in England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13111925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andy Inch (0000-0002-3349-687X, University of Sheffield, corresponding author), Richard Dunning (0000-0003-0397-679X, University of Liverpool), Aidan While (0000-0002-3468-9489, University of Sheffield), Hannah Hickman (0000-0002-1366-2279, University of the West of England), Sarah Payne (0000-0001-5289-5844, University of Sheffield) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 713-732 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning C Politics and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2399-6544 • E-ISSN: 2399-6552 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2399654420902149 |
| OpenAlex | W3000219226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 27 |
In 2014 the UK government announced plans to reduce opposition to housing development by making a direct payment to households in England. 1 This was part of a wider experiment with behavioural economics and financial inducements in planning policy. In this paper, we explore this proposal, named ‘Development Benefits’, arguing it offers important insights into how the governing rationality of neoliberalism attempts to govern both planning and opposition to development by replacing political debate with a depoliticised economic rationality. Drawing on householder and key player responses to the Development Benefits proposal we highlight significant levels of principled objection to the replacement of traditional forms of planning reason with financial logics. The paper therefore contributes to understandings of planning as a site of ongoing resistance to neoliberal rationalities. We conclude by questioning whether Development Benefits represent a particular strand of ‘late neoliberal’ governmentality, exploring the potential for an alternative planning rationality to contest the narrow marketisation of planning ideas and practices
CONTEST · Economics · Governmentality · Incentive · Market economy · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Rationality · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance
Planning principles and particular places
Populism, Planning, and the Politics of Discontent
Evidence-lite zone
Localism and the will to housing
Is Zoning the Solution to the UK Housing Crisis
Planning deregulation and commodification
New tenure, new challenges
Localism, governmentality and failing technologies
Deregulation and space
The use of public land for house building in England
Emerging problematics of deregulating the urban
Planning, Governance and Spatial Strategy in Britain
Public Things
Is Planning “Under Attack”? Chronicling the Deregulation of Urban and Environmental Planning in England
Using the Language of Nimby
Planners' Alchemy Transforming Nimby to Yimby
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory
Understanding the Nimby and Lulu Phenomena
The Evolution and Trajectories of English Spatial Governance
Explaining (with) Neoliberalism
Homo Economicus in a Big Society
The Sudden Rediscovery of Housing Supply as a Key Policy Challenge
Putting discourse in its place
Governing the ungovernable
The politics of behaviour change
Governmentality
After Neoliberalization
Geographies and politics of localism
The Containment of Urban England
The Exercise of Power to Limit the Development of New Housing in the English Countryside
Undoing the Demos
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |