The Contested Strategies of Local Governance

Community Strategies, Development Plans, and Local Government Modernisation

Bibliographic Data

ID4949869
AuthorsMark Tewdwr-Jones (0000-0002-8786-6434, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB, England, corresponding author), Janice Morphet (0000-0001-7056-6526, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB, England, corresponding author), Philip Allmendinger (University of Reading, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume38
Issue3
Pages533-551
Publication date2006-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a37308
OpenAlexW2055286241
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited27

The current round of local government modernisation in England, which commenced in 1997, has focused primarily on three main areas-new council constitutions, e-government, and performance. However, a fourth strand of initiatives relates to the power of well-being and the duty to prepare a community strategy, in partnership with a local strategic partnership. Academic commentators and planners, who have been focusing on the proposed UK planning reforms as contained within the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act (passed in 2004), have largely ignored the development of this strand. In this paper we explore these aspects of the local government modernisation agenda for planners and pull out some of the key issues for comparison in the ownership, role, and development of the new plans: community strategies and development plans. Opportunities and difficulties of ensuring that new development plans become the spatial expression of community strategies is assessed through an illustration of the relationship between the London Borough of Camden's community strategy and its unitary development plan. Following a review of the content of both documents, wider assessments are drawn out and we conclude by debating the implications of and challenges for a future reformed planning system at the local level

Borough · Business · Community development · Corporate governance · Development plan · Duty · Economic growth · Economics · General partnership · Local community · Local government · Management · Modernization theory · Political science · Strategic planning · Unitary state · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Urban Planning and Governance · Marketing

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