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This paper evaluates the way decisions on the allocation of land for housing are made in England drawing on the literature charting the changing style of governance and institutional structure in Britain. In this respect it attempts to link into two of the subthemes of the Umea and Bari conferences, notably the theory-practice interplay using a case study approach. The paper takes the practice issue of projected household growth and the spatial implications of absorbing that growth and evaluates the debates that take place within the formal arenas of the British land use planning system. Particular attention is paid to how the political setting is structured through the imposition of values, and how the policy agenda is foreclosed through the detailed specification of criteria and procedures. The North East of England (Figure 1) is used as the study area to identify the effect on local government agency of this regulatory style. Research for this paper is drawn from work commissioned by the Town and Country Planning Association (Hull, 1996a) and consultancy work the author has been engaged in for the Housebuilders Federation in the review of regional planning guidance for the North East.
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Hull, A.D. (1998). Regulation Through the Development Plan. In: Lichfield, N., Barbanente, A., Borri, D., Khakee, A., Prat, A. (eds) Evaluation in Planning. The GeoJournal Library, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1495-2_7
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