Two Planning for infrastructure and housing – is sustainable development a dream?
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Roberta Blackman-Woods
Abstract
This chapter offers some reflections and personal insights into the area of planning, housing and regeneration or built environment. The chapter stresses the significance of this field for social policy because of its ability to shape and reshape communities, add to the heritage and literally create the shape of the world. Planning is also significant in social policy as it has a great role in reducing social injustice, in improving the quality of life in neighbourhoods and in tacking issues concerning climate change. In addition to highlighting the importance of this field for social policy, the chapter reviews the various Labour governments’ record since 1997, placing the considerable body of legislation since then into a meaningful context, before providing a thoroughgoing description and analysis of the range of policy measures introduced during the past year. These include the 2007 Planning Bill, built out of the influential Barker and Eddington reports of 2006. In conclusion, it is suggested that how the legislation is implemented is key, since there is still a need for local and national policy making in this area to become better aligned.
Abstract
This chapter offers some reflections and personal insights into the area of planning, housing and regeneration or built environment. The chapter stresses the significance of this field for social policy because of its ability to shape and reshape communities, add to the heritage and literally create the shape of the world. Planning is also significant in social policy as it has a great role in reducing social injustice, in improving the quality of life in neighbourhoods and in tacking issues concerning climate change. In addition to highlighting the importance of this field for social policy, the chapter reviews the various Labour governments’ record since 1997, placing the considerable body of legislation since then into a meaningful context, before providing a thoroughgoing description and analysis of the range of policy measures introduced during the past year. These include the 2007 Planning Bill, built out of the influential Barker and Eddington reports of 2006. In conclusion, it is suggested that how the legislation is implemented is key, since there is still a need for local and national policy making in this area to become better aligned.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and boxes v
- List of abbreviations vi
- Notes on contributors viii
- Introduction 1
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Current developments
- A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training 11
- Planning for infrastructure and housing – is sustainable development a dream? 35
- Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK 51
- Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006–07 69
- Policy for older people in Wales 93
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Current debates
- Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work–life balance in a low-income neighbourhood 113
- The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences 133
- The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem? 151
- Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate 173
- Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany: curtailed, fragmented, streamlined, but still on the agenda 191
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Engendering policy and politics
- Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model? 215
- A review of engendering policy in the EU 241
- Forming Australian families: gender ideologies and policy settings 263
- Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood 279
- Index 297
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of tables and boxes v
- List of abbreviations vi
- Notes on contributors viii
- Introduction 1
-
Current developments
- A year of transition in post-compulsory education and training 11
- Planning for infrastructure and housing – is sustainable development a dream? 35
- Towards a new pension settlement? Recent pension reform in the UK 51
- Climate change and climate change policy in the UK 2006–07 69
- Policy for older people in Wales 93
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Current debates
- Flexibility or flexploitation? Problems with work–life balance in a low-income neighbourhood 113
- The role of confidence and identity in civic participation: exploring ethnic group differences 133
- The problem of riches: is philanthropy a solution or part of the problem? 151
- Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate 173
- Social citizenship in post-liberal Britain and post-corporatist Germany: curtailed, fragmented, streamlined, but still on the agenda 191
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Engendering policy and politics
- Gender and New Labour: after the male breadwinner model? 215
- A review of engendering policy in the EU 241
- Forming Australian families: gender ideologies and policy settings 263
- Working fathers as providers and carers: towards a new conceptualisation of fatherhood 279
- Index 297
