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SUMMARY:From Parish to Neighbourhood Planning in England - Professor Nick 
 Gallent\, Professor of Housing and Planning and Head of the Bartlett Schoo
 l of Planning at UCL
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DTEND:20121017T131500Z
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CONTACT:Villian Lo
DESCRIPTION:Planning at a neighbourhood level is not new.  Rather\, there 
 has been a great deal of interest and activity in community-based planning
  in England for several decades\, which has recently been manifest in the 
 production of parish plans in rural areas and in attempts to connect these
  to the official strategies of local government.  Making the connection be
 tween parish and local plans has not been easy\, and nor has it been easy 
 to develop the critical relationships - lay and professional - needed to e
 nsure that parish and local plans express any level of agreement around la
 nd use decisions.  Parish plans have often been used as lobbying tools\, o
 r as expressions of opposition to official policy outcomes.  But under the
  new planning regime\, 'neighbourhood plans' are to become an important bu
 ilding block of land use planning.  Whether they can align\, in any way\, 
 with local plans will depend on how much time and effort is expended on br
 inging together the 'part time planners' of village England with local gov
 ernment officials\, with the aim of establishing a new level of engagement
  and trust in the planning system.  In this seminar\, I will outline some 
 of the results of a research project that looked at parish planning and le
 ssons for the new neighbourhood planning process.
LOCATION:First-floor Classroom\, Department of Architecture
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