{"id":11599,"date":"2015-12-02T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:29:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T17:29:17","slug":"rtpi-study-on-european-planning-and-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11599","title":{"rendered":"RTPI study on European planning and housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>A new study has been released by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) that looks at lessons from Europe on how to promote positive developments to assist in addressing housing needs, focussing on addressing \u2018Nimby\u2019-ism through up-front investment, and shows how \u2018<\/u><u>markets for land and property, when left to operate without intervention, are inherently incapable of delivering either the quantity or quality of places needed in the UK\u2019.<\/u><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) writes:<br \/>\n<\/u>New studies from Europe show how France, Germany and the Netherlands have successfully tackled housing and regeneration by using planning skills and tools to stimulate not just regulate development in a way that is markedly different from the UK, says the RTPI.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers from the University of Liverpool have identified five specific tactics \u2013 seldom used in the UK &#8211; that have led to faster and better development, especially housing development, in Western Europe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>upfront infrastructure investment to shape future development;<\/li>\n<li>this investment builds support for urban extensions, so tackling \u2018NIMBYism\u2019;<\/li>\n<li>land assembly and readjustment whereby an overarching body actively seeks out and temporarily pools together private development rights<\/li>\n<li>strong planning institutions to coordinate this development;<\/li>\n<li>regional coalition-building and strategic planning across administrative boundaries to reflect functional economic areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael Harris, Head of Research at the RTPI, said: \u2018The experience in Europe shows that planning tools such as upfront infrastructure provision and land readjustment are essential to building the kind of places with access to jobs, good infrastructure and green spaces, at the kind of scale and density required to tackle the UK\u2019s pressing housing crisis. We aren\u2019t making enough use of them in the UK.\u00a0 Planning is so much more than just about regulating the use of land, but somehow this has become the dominant thinking here and has led to the perception that planning is anti-growth, cumbersome and bureaucratic. This paper offers timely and powerful evidence that when used in a more proactive and positive way, planning can shape better development and is one of the most powerful unused weapons we have to support the UK economy and improve quality of life.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The study explains how the markets for land and property, when left to operate without intervention, are inherently incapable of delivering either the quantity or quality of places needed in the UK for sustainable economic growth.\u00a0 In-depth case studies from Hamburg, Lille and Nijmegen illustrate how planning can overcome market failure and deliver beneficial economic outcomes for people and places. In all three cases, the planning system plays an enterprising role in negotiating with, shaping, and stimulating the market. In particular, its intervention as a \u2018first mover\u2019 to animate the development process in large, cross-boundary or problematic projects through the use of the above mentioned tactics has enhanced the certainty and preconditions for private investment.<\/p>\n<p>The RTPI-commissioned study \u2018Planning as \u2018market maker\u2019: How planning is used to stimulate development in Germany, France and the Netherlands\u2019 has been undertaken by Dr Alex Lord and Dr Phil O\u2019Brien at University of Liverpool. It is funded through the RTPI\u2019s Small Projects Impact Research (SPIRe) scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/planningasmarketmaker\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/briefing-room\/news-releases\/2015\/november\/planning-lessons-from-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has been released by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) that looks at lessons from Europe on how to promote positive developments to assist in addressing housing needs, focussing on addressing \u2018Nimby\u2019-ism through up-front investment, and shows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11600,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions\/11600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}