Publication: Strategic leadership and planning in a localist agenda: lessons from the north west of England
| dc.contributor.author | Baker, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ziafati Bafarasat, Abbas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-11T12:32:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-11T12:32:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | en |
| dc.description | Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Definite Space – Fuzzy Responsibility, Prague, 13-16th July, 2015 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Following the 2010 election, the new Coalition government in the UK abolished the English regional (planning and development) institutions and their strategies, establishing business-led bodies of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) at the city regional scale, and a cross-local authority ‘Duty-to- Cooperate’ to feed in informal strategies and deliver projects around cross-boundary issues such as housing, transport, the environment, and strategic sites. Given the non-statutory status of the LEPs and the loose framework for the Duty to Cooperate, this paper draws on empirical case study research undertaken by the authors in three city-regions of North West England to investigate whether strategic spatial priorities can be effectively planned and delivered under this highly neo-liberalised and localised system. In other words, it asks whether strategic thinking can still take place in a weak strategic / sub-regional environment. In examining the inclination and ability of LEPs for spatial governance, we identified three typologies of their roles in the city-regions studied: ‘expedient leader’, ‘ambitious mediator’, and ‘political and functional rival’. These findings, along with those of the Duty-to-Cooperate in cross-local consensus building and delivery, result in lessons about building corporatist institutions of strategic governance as well as the institutional and legislative contexts of ‘bottom-up’ strategic planning. | |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-80-01-05782-7 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 1478-1496 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1141 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Definite Space – Fuzzy Responsibility, Prague, 13-16th July, 2015 | en |
| dc.title | Strategic leadership and planning in a localist agenda: lessons from the north west of England | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | Published version | en |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |