Casting light to the shadows of informal planning networks: how downstream stakeholders seek and protect salience in neighbourhood planning enclaves
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2016
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Established neighbourhoods carry a history of commercial, government and community interests that are put at stake in neighbourhood planning initiatives. In an effort to reduce uncertainty and protect community interests, local government planning agencies often define a boundary for any given neighbourhood planning project to ensure that only the voices within the boundary (and by extension, local residential and business community) are considered in any subsequent planning decisions. While these approaches are often considered inclusive in nature, as they champion the voice of local community, this inclusion comes at the cost of excluding stakeholders that sit downstream of many of the consequential changes to the physical, social and economic environment. While these downstream stakeholders hold no legitimate inclusion into localised neighbourhood planning initiatives, the potential consequences may drive downstream stakeholders to proactively seek the inclusion of their interests in an otherwise exclusive planning regime (as per Stratford & Wells, 2009). Why downstream stakeholders seek inclusion is not a mystery, particularly in contexts where inclusion is not a central tenet of the planning initiative (Innes, 1996), but how (and with what impact) is largely underexplored beyond the generalist term of “lobbying”.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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