All rights reservedWong, Cecilia2024-03-202024-03-202015978-80-01-05782-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1458Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Definite Space – Fuzzy Responsibility, Prague, 13-16th July, 2015Following the recovery from the global financial downturn, the underlying policy issues of house price inflation, a high demand for owner occupation, restricted land supply, and a relatively small social sector new build programme are resurfacing again in the UK. The boom and bust housing cycles have long been a major challenge to successive governments. The way the Coalition Government managed the economic downturn was to dismantle regional planning and strategic planning in England and replaced it with an open source, local-oriented style of neighbourhood planning. This paper examines the spatial patterns of recovery in different housing markets and provides a critical review of the policy experiments and fragmented institutional framework in house planning. It argues that strategic coordination of spatial development has to be part of the policy package to tackle the major housing crisis.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject2968-2977