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Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We attended the launch of the much anticipated #ICON final report yesterday in London. Great to hear place planning come up.

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Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

JustNeighbourhoods work is coming to it conclusion soon and we are holding a symposium where this will be discussed along with #C4 and #ICON representation. Contact us if you are interested in attending on 5th Feb – we have just a few slots going still #planning for #socialjustice

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Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A beach toy library organised by Together for Colwyn Bay – a group of local residents that organise and fund community projects using asset-based community development. Check out more here: research.reading.ac.uk/justclp/phot...

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Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Our latest paper is now available to read: "Justice in Community-Led Planning: A Four-Nation Review" We analysed community-led plans across the UK—especially from left behind areas—to explore how justice is understood and acted on locally. What does this mean for how we theorise justice?

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Big digital billboards can emit 11 homes' worth of energy and cause harmful light pollution - but local authorities aren't allowed to take this into account when deciding whether to allow them to be built. This week I called for this to be changed #BetterWithoutBillboards @adfreecities.bsky.social‬

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Royal Town Planning Institute @rtpiplanners.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Why does planning need more time? And how long 'should' a planning decision take? Dr Mark Dobson has studied the reasons for and impacts of the widespread use of Extensions of Time in determining applications for development. Find out more: www.rtpi.org.uk/policy-and-r...

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Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Announcing the publication of a new book on planning theory, Critical Planning Futures, with some amazing contributions from academics across the Global South & North, all devoted to analysing the form & future of urban planning. Plus this is Book #20 for me! www.routledge.com/Critical-Pla...

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Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods @iconeighbours.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Great to see The Economist coverage of ICON's recent research with Public First. You can read the piece here: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Royal Town Planning Institute @rtpiplanners.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Where next with land value capture and planning obligations in England? Robbie Calvert defines what land value capture is and how it can be refined 👇 www.rtpi.org.uk/blog/2025/april/rob…

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Robbie Calvert: Land Value Capture

The success of approaches to land value capture has varied markedly across the country.

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

#OpenAccess paper in Area: 'Ethnographic fingerprints: Examining co-participation, positionality, and interpersonal relationships in diary method' by Julius Baker This paper explores the growing use of solicited diaries in human geography research. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Julius Baker (2025) entitled 'Ethnographic fingerprints: Examining co-participation, positionality, and interpersonal relationshisp in diary method' with a black banner at the top.

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School of Environment, Education, and Development @uomseed.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

How can land value capture policies contribute to the Gov's house building plans and help fund affordable housing and public infrastructure? Dr Sotirios Thanos, Dr Eero Valtonen, and Prof Anupam Nanda have provided evidence to the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee inquiry.

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We're Right Here @right-here.org · 23/04/2025

With local elections fast approaching, polling reveals a clear demand from the public: devolve power, and do it at the community level. Over 50% of the UK believes that giving community groups more power over local decisions would improve their areas. Read more: www.right-here.org/wp-content/u...

Over half the UK believe that giving community groups more power over local decisions would improve their areas.

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Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Our latest working paper shares information about the case studies we are exploring: 🔹 England – Middlesbrough & Doncaster 🔹 Scotland – Glasgow & Fife 🔹 Wales – Denbighshire & Conwy 🔹 Northern Ireland – Belfast & Armagh Read the Working Paper 4 here: research.reading.ac.uk/justclp/just... ‎

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Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The latest title in the Routledge @rtpiplanners.bsky.social RTPI Library book series is Rural Planning Futures edited by @markscott-ucd.bsky.social John Sturzaker Nick Gallent @gavinparker.bsky.social Amy Burnett & @ianmell.bsky.social www.routledge.com/RTPI-Library...

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Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"Most plans do not talk about equity, nor do they include many goals & recommendations that would advance equity. More recent plans, plans in communities with more planning capacity... & plans with strong public participation processes have stronger equity orientations." — Loh & Kim

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Neighbourhood Planning - information, resources and events

The Neighbourhood Planning resource website provides introductory material and resources for people interested or involved in neighbourhood planning.

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

📚 Published Article A very important piece of work on children’s playgrounds. To Play or Not to Play : Mapping Unequal Provision of Children's Playgrounds by Paul Brindley, Yueshan Ma, @ruiwang.bsky.social , @mic-martin.bsky.social, and Helen Woolley Read Here : lnkd.in/dVVk_2hV

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Great article by @pettertornberg.bsky.social on how investors in Rio boost the online visibility of their establishments. The Instagrammable props, such as neon letters and graffiti, are merely the most striking expressions of a profound reshaping of places journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Social Media Imaginaries and the City: How the Attention Economy Is Reshaping Urban Built Environments - Petter Törnberg, 2025

Social media are becoming a growing presence in our cities, filtering our experience of urban place and enabling locations to “go viral.” This article examines ...

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RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Book presentation: Planning Beyond Growth, by Yvonne Rydin. 9/4. Registration Link: urban-futures.at/hot-off-the-... #urban #sociology

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Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The research team – Gavin Parker, Matthew Wargent, John Sturzaker and Tessa Lynn – penned a short response to the recently launched ‘Plan for Neighbourhoods’ asking how people will actually be involved... research.reading.ac.uk/justclp/just...

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Just Neighbourhoods team response to the Plan for Neighbourhoods - Just Neighbourhoods?

The research team - Gavin Parker, Matthew Wargent, John Sturzaker and Tessa Lynn - penned a short response to the recently launched ‘Plan for Neighbourhoods’ asking how people will actually be invol...

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Paul Silk @paulsilk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I am very interested in the extent to which the Planning and Infrastructure Bill may remove powers from the Senedd and Welsh Ministers - if it does, or if it does without requiring their consent. I hope someone will enlighten us! www.gov.uk/government/n...

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'Biggest building boom' in a generation through planning reforms

Homes and key infrastructure will be built faster under Planning and Infrastructure Bill

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Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Why community energy is a vital piece of the net zero puzzle, and what the state needs to do to support it 👇

The Committee on Climate Change and the National Energy Systems Operator recognise that involving people on the journey is the only way we are going to make progress on net zero targets at the pace we need. This journey is going to involve individual behaviour change and unlocking public consent for new renewable energy infrastructure. Community energy provides a route through both of these knotty challenges, and will be a vital contributor to the Government’s ambitious 2030 clean power target.

However, it’s worth considering community energy in context. The rate of growth in renewable energy in the UK over the past few decades has been remarkable. We’ve witnessed exponential growth in wind power capacity, and huge increases in solar capacity. As discussed above, the speed of expansion in community energy has been more mixed.

What we do know is that in places like Germany and Denmark, community energy at scale is unremarkable. Wind energy is roughly 50% community owned in both places. There is nothing to say the UK couldn’t one day do the same, but we have to learn the lessons of such an approach. These include the importance of an enabling national state, the coordination between local projects and a wider support infrastructure, including municipal government.

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Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods @iconeighbours.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

To inform our interim report, Think Neighbourhoods, Public First examined public attitudes towards neighbourhoods. We found a palpable sense of visible decline across the country, which was most acute in those neighbourhoods furthest from the government’s five missions.

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Critical toolkit from @philipphorn.bsky.social and colleagues underscoring the importance of challenging epistemic orthodoxies and hierarchies

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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🗣️ Don't miss our free webinar with Dinah Bornat (ZCD Architects) on the Voice Opportunity Power toolkit: a free resource with practical guidance on how to involve young people in the way that places get built and managed. 📅 Monday 24 March 12-1pm 🎟️ buff.ly/4kln7SX

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Youth engagement in planning, regeneration and neighbourhood management - Voice Opportunity Power - Town and Country Planning Association

Young people have a right to be involved in the decisions that shape the places where they live and including them creates better places for everyone. The Voice Opportunity Power…

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Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ever heard of a sport-led neighbourhood before? Some ambitious plans from Lord Foster and Manchester United. Are protective umbrellas the future of sustainable neighbourhoods? This would be another shiny addition to some portfolios, but is it what local people want? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Man Utd to build 'iconic' £2bn 100,000-capacity stadium close to Old Trafford

Manchester United announce plans to build the biggest stadium in the UK - an

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Julia Thrift @juliathrift.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Should #planning in England be #deregulated to increase the number of new #homes? Prof Ben Clifford @ucl.ac.uk has researched the outcomes & is speaking on Thurs evening at this FREE public lecture. Vital for anyone interested in planning #policy, #PublicHealth www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pla...

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Exploring planning deregulation's consequences: the case of permitted development rights in England

Join Professor Ben Clifford in the next instalment of the Bartlett School of Planning Public Lecture Series.

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Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Great write up of @publicfirst.bsky.social @iconeighbours.bsky.social data by @tomcalver.bsky.social. Potholes, high street decline and lack of access to healthcare the most pressing issues for people - and these are unifying concerns across different areas. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

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Huge win! Government announces plan to open up Land Registry

This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Today the UK Government has announced plans to open up the Land Registry – which, if delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wale…

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Just Neighbourhoods? @justclp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It is interesting to see the release of the governments #planforneighbourhoods given our work @JustCLP, it will be important to ensure that community voices are not sidelined and #hyperlocal planning is emphasised #planningforjustice www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Plan for Neighbourhoods: prospectus

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We're looking for a few more papers for our RGS-IBG conference session on Urban politics, crises and the conjuncture. If interested please submit abstracts to @colinlorne.bsky.social & I by Thursday 6th Feb. @rgsibg.bsky.social

“There are many different ways of thinking about the current crisis, but certainly one useful way is to think about the present as a conjuncture” – Doreen Massey

Urban politics, crises, and the conjuncture

From economic turmoil and ecological catastrophe to political instability and growing social unrest, there are multiple crises reshaping the political terrain as we know it. But with growing popular and academic attempts to get to grips with crises in these troubling times, ‘urban crisis’ has been a longstanding concern for geographical investigation. In taking seriously Hall and Massey’s (2010) contention that no crisis is singularly economic, but also hinges along ideological and political axes, we contend that urban scholarship and methodological approaches to studying the politics of cities has much to contribute towards interpreting the multiple, intersecting crises taking hold in the political present and the kinds of responses this might demand. Informed by scholars such as Doreen Massey, Stuart Hall and Gillian Hart, moves towards relational and conjunctural analysis among urban and economic geographers seek to knit together fine-grained engagements with the complexities of place with a wider constellation of shifting forces and relations, moving away from bounded notions of scale whilst also rejecting the flat ontologies and binary approaches characterising previous debates. Instead, conjunctural approaches are pushing urban geographers to think beyond traditional notions of comparison and political economy by encouraging new modes of comparative experimentation and methodological innovation for global urban studies (Ward 2010, Hart 2018, Robinson 2022). This work helps to produce fine grained engagements and analyses of urban politics and the ways that urban geographies are shaped by processes such as financialization and its dire effects on politics and social reproduction, geopolitical unrest and the erosion of urban (and other forms of) democracy, o…

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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Our webinar on 18 March will share guidance on successful infrastructure delivery in new developments. We'll cover practical case studies & actionable steps on: - large-scale delivery vehicles & strategies - locally led development corporations - community owned infrastructure shorturl.at/kVXMt

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TCPA Webinar - Infrastructure Delivery - Town and Country Planning Association

This webinar responds to a high demand for guidance on successful infrastructure delivery in new developments. The session will cover practical case studies and actionable steps, covering: Part of ou...

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Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

With the English Devolution Bill set be introduced to parliament this year, we have a huge opportunity to shift where power in this country lies. Join the webinar later today to hear how you can help that happen 👇👇

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Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Announcing a new book on planning theory, Critical Planning Futures, by Phil Allmendinger, Mark Tewdwr-Jones & Matt Wargent, with contributions from academics across the Global South & North, all devoted to analysing the form & future of urban planning www.routledge.com/Critical-Pla...

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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

'We are in the paradigm shift away from the simplistic notion that it is doctors and nurses who do health, and back to a recognition that many sectors have a central part to play.' Our latest TCPA archives blog explores the relationship between planning & public health: shorturl.at/ZXx0I

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From the archive: How to do health

From the archive: How to do health?  'How to do health?' was the big question posed in John Ashton's 1991 article in the December edition of Town and Country Planning. At the time, health was hi...

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Community Land Scotland @communitylandsc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Community energy has so much potential. It needs to be easier for communities to invest in renewables if we are to see community-led regeneration and a more resilient economy. Scotland's renewables wealth is literally blowing away right now. bsky.app/profile/scot...

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Some much needed inspiration from Grimsby on this rather damp Thursday morning. “Trees are just better for our streets and communities.” “No one else is going to do it... so we might as well crack on.”

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‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert

In Grimsby, locals have created a society focused on the environmental and health benefits more trees provide, planting thousands in schools, parks and hedgerows

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Town Planning Review Volume 96.1 includes reviews of the latest #urbanplanning publications, with contributions from @marccollinson.bsky.social, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, and @giulioverdini.bsky.social Online at: bit.ly/TPR-96-1 @markscott-ucd.bsky.social

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Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🗞️🧐 the February newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network is out, collating events, workshops, publications, resources etc on #democracy #participation #deliberation #coproduction #commons Available here 👉 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

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Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Looking forward to this @communitylandsc.bsky.social event in a few weeks - sharing experiences and learning between England, Scotland and Wales about community ownership and the transformational change it can deliver. 📍 London 📆 26/02 ⌚ 6 - 8pm 👇👇 www.communitylandscotland.org.uk/event/sf-lec...

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Simon Fraser Memorial Lecture 2025 – Community Land Scotland

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 04/02/2025

A new investigation from The Conversation and @retractionwatch.com sheds light on a troubling phenomenon: Fake research papers are contaminating scientific literature at an alarming rate, with hundreds of thousands of bogus studies circulating.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In memoriam of Professor Benjamin Davy, his colleagues have written a tribute honouring his legacy as a brilliant scholar, mentor, and advocate for justice in spatial planning. Available to read via the link below. On behalf of the Town Planning Review Editorial Board

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Professor Benjamin Davy – In Memoriam

It is with much regret that we record the death of our former editorial colleague Benjamin Davy who passed away on 24 January 2025 aged 68 at his home in Bielefeld. Ben was a long-standing support…

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/02/2025

Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

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Martin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Let's have some positive news in the UK HE sector to kick the week off nicely. International student firm acceptances from the major recruitment markets seem to be up significantly. The combined effect of Trump and caps in Australia and Canada, maybe. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/positiv...

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‘Positive signals’ for UK international recruitment in September

Early data from UniQuest shows a 38 per cent increase in firm acceptances for autumn intake

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