{"id":51857,"date":"2019-01-31T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=51857"},"modified":"2019-01-31T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:20:55","slug":"austerity-reduced-planners-ability-to-serve-public-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/austerity-reduced-planners-ability-to-serve-public-interest\/51857\/","title":{"rendered":"Austerity reduced planners\u2019 ability to serve public interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Austerity in England has eroded planning\u2019s ability to serve the public interest, according to planners who took part in a study by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/\">Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/\">Newcastle University<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Under-resourcing, coupled with reforms that have undermined planning\u2019s strategic role, have relegated it to a largely reactive, regulatory function in many local authorities, creating a \u201cbox-ticking culture that has closed off the space many planners traditionally used for reflection, professional discretion and proactive planning\u201d, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>This makes it harder to undertake the long-term strategic thinking and professional discretion that both public and private sector planners feel is needed to deliver the public interest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/media\/3195665\/Serving%20the%20Public%20Interest%202019.pdf\">the study says.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Planners are also increasingly sceptical about the value-for-money of outsourcing and its effects on service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/witpi.group.shef.ac.uk\/\">Serving the public interest?<\/a> The reorganisation of planning services in an era of reluctant outsourcing\u201d is an in-depth qualitative study based on focus groups held in Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Greater London and the South East with around 50 planning professionals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/briefing-room\/news-releases\/2018\/january\/royal-town-planning-institute-announces-new-chief-executive\/\">Victoria Hills, RTPI Chief Executive<\/a> said: \u201cLocal planning authorities have demonstrated exceptional resilience in the face of austerity by becoming more streamlined and efficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst planners in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland remain overall confident, planning in England does face some serious challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaces where authorities put planning at the heart of their corporate strategy are successful places to live, yet our research uncovers a prevailing sense that local authority planners face huge challenges to their ability to plan effectively in the public interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an issue we take seriously. That\u2019s why we are campaigning local authorities to put planning back at the top table of corporate decision-making and will continue to make the case for better resourcing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study highlights the \u201causterity planner\u201d, an emerging type of public sector planner whose career has been defined by austerity and post-2010 planning reforms in England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAusterity planners\u201d are in high demand and are often highly skilled, but they often have \u201clittle room for proactive planning or independently executing their professional judgement\u201d, which can erode job satisfaction and critical reflection, the study finds.<\/p>\n<p>They are also found to move jobs rapidly, often at the expense of building long-term relationships with customers, places and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Sound, experienced leadership has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/victorian-edwardian-buildings-at-risk\/48601\/\">suffered under austerity<\/a>, with many consultancies offering a well-paid alternative to the public sector.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austerity in England has eroded planning\u2019s ability to serve the public interest, according to planners who took part in a study by the RTPI and Newcastle University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[679,952,649,567,592],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-local-plan","8":"tag-planning","9":"tag-planning-applications","10":"tag-planning-system","11":"tag-skills"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Austerity reduced planners\u2019 ability to serve public interest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Austerity in England has eroded planning\u2019s ability to serve the public interest, according to planners who took part in a study by the RTPI and Newcastle University\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/austerity-reduced-planners-ability-to-serve-public-interest\/51857\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Austerity reduced planners\u2019 ability to serve public interest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Austerity in England has eroded planning\u2019s ability to serve the public interest, according to planners who took part in a study by the RTPI and Newcastle University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/austerity-reduced-planners-ability-to-serve-public-interest\/51857\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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