Exploring planning deregulation's consequences

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

Room G13

In 2013, central government introduced a planning deregulation called ‘permitted development’ for the conversion of office buildings to residential use across England, followed from 2015 onwards by similar measures allowing the conversion of a range of other commercial and agricultural buildings into residential use without the need for the full scrutiny of a planning permission. In this talk, Ben will draw from the findings of various research projects he has led to consider the multiple implications of this deregulation, outlining how it did lead to tens of thousands of housing units being delivered but with a range of problematic issues arising around the loss of business space, the location of some conversions, the affordability and, in particular, the quality of much of the housing created. He will conclude by considering what this approach to planning reform tells us about the wider policy approach to resolving the housing crisis and the role of planning regulation in proactive place-making. Speaker bio:Ben Clifford is Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance at the UCL Bartlett School of Planning. His research and teaching are focussed on reform of the planning system in the UK and its relationships with broader questions of governance of the built and natural environment and the nature of the state. He has considered this in relation to devolution, outsourcing, policy implementation, infrastructure planning and housing quality and delivery. He has co-authored five books as well as numerous articles and his research on permitted development has been widely cited in the print media, by a parliamentary select committee and by the broadcast media. Ben is also the Programme Director for the MSc Spatial Planning and MSc Spatial Planning Degree Apprenticeship degree courses at UCL.

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