Inch, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-687X, Dunning, R., While, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-3468-9489 et al. (2 more authors) (2020) 'The object is to change the heart and soul' : financial incentives, planning and opposition to new housebuilding in England. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38 (4). pp. 713-732. ISSN 2399-6544
Abstract
In 2014 the UK government announced plans to reduce opposition to housing development by making a direct payment to households in England. This was part of a wider experiment with behavioural economics and financial inducements in planning policy. In this paper we explore this proposal, named ‘Development Benefits’ (DB), arguing it offers important insights into how the governing rationality of neoliberalism attempts to govern both planning and opposition to development by replacing political debate with a depoliticised economic rationality. Drawing on householder and key player responses to the DB proposal we highlight significant levels of principled objection to the replacement of traditional forms of planning reason with financial logics. The paper therefore contributes to understandings of planning as a site of ongoing resistance to neoliberal rationalities. We conclude by questioning whether DBs represents a particular strand of ‘late neoliberal’ governmentality, exploring the potential for an alternative planning rationality to contest the narrow marketisation of planning ideas and practices.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | opposition to development; planning for housing; neoliberalism; financial incentives; conflict |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Department for Communities and Local Government CPD/004/109/008 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2020 14:45 |
Last Modified: | 04 May 2021 15:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/2399654420902149 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155699 |