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Reforming England's Infrastructure Planning System from a Neoliberal Perspective

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Since the establishment of the local amplitude planning marker rights system in 1947, the UK has continued to maintain economic growth through reforms to the planning system, institutional innovation and democratic reform experiments have accelerated since 2000, and the National Planning Policy Framework released in 2012 has guided the national planning system more streamlined and further decentralized. The UK's evolution as a practitioner and innovator in the field of planning systems reform, from land-use planning to spatial planning, and then from centralization to decentralization and devolution, reflects the UK government's institutional innovation in sustainable spatial development, but this democratic reform experiment has also generated a great deal of debate. Compared to other countries, this bottom-up The neo-liberal reforms in the field of planning triggered by this bottom-up planning system have raised concerns about the issue of urban synergy and national strategic ambiguity, but also affirm the loose economic dynamism that this approach to planning brings. This article will sort out and offer an overview of the England infrastructure planning system, analyze and discuss the challenges faced by the UK's current spatial planning system due to the neoliberal transformation, and how the various sectors collaborate, with a focus on the National Road Network.

Published in Urban and Regional Planning (Volume 8, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.urp.20230803.13
Page(s) 48-51
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Keywords

Neoliberal Reforms, England's Infrastructure, Road Infrastructure, Government Decentralization Reforms

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Author Information
  • Comprehensive Transportation Development Research Center, Tianjin Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute Co., Tianjin, China

  • Urban Transportation, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Urban Design and International Planning, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  • Institute of Urban Planning, China Design Group Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China

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