Developers can appeal planning decisions, communities have no such rights. We submitted a complaint to the #Aarhus Compliance Committee in Aug saying this is not #fair. Today Ben Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland presented our case. We wait to see if admissible. Result Friday. RSPB Scotland Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎

My latest Planning theory&prac @planningtheory.bsky.social editorial on the value of land, available free to download tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Re-centring 'land' in planning - climate action, nature recovery, energy, wellbeing, food security, social justice

Good to see Spaces of Hope: People's Plans & Jason Slade featured in Tribune thanks to Josh White tribunemag.co.uk/2023/01/commun…

Interface #freetodownload "In all the cases, we can wonder whether resistance to change is driven by racism or conspiracy theories, threatens a greater good,or reflects justifiable distrust of oversold initiatives or governmental overreach". #planning tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excellent #freetodownload #openaccess article from Zoe Hamstead on 'Critical Heat Studies' #heat #inequity #climatechange tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Along with Urban Studies and Planning at Sheffield University colleagues, I am not being paid for 3 weeks due to The University of Sheffield's punitive stance towards UCU’s current Marking & Assessment Boycott. The MAB is due to pay erosion and working conditions in HE, affecting students’ learning conditions. More detail below:

Sue Brownill discussing the Spaces of Hope: People's Plans project and the hidden histories of community planning in the UK, at the European planning schools congress in Łódź. #aesop

New Spaces of Hope: People's Plans exhibition up at Town & Country Planning Association conference in Bournville today

Farewell - really au revoir - to an inspirational in all the best ways colleague - we'll miss you Steve Connelly 😢 Urban Studies and Planning at Sheffield University Paula Meth Andy Inch Jason Slade Tom Goodfellow Glyn Williams Melanie Lombard Lee Crookes @Philipp__Horn

New policy paper❗Developed at BSP, in collaboration with researchers across the country, the policy paper, titled ‘Planning for the Public: Why #Labour should support a public planning system,’ lays out a series of five core areas for #PlanningReform ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/plann…

Join us to discuss the hidden histories of community -led planning Tuesday 5 September at 15:30 Amazing panel including Planning Democracy Alastair McIntosh Replace The M8 Community Land Scotland Academic perspectives Cliff Hague Andy Inch Geraint Ellis Spaces of Hope: People's Plans eventbrite.co.uk/e/spaces-of-ho…

If you're in Glasgow next week then it would be great to see you at this Spaces of Hope: People's Plans event...

Jane Jacobs has been shaping our conversations about cities for 60+ years. Join us as 3 preeminent urbanists assess her relevance and consider the uses, misuses, and limitations of her arguments in planning the contemporary neighborhood. Nov 14, 6:00pm: villagepreservation.org/event/the-uses…

#degrowth and post-growth are gaining salience in the context of dealing with the global climate crisis. What role can the spatial planning profession play in operationalizing these ideas? Daniel Durrant, Christian Lamker 🇪🇺, and Yvonne Rydin discuss: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"In her new book Mapping Possibility, Leonie Sandercock arranges some of her most significant writings along the trajectory of her professional and emotional life." @valerieestahl and Robert Beauregard review: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Strong recommend for the Good Neighbours documentary discussed in this piece by @mjhowcroft - much better viewing than anything else on the telly tonight

.Royal Historical Society has today issued a statement on the proposed cuts and closures Oxford Brookes in #History & other depts bit.ly/40YVjut These cuts are extensive. They risk the future of staff students, and the very research culture for which Brookes historians are known.

Just in case you missed our final project event on the 29th of November you can now find a recording here: peoplesplans.org/final-project-…

If you've not checked out the Spaces of Hope: People's Plans plans website recently, it's well worth a look/losing yourself for hours. Colleagues have done a great job of pulling things together as the project comes to a close: peoplesplans.org/peoplesplans/e…

#Placemaking A concept "embraced by grass roots community actors, civic agencies, artists, market-driven developers and entrepreneurial local governments, albeit with different goals in mind," how do we make sense of its meaning? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…