Planning for Small Town Change

Neil Powe is Senior Lecturer in Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK. His two career research interests are non-market environmental valuation and rural planning, with small town research providing the focus of his efforts in more recent years. His work with Trevor Hart has enhanced our understanding of small towns, in terms of their characteristics and their various functions, interactions and future viability.Trevor Hart is Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK. He has a number of years of experience of practice in planning and economic development. He has also worked as a consultant, mainly involved in the evaluation of government and EU regeneration programmes. He has recently produced, with colleagues at Newcastle University, an update of Cullingworth’s classic Town & Country Planning in the UK.

• Chapter 1 – Introduction Part I: Understanding the challenge Chapter 2 – Choices in managing small town change Chapter 3 – Small town planning aspirations Chapter 4 – Match policy to reality Part II: Mechanisms for planning change Chapter 5 – The framework for policy generation Chapter 6 – The English planning system in an international context Chapter 7 – Managing change at the small town level Part III: Making a difference at the small town level Chapter 8 – Localising and sustaining small town regeneration Chapter 9 – Planning and managing housing growth Chapter 10 – Exploring small town centre futures Chapter 11- Conclusion