Olivier Sykes is Senior Lecturer in European Spatial Planning at the University of Liverpool. His research and teaching interests include international planning studies, urban regeneration and planning for heritage conservation.John Sturzaker is Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire. His research and teaching interests include community planning, rural planning and planning for housing.

"A well-developed, refreshing, and hopefully seminal critique of recent political rhetoric, ‘reform’, deregulation and tinkering by successive governments." Town Planning Review

• 1. Introduction - Olivier Sykes and John Sturzaker2. The (housing) numbers game - Richard J. Dunning and Tom Moore3. Localism: the peccadillos of a panacea - John Sturzaker and Olivier Sykes4. Planning at the ‘larger than local’ scale: where next? - Alexander Nurse5. PD games: death comes to planning - Richard J. Dunning, Alex Lord and Mark Smith6. Building beauty? Place and housing quality in the planning agenda - Manuela Madeddu7. Zoning in or zoning out? Lessons from Europe - Sebastian Dembski and Phil O’Brien8. Planning and the Environment in England, 2010–22: cutting ‘green crap’, Brexit and environmental crises - Richard Cowell, Thomas B. Fischer and Urmila Jha Thakur9. Stuck on infrastructure? Planning for transformative effects of transport infrastructure - Chia-Lin Chen10. Conclusion - John Sturzaker and Olivier Sykes

Olivier Sykes is Senior Lecturer in European Spatial Planning at the University of Liverpool. His research and teaching interests include international planning studies, urban regeneration and planning for heritage conservation.John Sturzaker is Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire. His research and teaching interests include community planning, rural planning and planning for housing.

"A well-developed, refreshing, and hopefully seminal critique of recent political rhetoric, ‘reform’, deregulation and tinkering by successive governments." Town Planning Review

• 1. Introduction - Olivier Sykes and John Sturzaker2. The (housing) numbers game - Richard J. Dunning and Tom Moore3. Localism: the peccadillos of a panacea - John Sturzaker and Olivier Sykes4. Planning at the ‘larger than local’ scale: where next? - Alexander Nurse5. PD games: death comes to planning - Richard J. Dunning, Alex Lord and Mark Smith6. Building beauty? Place and housing quality in the planning agenda - Manuela Madeddu7. Zoning in or zoning out? Lessons from Europe - Sebastian Dembski and Phil O’Brien8. Planning and the Environment in England, 2010–22: cutting ‘green crap’, Brexit and environmental crises - Richard Cowell, Thomas B. Fischer and Urmila Jha Thakur9. Stuck on infrastructure? Planning for transformative effects of transport infrastructure - Chia-Lin Chen10. Conclusion - John Sturzaker and Olivier Sykes

Olivier Sykes is Senior Lecturer in European Spatial Planning at the University of Liverpool. His research and teaching interests include international planning studies, urban regeneration and planning for heritage conservation.John Sturzaker is Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire. His research and teaching interests include community planning, rural planning and planning for housing.

"A well-developed, refreshing, and hopefully seminal critique of recent political rhetoric, ‘reform’, deregulation and tinkering by successive governments." Town Planning Review

• 1. Introduction - Olivier Sykes and John Sturzaker2. The (housing) numbers game - Richard J. Dunning and Tom Moore3. Localism: the peccadillos of a panacea - John Sturzaker and Olivier Sykes4. Planning at the ‘larger than local’ scale: where next? - Alexander Nurse5. PD games: death comes to planning - Richard J. Dunning, Alex Lord and Mark Smith6. Building beauty? Place and housing quality in the planning agenda - Manuela Madeddu7. Zoning in or zoning out? Lessons from Europe - Sebastian Dembski and Phil O’Brien8. Planning and the Environment in England, 2010–22: cutting ‘green crap’, Brexit and environmental crises - Richard Cowell, Thomas B. Fischer and Urmila Jha Thakur9. Stuck on infrastructure? Planning for transformative effects of transport infrastructure - Chia-Lin Chen10. Conclusion - John Sturzaker and Olivier Sykes