The essential guide to planning law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK - Softcover

Sheppard, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447324463 ISBN 13: 9781447324461

Publisher: Policy Press, 2017

Synopsis

This comprehensive yet concise textbook is the first to provide a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law. Giving students essential background and contextual information to planning's statutory basis, the information is supported by practical and applied discussion to help students understand planning in the real world. The book is written in an accessible style, enabling students with little or no planning law knowledge to engage in the subject and develop the necessary level of understanding required for both professionally accredited and non-accredited courses in built environment subjects. The book will be of value to students on a range of built environment courses, particularly urban planning, architecture, environmental management and property-related programmes, as well as law and practice-orientated modules.

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Review

"An easily accessible way into the planning worlds of our UK nations for someone who is just starting their career in planning. Reasonably compact but also comprehensive, it provides an overview of planning law and practice with an obvious link to the real world. Money worth spending."--Harvey Pritchard, School of the Built Environment, Leeds Beckett University

"Sheppard and colleagues have produced an extremely accessible 'planning book that considers planning law and its application.' Written specifically for students on a variety of built environment courses, this text provides an ideal introduction to the statutory basis of planning practice and decision making whilst unraveling the distinctive legal and policy arrangements that now characterize the devolved parts of the United Kingdom."--Nick Gallent, head of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London

"Planning students--and others--can sometimes find it difficult to engage with law texts on planning.The Essential Guide to Planning Law speaks directly to planning students in a clear and concise way, giving them the confidence to engage with more complex legal material. The text also demonstrates experience and insight into what graduate planners need to know about planning, law, and practice."--Neil Harris, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University

About the Author

Adam Sheppard is Senior Lecturer of Urban Planning in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at UWE Bristol. Deborah Peel is Chair in Architecture and Planning in the School of the Environment at the University of Dundee. Dr Heather Ritchie is Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Energy Policy in the School of the Built Environment, Ulster University. Sophie Berry is a senior planning officer for the Newport City Council.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1447324463
• ISBN 13: 9781447324461
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240