Collaborative planning in a stakeholder society

Spatial planning asserts the ideal of improving quality of life by promoting, managing and regulating place making, but spatial planning practices have often been out of place in governance environments and policy cultures, with public policy framed as if place and space are irrelevant. Emerging forms of the British planning system are explored in the context of conflict management of land use and development and promoting qualities of places. New ways of working are required and changes in the formal arrangements of the planning system are needed.