Article: 'Integrated' spatial planning--is it living up to expectations? Focusing on integration between different policy sectors and strategies, Dave Counsell, Phil Allmendinger, Graham Haughton and Geoff Vigar report early findings from a research project exploring just how integrated 'integrated spatial planning' really is at national and regional levels.(spatial planning)

MORE JOINED-UP GOVERNMENT has been a constant ambition in the public service modernisation programmes of successive New Labour governments and of governments in the devolved administrations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. As part of these wider modernisation agendas, planning systems are being recast as mechanisms to improve policy integration, both horizontally across sectors and policy domains, and vertically between policy actors and scales of governance. Of particular interest are the shifts towards spatial strategies that provide guidance to the spatial expression of other policy streams, implying a growing interaction between planners and actors in other ...

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