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What Katie did next: spatial planning is an important activity, but cannot be a cure-all for the ills of our society: if it claims to be so, its inevitable failure will be used to denigrate planning. So the Barker Review of Land Use Planning needs to resist pressures and temptations to seek 'short-term fixes' through changes to the planning system.(the planning system)

FOLLOWING THE REPORT of her Review of Housing Supply, (1) Kate Barker's latest report--the Interim Report of the Review of Land Use Planning (2)--was issued for comment just in time to pack it in your holiday suitcase. The main theme of those comments should be that now is not the best time for further major changes to spatial planning in England.

Each raft of changes disrupts and delays the operation of the system, as new routines are learned and put in place. Planning is a long-term investment, and changing the system to achieve the quick-wins so beloved of modem-day politicians just does not work. It also reflects a particular penchant of British governments for ...

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