Reforming England's Infrastructure Planning System from a Neoliberal Perspective

Sijie Liu; Fang Yuan; Yanyu Yang; Jihao Wang

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Reforming England's Infrastructure Planning System from a Neoliberal Perspective

Sijie Liu, Fang Yuan, Yanyu Yang, Jihao Wang

Published in Urban and Regional Planning (Volume 8, Issue 3)

Received: 16 June 2023 Accepted: 10 July 2023 Published: 21 July 2023

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Since the establishment of the local amplitude planning marker rights system in 1947, the UK has continued to maintain economic growth through reforms to the planning system, institutional innovation and democratic reform experiments have accelerated since 2000, and the National Planning Policy Framework released in 2012 has guided the national planning system more streamlined and further decentralized. The UK's evolution as a practitioner and innovator in the field of planning systems reform, from land-use planning to spatial planning, and then from centralization to decentralization and devolution, reflects the UK government's institutional innovation in sustainable spatial development, but this democratic reform experiment has also generated a great deal of debate. Compared to other countries, this bottom-up The neo-liberal reforms in the field of planning triggered by this bottom-up planning system have raised concerns about the issue of urban synergy and national strategic ambiguity, but also affirm the loose economic dynamism that this approach to planning brings. This article will sort out and offer an overview of the England infrastructure planning system, analyze and discuss the challenges faced by the UK's current spatial planning system due to the neoliberal transformation, and how the various sectors collaborate, with a focus on the National Road Network.

Published in	Urban and Regional Planning (Volume 8, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.urp.20230803.13
Page(s)	48-51
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Neoliberal Reforms, England's Infrastructure, Road Infrastructure, Government Decentralization Reforms

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Sijie Liu, Fang Yuan, Yanyu Yang, Jihao Wang. Reforming England's Infrastructure Planning System from a Neoliberal Perspective. Urban Reg Plan. 2023;8(3):48-51. doi: 10.11648/j.urp.20230803.13

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Sijie Liu

Comprehensive Transportation Development Research Center, Tianjin Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute Co., Tianjin, China
Fang Yuan

Urban Transportation, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yanyu Yang

Urban Design and International Planning, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Jihao Wang

Institute of Urban Planning, China Design Group Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China

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