Inclusive Participation in Planning the UK: Research through Practice

This book is a comprehensive guide to effective public participation in planning decisions. It advocates for enagement rather than consultation; long-term community engagement; and post-occupancy data collection. Focused principally on the UK context, the book will also be of interest to professionals, students, and researchers elsewhere. Guided by principles of quality of life and social value, this is the first comprehensive guide for planners and landscape architects in delivering effective face-to-face and digital public participation in planning decisions. The book furthers the argument for public participation to be seen as engagement rather than consultation, and for community involvement to become integral to planning decisions rather than a box ticking exercise. The book advocates for long-term engagement with communities during a planning process, beginning with the allocation of land before moving through the development process. It also suggests post-occupancy evaluation and data gathering, information that can then feed into further proposals and decision-making. Focused principally on the UK context, the book will nevertheless be of interest to professionals involved in planning decisions throughout the world, as well as students and researchers engaged with the discipline. The Open Access version of this book, available at , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.