That sounds familiar! A decade of planning reform in Australia, England and New Zealand

Post-war planning and policy tourism: the international study tours of the Town and Country Planning Association 1947–1961

“…Much of it shares important features, they argue, with an established and still expanding body of work on "the trans-national flow of knowledge and expertise in the planning field" (Healey, 2010, p. 1;see, for example, Almandoz, 1999;Banerjee, 2009;Friedman, 2012;Gurran, Austin, & Whitehead, 2014;King, 1980;Lieto, 2013;Rapoport, 2014;Sanyal, 1990;Ward, 2010a;.…”

'Boulevard of Broken Dreams': Planning, Housing Supply and Aff ordability in Urban Australia

“…3 Although a number of factors could explain differential rates of housing production over this period (such as increasing government withdrawal from social housing provision), there has been particular interest in the extent to which planning -especially in the form of growth management and urban containment policy -has impeded the capacity for the market to respond to housing demand (Dawkins and Nelson, 2002;Levine, 1999;Lillydahl and Singell, 1987). In the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, the issue of housing supply and affordability became a key motif in arguments for the deregulation of development control and planning systems by the early 2000s (Barker, 2008;Gurran et al, 2014).…”

“…Despite a buoyant market, rates of new housing production appeared to stall in the years after 2000, raising concern about undersupply (National Housing Supply Council, 2009). Resonating with policy discourses in other nations (Bramley, 2007;Dorling, 2014;Gurran et al, 2014) a strong narrative emerged around the impact of land-use planning as a constraint on new land and housing supply, and as the explanation for Australia's aff ordability pressures (COAG Reform Council, 2012;Property Council of Australia, 2007a, 2007b. With planning blamed for housing market pressures, planning system 'reform' became legitimized as a response to the problem of aff ordability.…”

Policy movement in housing research: a critical interpretative synthesis

“…The rhetoric of 'choice' and 'fairness' in enacting housing policy movement is brought to the fore by PT studies (Gurran et al, 2014;Mullins and Pawson, 2005;Murphy, 2014), despite there being complex structural factors (rather than plain political intentionality) that challenge implementation. For instance, Mullins & Pawson (2005 p.226) concluded that housing scarcity and concern to restrict access in case of anti-social behaviour or likely rent arrears limit the 'implementation of choice' in choice-based letting.…”