EFPC01. EFFECTIVENESS OF PLANNING & PLANNING CONTROL:
KEY REFERENCES
(updated: May 18, 2006 )

• Detailed Topic Index / Effectiveness of Planning etc. Index
• Main Planning bibliographies Index
• For relevant addresses, telephone/fax numbers, email & website addresses see
  PLANNING & PLANNING RELATED ORGANISATIONS
  
• See also:-
• Advertising controls, Aesthetic factors in plg./Urban Design, Effectiveness of plg. & plg. control (gen.),
  other international plg., Plg. agreements & obligations, Plg. aid, Plg. conditions, Plg. consultancy,
  Plg. enforcement, Plg. implementation, UK plg. in a Euro. context,
• Env'mental assessment / Strategic env'mental ass't (SEA) / Sus'bility indicators in Sustainable Dev.
• and also: Access to info., Central gov (& plg.), Conservation & Listed bldgs., Countryside plg.,
• Development Plans: (Regional plg. / Structure plg. / LDDs & LDFs / Local plg. / Unitary Dev. Plans (UDPs),
• and also: Conservation/Listed buildings, Countryside plg., Employment plg., Green belts, Housing & plg.,
  Minerals plg., Offices, Open space plg., Plg. & pollution etc., Plg. appeals & inquiries, Retail plg.,
  Supplementary plg. guidance (SPG), Sustainable development, Sustainable transport,
  Urban Design, Urban regeneration, Waste plg. (gen.)
• N.B. also the RTPI library catalogue on the web - go to http://www.rtpi.org.uk/library/lib_search.html
  
  and these websites:-
• Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), London: http://www.communities.gov.uk/
• LGG (Local Government Group, comprising all planning lawyers working for local authorities): http://www.lgg.org.uk
• Michael Edward's (University College London) Development Processes (UK and Europe) site: http://spider.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/RIS/RISWEB.ISA
• Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (took over DTLR planning and local government in May 2002): http://www.odpm.gov.uk/
• Parliament: http://www.parliament.uk
• Planning Applications (Ian Butler site): http://www.planning-applications.co.uk
• Planners Network (UK): http//www.plannersnetwork.co.uk
• Planning Inspectorate (PINS) (including performance information): http://www.planning-inspectorate.gov.uk
• Planning Officers Society (includng Best Value site): http://www.planningofficers.org.uk
• Planning Portal (Planning Inspectorate): http://www.planningportal.gov.uk
• Planning Resource (Planning, the RTPI, Regeneration & Renewal, Development Control Services & Axis): http://www.planningresource.co.uk
• RoyaI Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS): http://www.rics.org.uk
• Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI): http://www.rtpi.org.uk
• This Week's Finds in Planning (US): http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/sppdnet/krieger/index.html
• TCPA Information Exchange (on the Planning Green Paper etc): http://www.tcpa.org.uk/pgpforum.htm
• Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA): http://www.tcpa.org.uk
• TRL (Transport Research Laboratory) centre for sustainability website for SEA: http://www.sea-info.net

OFL = Ordered for Library - please check University Library catalogue for latest on availability:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/
* indicates most up to date and/or useful references

Allmendiger, Philip; Prior, Alan & Raemaekers, Jeremy, 1999, 'Introduction to Planning Practice', John Wiley, Chichester. GP5511.INT

Audit Commission, 1998, 'Building Quality - A Review of Progress on Development Control', Audit Commission Publications, September. (OFL)

Booth, P, 1996, 'Controlling Development- Certainty and Discretion in Europe, the USA and Hong Kong, London: UCL Press
Booth, Philip, 2003, 'Planning by Consent: The Search for Public Interest in the Control of Urban Development', Spon Press / Routledge, London. ISBN 0 415 24410 7 (OFL on 16.9.03)

Committee on Standards in Public Life (The Nolan Committee), 1997, 'Standards in Public Life: Standards of Conduct in England, Wales and Scotland: Chapter 6: The Planning System’, The Stationery Office, London.

Cullingworth, J. Barry, 1997, ‘Planning policy - time for a change’ (50 years of experience with the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act), Town and Country Planing 66 (5), May.
Cullingworth, J. & Nadin, Vincent, 1997, ‘Town and Country Planning in the UK’, 12th edition, Routledge, London. GP5511.CUL
Cullingworth, J.Barry & Nadin, Vincent, 2001, 'Town and Country Planning in the UK', 13th edition, Routledge, London, September. ISBN 0 415 21774-1 (Hb) / 0 415 21775-X (Pb) (OFL 7.8.01)

Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), London
(took over planning and housing etc. functions from the Offfice of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) in May 2006:
- website: http://www.communities.gov.uk/

Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions (DTLR) (June 1997-)
Planning Green Paper & Associated Documents: http://www.planning.dtlr.gov.uk/consult/greenpap/greenind.htm
- 'Planning Green Paper, Planning: Delivering a Fundamental Change', December 2001.
- 'Planning: Delivering A Fundamental Change (Regulatory Impact Appraisal)', December 2001.
- 'Planning Fees', December 2001,
- 'Compulsory Purchase and Compensation: the Government's Proposals for Change', December 2001.
- 'Planning Obligations', December 2001.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) (June 1997 - June 2001) replaced by the
Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions (DTLR) (June 2001-May 2002-)
'Planning Policy Guidance Notes (1988 onwards) (UK/P200PLA)
'Modernising Planning - A Policy Statement', (consultation paper) DETR Publications Dispatch Centre, London SE99, January 1998. (OFL).

Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions (DTLR) (June 2001-May 2002-);
DTLR Planning and Local Government functions in May 2002 transferred to the
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: http://www.odpm.gov.uk/

Elsworth-Sykes Planning, 1991, 'Planning - Is it a Service and How can it be Effective?', RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute), London.

Gilg, Andrew, 2004, 'Town and Country Planning in the UK: An Evaluative Introduction', Sage, London, ISBN 0 7619 4929 1 (cloth) / 0 7619 4930 5 (pb) (OFL on 9.9.03)

Le-Las, W, 1997, 'Understanding the Development Jigsaw: A User's Guide to Procedures', Chailey, East Sussex: Buccaneer Books (OFL)

Little, A.J, 2001, 'Planning Controls and their Enforcement', 7th edition, Shaw & Sons, Crayford, Kent. ISBN 0 7219 0494 7. (OFL on 4.7.01)

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: http://www.odpm.gov.uk/
(in May 2002 took over responsibilities for planning from the
Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions (DTLR) (June 2001-May 2002-);
- replaced in May 2006 by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
'Making The System Work Better - Planning at regional and local levels', July 2002, http://www.planning.odpm.gov.uk/consult/greenpap/makebett/index.htm
'Sustainable Communities - Delivering through Planning', July 2002,
http://www.planning.odpm.gov.uk/consult/greenpap/scdtp/index.htm

Royal Town Planning Institute, 1996, 'The Local Delivery of Planning Services: A Summary of the Commissioned Study', Commissioned by the RTPI from Spawforth Planning and Urban Regeneration Ltd., RTPI, London.

Thomas, K, 1997, 'Development Control: Principles and Practice', UCL Press, London ISBN 1 85728 626 X (Hb) / 1 85728 627 8 (pb). (GP5511.THO)

• Main Planning bibliographies Index
• Detailed Topic Index
• Effectiveness of Planning etc. Index