English local planning authorities and design appeals: Perceptions and realities

• Autores: John Punter, Andrew Bell
• Localización: Journal of urban design, ISSN 1357-4809, ISSN-e 1469-9664, Nº. 4, 1, 1999, págs. 67-95
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper examines the differential design appeal records of English local planning authorities over 1994 and 1995. It generates a series of hypotheses to explain appeal incidence and dismissal rates, and tests these with aggregate appeals data. Then, using disaggregated data and interviews with planning officers, it explores the various factors which influence appeal incidence and dismissal rates, through detailed analysis of 24 local planning authorities. The individuality of LPA practices makes it difficult to draw hard and fast conclusions, but the importance of clearly demonstrating harm in the original reasons for refusal, of the quality and coherence of the context and of relevant policy quality and its status are all identified as important to LPA ability to defend design appeals.