Housing and Heritage in Local Plans

Planning for housing

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a classic ‘wicked problem’?

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Near-universal acknowledgement of a ‘housing crisis’:

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Different understandings of the problem

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Causation? Impacts? Mechanisms?

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Differences in stakeholder attitudes and interests

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Ideology, interests and practical experience?

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Constraints acting on the problem

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Huge local variation in broadly similar issue

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Interaction with other social, economic and environmental policy

areas

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Resources available to tackle the problem:

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Capacity in local authorities very low

Rittel, H.W. J. & Webber, M.M. (1973). "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning".

Policy Sciences

. 4: 155–169.