*Celebrating Spatial Planning at TU Delft: 2008-2019. Edited by Stead, Bracken, Rooij & Rocco
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
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42 <strong>Sp<strong>at</strong>ial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> & Str<strong>at</strong>egy<br />
Review of European <strong>Planning</strong><br />
Systems (NHPAU)<br />
QU LEI<br />
Fig. 21: Cover of the report “Review of European <strong>Planning</strong> Systems”, available <strong>at</strong>: https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/<br />
In 2009, De Montfort University,<br />
Leicester, and <strong>Delft</strong> University<br />
of Technology were commissioned<br />
<strong>by</strong> the N<strong>at</strong>ional Housing<br />
and <strong>Planning</strong> Advice Unit (NHPAU)<br />
from the UK to review European<br />
planning systems. In the light of a<br />
low elasticity of housing supply in<br />
England, NHPAU wished to understand<br />
the role of planning systems<br />
in facilit<strong>at</strong>ing and constraining<br />
housing production in other<br />
European Union countries.<br />
In order to consider countries<br />
with a variety of planning systems<br />
and a range of recent housing<br />
production levels this study has<br />
examined planning and housing<br />
supply in France, Germany, Ireland,<br />
the Netherlands, and Spain.<br />
The research has addressed questions<br />
about how planning systems<br />
respond to changing market conditions;<br />
the costs and benefits for<br />
local authorities and developers<br />
in increasing residential development;<br />
land supply restraints and<br />
their impact on land and housing<br />
markets; payments for infrastructure;<br />
and factors other than planning<br />
th<strong>at</strong> influence house building.<br />
An underlying purpose of the<br />
research was to gain insights from<br />
other countries th<strong>at</strong> can inform<br />
policy and practice in England.<br />
There are two central research<br />
questions implicit in the brief<br />
which have guided the analysis:<br />
• Wh<strong>at</strong> explan<strong>at</strong>ions are available<br />
for vari<strong>at</strong>ions in housing output<br />
between countries?<br />
• How do vari<strong>at</strong>ions in planning<br />
systems influence housing production?<br />
The method applied had three<br />
stages: (1) D<strong>at</strong>a Review; (2) Country<br />
Reports; and (3) Synthesis of<br />
Findings.<br />
A wide range of sources were<br />
used to consider housing production<br />
levels since 1990 in their economic<br />
and demographic contexts.<br />
<strong>Planning</strong> and housebuilding in<br />
the selected countries were examined<br />
with the help of an expert<br />
from each country. The evidence<br />
assembled is summarised in the<br />
report.
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