Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Academic study of planning divide in Haringey
The Community Planning Elites and Spatial Inequality paper presents an analysis of planning related community activism in the London Borough of Haringey drawn from a longitudinal study of planning, regeneration and the politics of community participation.
The paper identifies a strong contrast between the prosperous west of the borough and deprived localities to the east in relation to the nature, extent and effectiveness of activism. In the affluent west, organised networks of amenity and single issue groups forced levels of institutional accountability that contrasted with indifference by the local political elite to community views on planning issues in Tottenham and other deprived areas to the east of the borough.
In the west of the borough, the community groups achieved the status of consultees on planning issues, a status that complemented a formal structure of institutional consultation. The realpolitik, described by various community activists, planning officers and councillor interviewees, was that the Council treated west and east differently when it came to development proposals, the sale of council-owned land, the location of social housing and the protection of designated open space.
The paper should be relevant to those interested in regeneration, community development, activism, planning and local government as well as urban social polarization.
Professor Bryan Fanning is the Co-Director of the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative (MCRI) and a member of the School of Applied Social Research at University College Dublin.
Wednesday 3rd November 12.30 – 2.00 pm Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building
This is a joint seminar between the Human Geography cluster (Birkbeck) and BISR
Free and open to all - no registration
See - Community Planning Elites and Spatial Inequality
The paper identifies a strong contrast between the prosperous west of the borough and deprived localities to the east in relation to the nature, extent and effectiveness of activism. In the affluent west, organised networks of amenity and single issue groups forced levels of institutional accountability that contrasted with indifference by the local political elite to community views on planning issues in Tottenham and other deprived areas to the east of the borough.
In the west of the borough, the community groups achieved the status of consultees on planning issues, a status that complemented a formal structure of institutional consultation. The realpolitik, described by various community activists, planning officers and councillor interviewees, was that the Council treated west and east differently when it came to development proposals, the sale of council-owned land, the location of social housing and the protection of designated open space.
The paper should be relevant to those interested in regeneration, community development, activism, planning and local government as well as urban social polarization.
Professor Bryan Fanning is the Co-Director of the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative (MCRI) and a member of the School of Applied Social Research at University College Dublin.
Wednesday 3rd November 12.30 – 2.00 pm Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building
This is a joint seminar between the Human Geography cluster (Birkbeck) and BISR
Free and open to all - no registration
See - Community Planning Elites and Spatial Inequality
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Very interesting. Thanks for posting David.
Quite timely - spells out big obstacles for the Big Society.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I've stuck this seminar in my calendar and will try to get along, this really interests me. Great find.
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Permalink Reply by Susan Penny on
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Would be interesting to get a copy of this paper which is relevant to our experience in Tottenham.
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