ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the nature of some challenges and reflects on the efforts made to plan and manage the associated impacts. It also examines the performance of planning, both 'land-use planning' and 'spatial planning'; considers the role of local actors in guiding policy and development; and considers how development has affected the practical and perceptual qualities of places. This involves examining the experiences of a number of localities, some through examining past experiences of development, others through their experiences of preparing a Neighbourhood Plan. Section 106 has long proved contentious and the growth in its use in the 1980s/90s led ultimately to the introduction in 2010 of a community infrastructure levy (CIL) to formalise and add more certainty to the process of gathering contributions towards the cost of infrastructure necessary to support new development. The chapter focuses on two case-study towns, East Anglia: Downham Market and Wymondham.
