ABSTRACT
British land-use planning seems to have displayed a remarkable resurgence of activity at the local level in the 1990s. While this must have surprised those who foretold the death of planning by the end of the 1980s, many observers and practitioners (for instance, Healey and Shaw 1993; Marshall 1994; Owens 1994; Brindley et al. 1996) have suggested that it is the grasping of the environment as an issue which has generated this activity, and rescued planning from the intellectual and professional doldrums of the 1980s.
