ABSTRACT
The past four decades have seen a substantial fluctuation in the fortunes of town and country planning in the United Kingdom, as many of the assumptions which underpinned it and the expectations of the system came under growing scrutiny. Where in the 1950s and 1960s planning was centrally involved in building the ‘new Jerusalem’, from the late 1970s through to the early 1990s its scope was radically narrowed down towards more of a land use function (Healey 1998), with its regulatory direction reoriented to a presumption in favour of development.
