ABSTRACT
This chapter draws together the major points arising from the foregoing three analytical engagements with neighbourhood planning and works through the implications of these theoretically, democratically and practically. Theoretically, it explores the impact of neighbourhood planning on place identity and attachment and discusses three related ways in which we might conceptualise the varied spatialities of neighbourhood planning - hybrid, liminal and chimerically unstable - which facilitate further interrogation of the relationship between neighbourhood and local planning. Democratically, the chapter engages with issues of legitimacy in neighbourhood planning, contributing both additional detail and a community perspective as a stimulus to further work in this direction. Practically, it reflects on the implications of the WSHWNP experience for the prospects for neighbourhood planning and proposes that both radical and more minor modifications to the process are required if neighbourhood planning is to be either effective or legitimate.
