'Regions Out-Sub-regions In'-Can Sub-regional Planning Break the Mould? The View from England

Janice Morphet and Simon Pemberton

Planning Practice & Research, 2013, vol. 28, issue 4, 384-399

Abstract: A number of fundamental concerns have been raised over the recent abolition of regional economic and planning institutions processes and associated plans and strategies in England. In particular, questions have arisen over the strength and democratic accountability of the new arrangements emerging at a sub-regional scale-namely local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) that as yet have neither legal powers nor any formal planning role. Consequently, this article critically assesses the role, provenance and value of the abolished regional institutions together with the parallel criticisms. It also examines the potential for LEPs as their replacement and to develop into democratically accountable, locally self-determined strategic planning bodies.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2013.767670

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