An early reading of English planning reform under Starmer’s Labour government

Dave Valler and Nicholas A. Phelps

Planning Practice & Research, 2025, vol. 40, issue 1, 198-213

Abstract: This paper provides a tentative reading of proposed English planning reform under the Labour government elected in July 2024. Key aspects of the agenda are reviewed, together with the proposed extension of an ongoing devolution and decentralisation programme. Labour’s reforms are characterised as the leading-edge of a generally cautious ‘new state capitalism’. Though there are similarities with previous ‘roll-out neoliberal’ arrangements under the New Labour governments from 1997 to 2010, the altered political-economic context will likely reinforce some distinctiveness in terms of the meaning and implementation of reform.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2024.2415793

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