Geographic Intelligence for Regional Planning

John Stillwell and Colin Winnett
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John Stillwell: University of Leeds
Colin Winnett: University of Leeds

Chapter 14 in Geographical Information and Planning, 1999, pp 263-282 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The regional tier of governance, administration and planning has gained increasingly in importance across western Europe, encouraged by political decentralisation within states and by the attempts of European institutions to enhance their policy-making capabilities and frameworks to deal with specific regional problems. In parallel, new demands have been made for more information about regions or localities and for more consistent, harmonised data that may be used as the basis for genuine comparative spatial analysis. However, variations exist in the structural frameworks, the procedures and the content of regional planning both between states and between regions within the same state. In the United Kingdom, the administrative systems in Scotland and Northern Ireland are different from those in the rest of the UK where there has always been a traditional polarisation of physical planning at local level and economic planning at national level. In England and Wales, this has resulted in an absence of regional planning authorities with any significant financial resources or administrative clout and a lack of statutory regional planning documents. The first part of this chapter contains a review of the regional planning context in England, and in the region of Yorkshire and Humberside in particular, at a time when regionalism is firmly back on the agenda.

Keywords: Regional Planning; Unitary Authority; Metadata Database; Regional Development Agency; Consistent Time Series (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-03954-0_14

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