Introducing Planning and Environmental Law (BPLN0111)

This module will introduce students to the law of town and country planning, to its use as a tool of environmental management and to central issues relating to the statutory purpose of planning in achieving sustainable development. The module will consider what constitutes the body of planning law and environment law, focussed on the UK context, and the regulatory mechanisms used to manage and structure development and provide forward-looking plans and strategies. Practical issues of decision-making in planning, such as use of planning conditions and planning agreements will be considered alongside the role of environmental management techniques, environmental information access and public participation requirements and human rights legislation in shaping planning practice. Overall, the module will introduce students to the nature of planning as a quasilegal area of professional practice, and the role law and policy have in achieving sustainability.

This module, which is delivered through a mixture of lectures and small group seminars, aims to develop students&#039; critical thinking skills in the...

Critical Debates in International Planning (BPLN0040)

This module, which is delivered through a mixture of lectures and small group seminars, aims to develop students' critical thinking skills in the identification and assessment of emergent and dominant trends and issues in comparative urbanism and planning from a variety of international contexts. Theoretical, practical and ethical challenges and responses are examined through in-depth discussion of key readings.

The principal aim of the Infrastructure Policy, Planning and Consent module is to provide an understanding of policy, planning and consenting procedures for...

Infrastructure Policy, Planning and Consent (BPLN0028)

The principal aim of the Infrastructure Policy, Planning and Consent module is to provide an understanding of policy, planning and consenting procedures for infrastructure projects and programmes. The module also examines the key trends, issues and challenges that contribute to shaping planning practice, including globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation, austerity, devolution and multi-level governance, sustainable development and growing environmental concerns. While the focus of the module is on the UK infrastructure planning system and the main changes to the planning and consenting regime introduced by the Planning Act 2008, several other countries and contexts are also analysed and discussed.