Planning at the University of Liverpool

The changing tracks of land value capture in constrained policy contexts; A comparison of London’s Crossrail and Grand Paris Express Land value capture is often vaunted as having significant potential to fund public infrastructure, including mega transport projects like urban metro …

New open access publication of mine looking at how land value capture instruments support mega-transport projects focusing on Crossrail and GPE in Paris. We find these instruments can be used in different ways are an important part of wider funding packages.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

06.06.2025 11:17 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Does social media influence local elected leaders? A study of online engagement methods through the lens of cycling policymaking in the United Kingdom Social media can be sold as a way to improve grassroots citizen engagement, yet the ways in which it affects decisions made by local elected leaders are less well understood. This study examines th...

🚨New paper 🚨 I asked senior councillors with highways/transport responsibility across the UK how social media interactions affected their decision making on cycling.

🧵The core findings were:

1) That social media doesn't massively alter decision-making

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

29.05.2025 14:14 — 👍 32    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 7

A view of the Liverpool skyline on a snowy misty day.

What a view from the Roxby Building this morning.

10.01.2025 08:48 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Brilliant to see our Team engaging with Government at the highest level!

17.12.2024 09:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well done to all our graduates!

11.12.2024 09:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Talking about Regeneration – some reflections on 50 years of policy in England This chapter reflects on nearly half a century of urban regeneration policy in England. It begins by discussing the genesis of regeneration policy in the ‘urban crisis’ of the 1970s and 19...

At a time when local government funding and planning in England under a new government is in the news, this new chapter with @alexnurse.bsky.social, Sebastian Dembski, and Chris Couch takes a 'long view' on nearly half a century of regeneration policy in England.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

04.12.2024 00:31 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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New paper with @oliviersykes.bsky.social on what Labour's early actions on Levelling Up tell us about the direction of travel for English Governance and devo.

@livuniplanning.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

18.11.2024 08:24 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Hello. Although we're the world's oldest planning school, we're new here!

We'd appreciate any help in getting us on our feet.

16.11.2024 12:40 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0