Community strategies: Are they delivering joined up governance?

Law,; Percy-Smith, Janie; Wells, Peter

doi:10.1080/03003930601081457

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“…'The operational boundaries of different partners' can additionally work against joined-up local governance, and evidence can be drawn from Scotland which shows that where administrative boundaries of partners within a CPP differ from those of the local authority, this can cause delays in decision making and additional bureaucracy (Audit Scotland, 2006). Compounding such problems is 'a general absence of reference to spatial issues within the relevant community plans/strategies': a review of SCSs in England, for example, found few references to spatial issues -whether these related to the geography of the locality, economic development, transport or to development plans (Darlow et al, 2007a). A similar picture appears to emerge in Wales and Scotland and with 'planning officers rarely getting involved in community planning' in the former area (Williams et al, 2006: 87).…”

Section: Barriers To Effective Community Planning In the Uk -Consistementioning

confidence: 98%

Devolution, Community Planning and Institutional Decongestion?

Pemberton

Lloyd

2008

Local Government Studies

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Devolution in the UK has been in place for a decade. It was introduced in a differentiated manner with respect to executive, legislative and financial powers. It created opportunities for the devolved administrations to devise more appropriate governance arrangements to address their individual economic and social issues. In addressing inherited institutional and policy fragmentation and deficits, however, this has contributed to a 'congested state'. As a consequence interest has turned to devising initiatives to serve as a policy and institutional 'decongestant'. This paper examines what has taken place as the devolved administrations have attempted to develop their own agenda for change with respect to the introduction of 'community planning' (as a potential decongestant). It appears that whilst the agents and structures of relevance to community planning differ by the specificities of each devolved administration, in practice there has been a general lack of 'decongesting' to date. In turn, this implies that despite the potential for devising more customised approaches and 'policy learning' in each area, there are enduring difficulties for modern governance systems to secure the effective local delivery of public policy. It is suggested that more formalised arrangements may be required to support the development of a stronger and broader strategic framework for community planning -and its role as a decongestant therein.

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Section: Barriers To Effective Community Planning In the Uk -Consistementioning

confidence: 98%

Devolution, Community Planning and Institutional Decongestion?

Pemberton

Lloyd

2008

Local Government Studies

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“…Subsequently, UK central government renamed community strategies 'sustainable community strategies', to represent closer alignment with other spatial policy agendas on sustainability (see ODPM, 2003). The intention of the 'sustainable community strategy' was, therefore, to integrate social, economic and environmental priorities of sustainable development and improve quality of life, not only at the local level, but at all territorial scales (DEFRA, 2005, p. 127), demonstrating a 'joined-up' approach to combating the three pillars of sustainable development (Darlow et al, 2007).…”

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Local strategic partnerships: a panacea for voluntary interest groups to promote local environmental sustainability? The UK context

Kythreotis

2010

Sustainable Development

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This paper examines the experiences of local interest groups in promoting environmental sustainability within Local Strategic Partnerships. LSPs are expected to be a local pluralist governance platform in which non-state groups can engage more widely in the promotion of economic, social and environmental well-being within a local authority area. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews with state and non-state representatives in two contrasting LSP areas in the Yorkshire and Humber region of the UK, this paper finds that environmental interest groups have been marginalized by local state members of LSPs. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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“…Indeed it has been equally prominent in the policy agendas of incoming UK national governments since the 1990s, with all broadly discussing moving away from centralization and instead empowering local government or local communities (Darlow et al, 2007;Deas, 2013). However, the localism movement has been subject to changing fads, and the demands of short-term central government-driven policy goals (Kelly, 2007), leaving local government to exist within an ever shifting framework, shaped by top-down pressures. This conflict between national and local priorities is similarly long standing, with the Lyons review of local government in the UK criticizing the previous 30 years of local government reform as 'a series of well intentioned devolution initiatives which have often evolved into subtle instruments of [central] control' (Lyons, 2007, p. i).…”

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Bridging the Gap? The Role of Regional Governance in Delivering Effective Local Public Services: Evidence from England

Nurse¹

2015

Planning Practice & Research

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Between 2004 and 2010 local area agreements (LAAs) represented a key part of the New Labour Government's agenda for local government in England, which centred on increasing the level of involvement that local areas had in the issues affecting them. To deliver this agenda, New Labour deployed government offices for the regions (GOR) to negotiate with localities on behalf of central government. As part of a broader consideration of the role of regional governance structures in delivering local public services, this paper draws upon the results of a national survey of LAA practitioners in England, and findings from more detailed case study work, to consider the role of GOR in the LAA process. These findings examine the role GOR played in negotiating LAA targets and the extent to which these negotiations allowed local areas to respond to local issues and priorities. Then, by considering local enterprise partnerships and the recently established combined authorities, the paper will consider how localism policy under the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition government, who came to power in 2010, has responded to the lessons of the LAA. In doing so, the paper seeks to fit into the wider discussion about how local public services can be delivered effectively and draw out the challenges faced by those trying to link local and central policy together

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Community strategies: Are they delivering joined up governance?

Cited by 15 publications

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Devolution, Community Planning and Institutional Decongestion?

Devolution, Community Planning and Institutional Decongestion?

Local strategic partnerships: a panacea for voluntary interest groups to promote local environmental sustainability? The UK context

Bridging the Gap? The Role of Regional Governance in Delivering Effective Local Public Services: Evidence from England

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