Developing Britain's Port Infrastructure: Markets, Policy, and Location

Asteris, Michael; Collins, Alan

doi:10.1068/a38400

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“…These changes have brought about two different but interconnected phenomena. These are, on one hand, the growth of ports, with terminals being relocated to more peripheral sites in order to comply with the present-day standards related to vessel size and land access [1], on the other, the restoration of urban coastal areas, which had become obsolete and disused, through installing modern cargo handling equipment [16] and a demand for the revitalization of the natural environment [11].…”

Section: A Picture Of Mutual Relations Between Port Cities and Portsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sea port as an element of a city sustainability based on city-port of Gdańsk

2018

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Cities and ports are elements of the socio-economic space of coastal regions and they are integrally interrelated with each other while their development is mutually conditioned. Cooperation of the port and the city usually would bring development of both these elements in the historical perspective. The seaport has always grown and developed along with the city and the region. On the one hand, a port-city performs functions related to maritime economy in the broad sense of the word, i.e. maritime functions, and on the other hand - land functions that result from the city's location in relation to its land base. When the maritime function is overwhelming, the port has a powerful impact on the city, its spatial and economic layout. The very nature of the port has a significant impact on shaping the face of the city and the region. Contemporary cities are currently facing many various problems resulting from their rapid development: debt, commercialization of the public space, degradation of the infrastructure, deteriorating quality of public services, or excessive and inefficient consumption. Since the time concept of sustainable development came into being, it has been adopted as the basis for all activities at various levels of territorial organization, including at the city level. Nonetheless, each tier of development planning has its own specificity, similarly to individual territorial units within a specific tier. This is related but not limited to cities, particularly port-cities, in respect of which sustainable development should be understood a little differently than in other cities, due to the complexity of their relationships and the special role that they play in the economic system. The aim of this article is to indicate such a way of understanding the sustainable development that refers to the specificity of a port-city. Ports and cities interact across many dimensions, however, a more detailed insight how port-cities integrate the port and urban functions is still lacking. The survey conducted among city representatives, businesses and port authorities is to help identify the directions of activities for sustainable development and indicate the common grounds of these activities, where both parties could support each other.

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Section: A Picture Of Mutual Relations Between Port Cities and Portsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sea port as an element of a city sustainability based on city-port of Gdańsk

2018

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“…The previous planning process, which in many cases entailed lengthy inquiries, received heavy criticism (e.g. Asteris and Collins, 2007), yet Southampton's Dibden Bay development remains the only major scheme to have been rejected.…”

Section: Policy and Planning For Uk Portsmentioning

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Port governance in the UK: Planning without policy

Monios

2017

Research in Transportation Business & Management

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The UK's highly privatised port system means that, while many of the issues in the port governance literature relevant to port concessions do not arise here, the respective roles of harbour authorities and port operators continue to be questioned. The concern in the UK is whose role it should be to monitor the capacity and service quality of the port sector, including how to govern the ways in which the different classes of port stakeholder interact. This paper describes and discusses the UK port sector, the main ports and cargo types, the governance system and recent developments. Recent changes in national policy are reviewed and potential new developments in governance are considered, reflecting on how the UK case represents some key theoretical considerations regarding infrastructure governance within a modern political system favouring private ownership and operation of the transport sector.

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“…In recent years this has led to a rejection of a container port proposal at Dibden Bay, Southampton, in comparison to which the London Gateway proposal looks to some observers to be 'suboptimal,' (Asteris andCollins, 2007, p. 2280) as it would require shipping heading for the major ports on mainland Europe to make a detour.…”

Section: The London Gateway Portmentioning

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Markets, Large Projects and Sustainable Development: Traditional and New Planning in the Thames Gateway

Greenwood

Newman

2009

Urban Studies

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The transition from traditional hierarchical government to new forms of governance and planning can be overstated. The regionalisation of planning and new ambitions for spatial planning in the UK are commonly understood to have created an overcomplex system concerned with co-ordination and integration across jurisdictional spheres. However, this new governance of planning sits alongside traditional planning processes such as the public inquiry and ministerial decision. This case study of a large port development near London suggests that the emphasis upon the move to new, collaborative practices understimates the influence of traditional governmental structures. This provides cause for questioning the capacity of the current planning system to address the challenge of sustainable development, a central concern for the new planning.

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Developing Britain's Port Infrastructure: Markets, Policy, and Location

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Sea port as an element of a city sustainability based on city-port of Gdańsk

Sea port as an element of a city sustainability based on city-port of Gdańsk

Port governance in the UK: Planning without policy

Markets, Large Projects and Sustainable Development: Traditional and New Planning in the Thames Gateway

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