Enforcing planning regulations in areas of high immigration: a case study of London

Abstract

This paper explores the interface between immigration and compliance with planning regulations using data from interviews and a focus group with senior planning enforcement officers in London. The data reveals distinctive issues that arise for immigrants' compliance with planning regulations, specific types of residential, commercial and cultural breach that occur with immigration, and operational issues that arise when investigating and resolving planning breaches involving immigrant communities, including gender sensitivities and language barriers. The paper concludes that despite difficulty distinguishing immigration from ethnicity, faith or religious affiliation, there are important normative and principled aspects of i ig a ts compliance with planning regulations. .

Provincializing planning: Reflections on spatial ordering and imperial power

“…The distinction between Britain and Empire enables an erasure of racial questions from the repertoire and legacy of the discipline. Instead, racialized minorities in the UK continue to be viewed through the lens of immigrant settlers that require planning processes to 'integrate' them into some form of a spatial polity (see, for example, Harris, 2017). Critiques of the inadequacy of planning and housing to meet the needs of the post-war period have been left to historians generally writing outside the mainstream planning discipline.…”

Multiple land use planning for living places and investments spaces

“…After all, 'Noncompliance with planning and building laws occurs in most countries, not just in developing ones (though in different degrees and forms)' (Calor & Alterman, 2017, p. 208). Informality may have the scale of the Brazilian City of Belém where over half of the dwellings are in informal settlements (Pessoa, Tasan-Kok, & Korthals Altes, 2016), or may be restricted to illegitimate uses of recreational homes, residential subdivisions of houses in flats, rooms and beds for hire and beds in sheds (Calor & Alterman, 2017;Harris, 2017).…”