Practice forum Planning and Community-led Development in Northern Rural Ireland

Murray, Michael; Greer, John

doi:10.1080/02697459716400

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“…This represents a considerable challenge for the planning profession. However, as Murray & Greer (1997) suggest, it is a challenge that can also be viewed as an opportunity to engage in a more interactive style of statutory plan-making partnerships with rural communities, linked to interest group mediation and the building of trust-relations. While rural development initiatives have increasingly been advanced in partnership with rural communities involving a power shift towards community action and bottom-up processes, land-use planning and housing allocation in rural areas is primarily characterised as top-down and procedural.…”

Section: Housing Rural Communities 771mentioning

confidence: 98%

Housing Rural Communities: Connecting Rural Dwellings to Rural Development in Ireland

Scott

Murray

2009

Housing Studies

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This paper explores the interaction between rural development policy and planning policies for rural housing within the context of Ireland. Drawing on an interpretive approach to policy analysis, the paper examines competing narratives of 'the rural' within the policy arena that underpin a fragmented approach to rural sustainable development. The evidence points to a disconnection between these spheres of public policy marked by a strained relationship between rural communities and regulatory planning, not least with regard to the preferred shape of the rural settlement pattern. It is argued that any housing policy for rural areas must give full regard to the social, economic and cultural attributes of rural life and not just the criteria of environment and landscape. In this context, partnership based local planning processes would enable the exploration of competing rural narratives to be re-orientated towards local needs, capacities and the perspectives of local people and the adoption of cultural, environmental and community values within the policy process.

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Section: Housing Rural Communities 771mentioning

confidence: 98%