Social dramas and planning judgement

Abstract

Social dramas and planning judgementIn this article we discuss the situated nature of planning judgement. Rather than focusing on its ethical content we use an ethnographic study of performances present in the hearings into the application to expand the A303, a road running south of Stonehenge, to interpret the connection of planning judgement both to the immediate context of the recommendation to withhold consent for a large disruptive infrastructure project in an already contested highly valued historic landscape and the broader context of the responsibilities decisions on road infrastructure have towards future generations.