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RE2PI-Planning Implementation

Module Provider: Real Estate and Planning
Number of credits: 20 [10ECTS credits]
Terms in which taught: Autumn and Spring
Module Convenor: Mr AJ Doak
Pre-requisites: RE1PLP
Co-requisites: RE2PPS
Modules excluded:
Module version for: 2008/9

Email: a.j.doak@reading.ac.uk

Aims:
This module provides students with a critical understanding of the planning powers, resources and special organisational devices used to regulate, mediate and facilitate the management and development of land. It grounds the historical and policy overview of planning provided in Planning Policy (RE1PLP) and discusses the successes and failures of planning policy implementation in urban and rural settings.

Assessable learning outcomes:
By the end of the module you should be able to:

  • Critically evaluate the role of planning intervention in private sector land management and development processes;
  • Identify the nature, use and strengths and weaknesses of the various implementation tools used to implement planning policies;
  • Evaluate the distributional impacts of planning intervention;
  • Analyse policy implementation using case study material;
  • Prepare a 'plain-English' report for a client; and
  • Contribute to brainstorming exercises to develop ideas and take-part in formal debates to discuss and arbitrate between conflicting perspectives.

    Additional outcomes:
    The module also aims to develop Web-based learning skills. The seminars, which involve brainstorming and debating exercises, will develop students oral and presentation skills.

    Outline content:
    The content is organised in two major blocks. The first block analyses the major 'implementation tools' used by planning authorities to intervene in and structure the private sector development process. The second block evaluates these tools as they are used to implement specific planning policy objectives in urban and rural areas. These blocks are top and tailed with introductory sessions on the nature of implementation and a concluding session which considers the balance sheet of successes and failures of planning intervention in relation to the development process.
    The module will review:

  • The relationship between planning policy, implementation and development processes;
  • The role of various 'implementation tools', such as policy guidance, development control, partnership, planning agreements, grants and land assembly;
  • The implementation of selected planning policies, such as urban design, town centre management, rural regeneration, landscape protection, brownfield development, major infrastructure projects, and economic development; and
  • The successes and failures of planning intervention.

    Brief description of teaching and learning methods:
    The module will be delivered through a one-hour lecture each week and a limited number (x4) of task-orientated seminars which would involve preparatory reading in order to brain-storm and debate key ideas and issues arising from the lectures. The lectures will be supported by Web-based teaching and learning materials.

    Contact hours:

      Autumn Spring Summer
    Lectures 10 10 2
    Tutorials/seminars 2  2   
    Practicals      
    Other contact (eg study visits)      
    Total hours 12  12  2 
    Number of essays or assignments 1     
    Other (eg major seminar paper) 2 seminar contributions  2 seminar contributions   

    Assessment:
    Coursework:
    Students would undertake coursework that will include a 3-sided 'plain-English' report evaluating the 'implementation' implications of a selected Government document.
    Relative percentage of coursework: 40% of module total
    Examinations:
    One two-hour end of module exam (60%)
    Requirements for a pass:
    An overall mark of 40%
    Reassessment arrangements:
    Re-examination by three-hour paper in August/September (100%).

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