Spatial planning's role in delivery within a wider governance framework is finally emerging since the commitment was made to its introduction in the UK ten years ago. The New Spatial Planning provides a record of some of the challenges that this introduction has faced, and was, at the time of the research on which the book was based, very much uncompleted business. The book divides neatly into two parts to meet twin objectives. The first includes three chapters dealing with a general introduction to the position and progress of spatial planning in the UK based on the authors' experience through a research project 2005-2008. The second, and more useful part of the book, sets out the findings of this research through what is being delivered by spatial planning in different jurisdictions and scales in the UK. In addition, the book sets two further objectives which are to review the role of spatiality in wider policy making and to assess what devolution has delivered in and through spatial planning, although there is little subsequent discussion of either of these in the text.
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