Emergent practices of localism: the role and response of local planning authorities to neighbourhood planning in England

This paper examines the practices of localism that are emerging in local planning authorities’ (LPAs) responses to neighbourhood (NP) England. It argues a lack coherence within agenda has enabled LPAs rearticulate and resignify key concepts, with three discernible NP emerging: deflective, reactive integrative. The have critical role process employ range technologies government govern conduct groups shaped largely around afforded their plan.