The Politics of Transition

This book explores the impact of recent planning reforms on emergent, alternative models of local governance. It uses the pioneering approach of Frome in Somerset, UK to showcase development and governance alternatives in a post-Brexit landscape. It investigates the role of planning in contributing to sustainable development under localism, and examines how key actors have used the Neighbourhood Planning process to put forward niche, community-based development futures. In doing so, the book offers valuable methodological, empirical and theoretical contributions to wider debates concerning transition, placemaking, local politics and planning. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy and governance. Amy Burnett is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University Business School, UK, and a member of the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) network. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the role of civil society groups, social enterprises and networks in promoting innovative and sustainable development in the context of planning and regeneration, policy influence and organisational design.