Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on the authors and contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Why is redesign of public policy needed?
- Chapter One Possibilities for policy design
- Chapter Two Conventional policy design
- Chapter Three Co-productive policy design
- Section One Challenges and change within conventional policy design
- Section Two Vision in co-productive policy design
- Section Three Grammar in co-productive policy design
- Chapter Four Debating co-productive policy design
- Chapter Five Governance for co-productive policy designs
- Epilogue Co-producing research
- References
- Index
Challenges in policy redesign
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on the authors and contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Why is redesign of public policy needed?
- Chapter One Possibilities for policy design
- Chapter Two Conventional policy design
- Chapter Three Co-productive policy design
- Section One Challenges and change within conventional policy design
- Section Two Vision in co-productive policy design
- Section Three Grammar in co-productive policy design
- Chapter Four Debating co-productive policy design
- Chapter Five Governance for co-productive policy designs
- Epilogue Co-producing research
- References
- Index
Summary
Writing as an officer for an English local government organisation, this author explores the policy-making challenges of urban planning and housing to accommodate growing populations in a context of argued land shortages, growing expectations and more diverse communities. It presents serious challenges on the feasibility and implementation of ideas of co-productive policy making where there is neither consensus nor respect for pluralism. As the contribution makes painfully clear, the nature of the challenge is partly about whether opening up policy to the public is consistent with social justice and other strategic concerns.
The contribution is based on hard-bitten experience in one city of attempts to have an informed conversation about the use of land and provision of housing across the whole area, and across many different population groups. York is at once a very special case, as a historic city and world tourist destination, but also illustrative of many other cases. There are similar debates in other places, over other scarce or contested resources, and in other policy fields. Paul McCabe documents the city's many, and often fraught, experiences of asking citizens to think about growth, and being rejected. Undaunted, he outlines new efforts to create a sense of shared vision and common purpose between policy makers and hundreds of thousands of citizens.
Policy makers and politicians of all shades recognise the urgent need to plan strategically for the accommodation needs of new and growing populations, including the needs of vulnerable and marginalised groups. The UK government, in its 2011 national housing strategy for England, set out plans for a significant upturn in housing supply, in response to projected growth of 232,000 households per year up to 2033. For decades, the UK has seen a growing gap between housing demand and supply, fuelling what is now widely regarded as a national housing crisis. Most know that the provision of good quality housing in sustainable communities is a key enabler of economic growth and underpins a range of other outcomes such as improved health and wellbeing. Despite this, existing communities have often reacted negatively to proposals for growth and real tensions can emerge between strategic goals and the concerns people have about new development.
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- Designing Public Policy for Co-productionTheory, Practice and Change, pp. 63 - 70Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2015