The English planning system is in crisis, argue the authors of this provocative new book. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, Kate Henderson and Hugh Ellis provide a comprehensive analysis of these reforms, assessing the implications and significance for the future. They highlight why planning is so essential to quality of life and set out 10 evidence-based steps to rebuild the planning system in England. Drawing on policy and practice examples from across the UK and internationally, the book is a manifesto for change. It provides a direct and vigorous challenge to the current structure and policy of planning that should ignite a debate about the values that shape its future.

Hugh Ellis is Head of Policy at the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and Honorary Professor at the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen's University Belfast. Prior to joining the TCPA he had been the senior planning advisor to Friends of the Earth and previously worked as a lecturer in the University of Sheffield planning school. Kate Henderson is Chief Executive of the TCPA and a visiting professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. At the TCPA, Britain's oldest charity concerned with planning, housing and the environment, Kate leads the Association's efforts to shape and advocate planning policies that put social justice and the environment at the heart of the debate.