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CARING FOR PLACE This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey’s personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working. Throughout the book, Healey assesses the public value generated by community initiatives and the impact of such activity on wider governance dynamics. H ealey explores the power which small communities are able to mobilise through self-organisation and grassroots activism. Through the lens of Wooler and Glendale as a micro-society, the book centres on a community experiencing an economic and demographic transition. It focuses on three initiatives developed and led by local people – a small community development trust, an informal attention- mobilising network, and a Neighbourhood Plan project which uses an opportunity provided within the formal planning system. It examines how, in such civil society activism, people came together to promote local development in a place and community neglected by the dominant political economy. The book details the power and force of community initiative and its potential for transforming both the future possibilities for the place and community itself, as well as wider governance relations. Overall, it seeks to enrich academic and policy discussion about how the relations between formal government and civil society energy could evolve in more productive and progressive directions. Patsy Healey is a retired planning professor who has recently been involved in community development activity in the rural area where she lives. She is well known in planning academia and she is still connected to the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University, United Kingdom. The RTPI Library Series Editors: Akira Drake Rodriguez, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London Belinda Yuen, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design Published by Routledge in conjunction with The Royal Town Planning Insti- tute, this series of leading-edge texts looks at all aspects of spatial planning the- ory and practice from a comparative and international perspective. P ublic Norms and Aspirations The Turn to Institutions in Action W illem Salet P lanning, Law and Economics The Rules We Make for Using Land, second edition B arrie Needham, Edwin Buitelaar and Thomas Hartmann A Future for Planning Taking Responsibility for Twenty-First Century Challenges Michael Harris Digital Participatory Planning Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design Alexander Wilson and Mark Tewdwr-Jones Planning and the Common Good Mick Lennon Caring for Place Community Development in Rural England Patsy Healey For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ RTPI-Library-Series/book-series/RTPI CARING FOR PLACE Community Development in Rural England Patsy Healey C over image: Jim Bird First published 2023 by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 and by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 Patsy Healey The right of Patsy Healey to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Healey, Patsy, author. Title: Caring for place : community development in rural England / Patsy Healey. Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022003562 (print) | LCCN 2022003563 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367632038 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367632014 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003112501 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: City planning—Great Britain. | Rural development— Great Britain. Classification: LCC HT169.G7 H428 2022 (print) | LCC HT169.G7 (ebook) | DDC 307.1/2120941—dc23/eng/20220128 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022003562 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022003563 ISBN: 978-0-367-63203-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-63201-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-11250-1 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003112501 Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC To my neighbours in our place-community CONTENTS List of figures, tables and boxes ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xiv 1 Civil society caring for place futures 1 2 Caring for place: three initiatives in an English rural area 19 3 Placing Wooler and Glendale: where and what is ‘here’? 44 4 Experiencing community – asserting community 63 5 Engaging with the agency world 83 6 Power relations: navigating in a dynamic forcefield 120 7 Framing the future: knowledge and narrative in Wooler and Glendale 143 8 Creating public value through civil society activism 166 viii Contents 9 Can we shape our future? The transformative potential of civil society initiative 188 10 Epilogue: our locality in lockdown 208 I ndex 219 FIGURES, TABLES AND BOXES Figures 2.1 The North Northumberland area 22 3 .1 Integrating dimensions of life for young people in Glendale 52 4 .1 A word map of Wooler’s assets 64 4 .2 Transforming a derelict site into a distillery: a local landowner initiative 75 5 .1 Who has a stake in Wooler and its future? 90 5 .2 The MICROPOL pods 92 6 .1 Five lines of tension for probing power dynamics 127 6.2 The Old Co-Op building, enhanced with an attractive poster 130 1 0.1 The writing on the wall 215 Tables 2.1 Trustees of Glendale Gateway Trust, 1996 and 2019 28 2.2 The three initiatives compared 39 5.1 Non-governmental agencies and networks with presence in Wooler/Glendale 87 5.2 Statutory stakeholders for the Wooler Neighbourhood Plan 100 7.1 Narratives of local development in Wooler/Glendale 148 8.1 ‘Public value’ created by the three initiatives 178 Boxes 1.1 Our unknown neighbours 6 1.2 Wooler Neighbourhood Plan Vision Statement 9

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