The planning process is supposed to be entirely public and transparent.
It’s not.
Its current opacity is its own flaw which can be turned into a sharing opportunity.
A turning point in the planning process in terms of regeneration is the undisclosed negotiations between councils and developers following the planning permission.
These negotiations are currently being used by developers and housing associations to implement luxury developement under the guise of regeneration schemes, with the involvment of consultant firms and architects.
Can these documents be disclosed, be part of the public debate about the future of London? Can viability criteria be discussed openly and replaced by unusually valued and unquantifiable criteria such as livability, or sharing
