England's turn to localism and planning at a 'Neighborhood Scale'

The article examines the 'localization' responsibilities of territorial planning in England and the evolution of a new level of scale community planning the so called 'Neighborhood planning' (NP), showing that the path of 'localism' where NP is collocated has evolved in some local government reforms promulgated during the years of the labourist government (1997-2010) and that also the NP is, in many ways, a logic extension of local experiences in terms of evaluation and planning of the community mainly in the rural areas. The article retraces the development of the neighborhood planning in its actual form inside the regulatory framework before examining briefly its potential in granting interventions and solving conflicts in the local planning