TY - JOUR
T1 - Devolution, decentralization and dispersal
T2 - asserting the spatiality of the public sector in Scotland
AU - Lloyd, M. Greg
AU - Peel, Deborah
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Through a case study of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), a Non-Departmental Public Body in Scotland, this article considers the arguments associated with changes in public sector location in the UK in the wider context of devolution and decentralization. The policy issues of location and relocation are discussed in light of the wider government interest in modernization, spatial planning and regional development. The case study illustrates an active concern in Scotland with the decentralization of decision-making, and a move to community planning. Notwithstanding the perceived benefits of the government's policy objectives, however, the relocation process, in this instance, has proved to be difficult and protracted in practice, illustrating many of the tensions in a policy which seeks to deliver different and layered policy objectives.
AB - Through a case study of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), a Non-Departmental Public Body in Scotland, this article considers the arguments associated with changes in public sector location in the UK in the wider context of devolution and decentralization. The policy issues of location and relocation are discussed in light of the wider government interest in modernization, spatial planning and regional development. The case study illustrates an active concern in Scotland with the decentralization of decision-making, and a move to community planning. Notwithstanding the perceived benefits of the government's policy objectives, however, the relocation process, in this instance, has proved to be difficult and protracted in practice, illustrating many of the tensions in a policy which seeks to deliver different and layered policy objectives.
KW - GOVERNMENT
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33744931143&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09654310500496180
DO - 10.1080/09654310500496180
M3 - Article
SN - 0965-4313
VL - 14
SP - 831
EP - 854
JO - European Planning Studies
JF - European Planning Studies
IS - 6
ER -