14.00 Contested Community how can we define and understand communities – – and what can we learn from this in relation to how the new planning framework will impact on all communities, but particularly those already marginalised. Communities are not homogenous, straightforward concepts, so when one is consulting ‘the of planning who is being consulted? If communities do not community’ as part – learn, do understand that they can be connected, let alone how () what can be done to educate communities? Gypsies and Travellers are marginalised (Powell) and () and often physically excluded from communities. There is a need to ‘othered’ ensure this in the research process and exclusion isn’t further compounded approaches which include Gypsies and Travellers in community research (Scullion) and a more general ethos of in research (Richardson) should be ‘co-production’ embraced as part of an attempt to better understand ‘community’. Lead Facilitator Jo Richardson (DMU) Key Discussants Professor Peter Somerville () Lisa Scullion () Ryan Powell (CRESR, Hallam) 15.30 TEA/COFFEE 16.00 Understanding conflict in planning a theoretical framing of the issue – – Planning can be seen as a process of communication and mediation (Forester and Laws). Conflict in planning can be seen to manifest particularly in consultation exercises and planning application responses for new Gypsy Traveller sites. But what can we learn from studies in planning both related to Gypsies and Travellers and in the wider planning context? Research on the use of to understand ‘ghetto’ the issues of marginalisation and segregation of sites (Powell) and on constructing ethnicity in the planning system (Beebeejaun) is useful to consider here. Also work examining the in Australia and tensions between Indigenous people’s rights, Canada, and the wider social and legal framework governing that space, referred to as and Porter) might provide useful parallels with the ‘the contact zone’ (Barry tensions in the English planning system for Gypsies and Travellers who remember rights to use common land, often bunded to deny access today. Lead Facilitator: Professor David Laws () Key Discussants: Yasminah Beebeejaun () Janice Barry () Ryan Powell (CRESR) Tim Brown (DMU) 5.30 END of day one
14.00 – Contested Community – how can we define and understand communities and what can we learn from this in relation to how the new planning framework will impact on all communities, but particularly those already marginalised. Communities are not homogenous, straightforward concepts, so when one is consulting ‘the community’ as part of planning – who is being consulted? If communities do not learn, do understand that they can be connected, let alone how () what can be done to educate communities? Gypsies and Travellers are marginalised (Powell) and ‘othered’ () and often physically excluded from communities. There is a need to ensure this exclusion isn’t further compounded in the research process and approaches which include Gypsies and Travellers in community research (Scullion) and a more general ethos of ‘co-production’ in research (Richardson) should be embraced as part of an attempt to better understand ‘community’. Lead Facilitator Jo Richardson (DMU) Key Discussants Professor Peter Somerville () Lisa Scullion () Ryan Powell (CRESR, Hallam) 15.30 TEA/COFFEE 16.00 – Understanding conflict in planning – a theoretical framing of the issue Planning can be seen as a process of communication and mediation (Forester and Laws). Conflict in planning can be seen to manifest particularly in consultation exercises and planning application responses for new Gypsy Traveller sites. But what can we learn from studies in planning both related to Gypsies and Travellers and in the wider planning context? Research on the use of ‘ghetto’ to understand the issues of marginalisation and segregation of sites (Powell) and on constructing ethnicity in the planning system (Beebeejaun) is useful to consider here. Also work examining the tensions between Indigenous people’s rights, in Australia and Canada, and the wider social and legal framework governing that space, referred to as ‘the contact zone’ (Barry and Porter) might provide useful parallels with the tensions in the English planning system for Gypsies and Travellers who remember rights to use common land, often bunded to deny access today. Lead Facilitator: Professor David Laws () Key Discussants: Yasminah Beebeejaun () Janice Barry () Ryan Powell (CRESR) Tim Brown (DMU) 5.30 END of day one