Co-authored by 'Planning for Nature' team members Dr Andy Inch and Prof Malcolm Tait, The Future for Planners was awarded the Royal Town Planning Institute's Patsy Healey Award. 

The book emerged from our ESRC 'Working in the Public Interest' project and sought to provide an account of contemporary planning practice in the UK. In particular, the publication sheds light on neoliberal shifts in planning, including how greater commercialisation and privatisation were shaping professional practice.

Prof Tait said: 'We are very pleased that The Future for Planners won the Patsy Healey award. In the book we sought to understand the changing contexts in which planning is done, and we are seeking to continue this in the Planning for Nature project. 

Renewed emphases on economic growth, and a rapidly changing policy environment are changing the ways in which nature is considered in planning, requiring us to step back and look at the bigger picture to apply these learnings to projects such as 'Planning for Nature'".