CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Ahsan, Reazul |
|---|---|
| Title | Social equity and Sustainability for the immigrant communities in the UK planning system: A Study on South Asian immigrants |
| Summary | The concomitant global economy minimizes the world’s boundary and opens the international borders for the immigrants to get better life and economic solvency. Not only the better employment opportunities, rather global political unrest, better social security and recently added the climate changing process also act as push factors to increase the international migration especially from the developing to the developed nations. On the contemporary the modern planning system are straggling hard to achieve the goal of sustainable development, where the development process can introduce a sustainable, innovative and productive economy with equal employment opportunities, promotes the social inclusion issues, like housing, education, health for the present generation and the future. In the year 2007 about 422,100 foreign workers around the world migrate to the UK, among them 145,000 (34%) are from Asian countries mainly India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Those migrant communities are the part of the current planning system and they required all the services and facilities that are promised to be provided to all the citizens to the UK under the current planning policy. The Planning Policy Statement (PPS1), sets a clear overarching of the UK current planning policy to ensure sustainability. Furthermore the White Paper and the Local Development Framework (LDF) have a clear statement and policy approaches for the city councils and the planning authorities to ensure equity at the local level and to incorporator the community at the planning and decision making system. Therefore a field based study has conducted both in Manchester and Trafford City Councils, where a large number for residents are South Asian immigrant communities as well as two of the councils have long term social equity strategic plan for their community members. The aim of the study is to identify how the city councils are working to ensure equity and what are the limitations, at the same time assess the respondents’ opinion to get their views as a resident and receive and consume the service facilities provided under the current planning system to meet the goal of sustainability. |
| Supervisor | Dr. Mark Baker, The University of Manchester |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/ahsan_reazul.pdf |
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