The local impacts of sex industry premises: Imagination, reality and implications for planning

Searle, GH; Boydell, S; Crofts, P; Hubbard, P; Prior, JH

The local impacts of sex industry premises: Imagination, reality and implications for planning

Searle, GH Boydell, S Crofts, P

Hubbard, P Prior, JH

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Publisher:: Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN)
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Proceedings of the World Planning Schools Congress 2011, 2011
Issue Date:: 2011-01

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dc.contributor.author	Searle, GH	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Boydell, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Crofts, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6018-7159	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Hubbard, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Prior, JH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6145-5207	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Maginn, P	en_US
dc.date	2011-07-04	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the World Planning Schools Congress 2011, 2011	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/29669
dc.description.abstract	This paper uses survey data to investigate the community impacts of relatively liberal planning regulation of sex industry premises that has been instituted in Sydney. In this, it explores the contested relationship between community attitudes to sex premises, planning controls over such premises, and real world impacts arising from the application of these controls. The paper first looks at how the range of planning impacts from sex industry premises that were perceived in the past have framed the construction of present planning controls to regulate the sex industry in two Sydney local government areas (one inner and one middle). Survey perceptions of a sample of current residents and commercial firms located close to sex industry premises about possible impacts, as well as perceptions of sex premises in general, are described. The scope of impacts and perceptions measured draws on a range of research from legal studies, property and planning studies, and sociology. The findings are set against the operative planning controls and the assumptions and desired outcomes inherent in them in order to evaluate the appropriateness of the controls. The paper concludes with suggestions for amendments to controls that more closely reflect community perceptions of actual sex industry impacts rather than perceptions of assumed impacts, and reflections on the nature of the intersection of community attitudes to sex premises, planning controls, and the ensuing level and type of actual community impacts.	en_US
dc.publisher	Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the World Planning Schools Congress 2011	en_US
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dc.title	The local impacts of sex industry premises: Imagination, reality and implications for planning	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location	University of Western Australia, Perth	en_US
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Abstract:

This paper uses survey data to investigate the community impacts of relatively liberal planning regulation of sex industry premises that has been instituted in Sydney. In this, it explores the contested relationship between community attitudes to sex premises, planning controls over such premises, and real world impacts arising from the application of these controls. The paper first looks at how the range of planning impacts from sex industry premises that were perceived in the past have framed the construction of present planning controls to regulate the sex industry in two Sydney local government areas (one inner and one middle). Survey perceptions of a sample of current residents and commercial firms located close to sex industry premises about possible impacts, as well as perceptions of sex premises in general, are described. The scope of impacts and perceptions measured draws on a range of research from legal studies, property and planning studies, and sociology. The findings are set against the operative planning controls and the assumptions and desired outcomes inherent in them in order to evaluate the appropriateness of the controls. The paper concludes with suggestions for amendments to controls that more closely reflect community perceptions of actual sex industry impacts rather than perceptions of assumed impacts, and reflections on the nature of the intersection of community attitudes to sex premises, planning controls, and the ensuing level and type of actual community impacts.

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