Introduction: Research summary: sustainability transitions in times of uncertaintly -- 1: Transition and the New Economy: a global movement for relocalisation and the Commons -- 2: Planning Beyond the Mainstream -- 3: Placemaking – identity and sustainabilty transitions in a planning context -- 4: Localism and Neighbourhood Planning – tools of placemaking transitions? -- 5: Findings: Frome – context to ‘The Home of Localism’ -- 6: Discussion: planning for transition in a post-Brexit political landscape.

This book explores the impact of recent planning reforms on emergent, alternative models of local governance. It uses the pioneering approach of Frome in Somerset, UK to showcase development and governance alternatives in a post-Brexit landscape. It investigates the role of planning in contributing to sustainable development under localism, and examines how key actors have used the Neighbourhood Planning process to put forward niche, community-based development futures. In doing so, the book offers valuable methodological, empirical and theoretical contributions to wider debates concerning transition, placemaking, local politics and planning. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy and governance. Amy Burnett is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR), Middlesex University London, UK. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the role of civil society groups, social enterprises and networks in promoting innovative and sustainable development in the context of planning and regeneration, policy influence and organisational design.