Politics, planning, and ruling: the art of taming public participation

Figures & data

Table 1. Timeline and content of meeting.

Time	Action
6.9.2017	City council decides to revise the housing scheme in the Karlsrud area
3.4.2018	Planning office calling for pre-meeting at the city planning department with business interests and landowners
4.4.2018	Follow-up note from Department of Urban Development to the Urban Development Committee, including a note on ‘possibilities on innovations from participation in relation to area regulation’
24.4.2018	Meeting with business interests and landowners at the city planning department
4.6.2018	Planning office calling landowners for meeting about the upstart plan
28.6.2018	Meeting with landowners
6.9.2018	Internal city administration invitation to departments to join the inter-municipal planning group for the project
21.9.2018	City council receives ‘the take-off planning note for Lambertseter-Karlsrud’ (not publicly available)
22.10.2018	The ‘take-off’ note is politically approved.
28.11.2018	The city council’s ‘Department of Housing and Urban Renewal’ political notes on ‘mapping area needs’ at Karlsrud (functions) are launched for political debate
14.12.2018	The neighbour and landowners at Karlsrud, the government’s planning department, the regional planning office, relevant municipal institutions, and local public organizations are notified about the plan
13.2.2019	The District Council at Nordstrand – the administrative apparatus for the Karlsrud-Lambertseter area – makes their approval, comments, and suggestions for the plan
19.2.2019	Invitation to local primary/youth school to have a one-day meeting guided by the planning office (19.3.2019)
05.3.2019	The city planning office publishes an invitation to name representatives to join the ‘co-acting group’ (Samspillsgruppen), sent to private landowners, housing co-operatives, and other local sports and volunteer organizations
20.3.2019	First meeting with businesses, investor interests, co-operatives, and local organizations to formally start the ‘co-working group’ under the city’s planning and building department and led by the Planning and Building Etat
April 2019	Website for comments and requests on information opened Workshop with invited participants
15.10.2019	The Council for Urban Development delivers the ‘presentation of plan programme’ for the Karlsrud area regulation to the city council
October 2019–2020	Meetings with investors, technical research, revision of ‘co-actor’ agreement, revision of plan programme A number of requirements on ‘insight’ into and information about area registrations – for instance, on traffic and energy – are put forward by local actors and denied by the planning office with reference to ‘an exception to the rule’ on publicness

Figure 1. Industrial heritage at Karlsrud (Accessed May 16, 2020. https://magasin.oslo.kommune.no/byplan/liv-pa-lambertseter-karlsrud).

Figure 2. Investor land-use plan (https://www.estatenyheter.no/byantikvarens-vern-kan-gi-hoyhus-pa-lambertseter/244219. Accessed January 30, 2021).

Table 2. Workshop meeting 29 April 2019.

Place qualities	Needs	Future visions	PBO summary
10 minutes city Heritage Green area Different types of housing Shops, a shopping mall Business, collective traffic Safe Sports, youth club	Housing low density Business: preserve the existing small businesses Social and cultural infrastructure (a scene for music, schools, etc.) Green public meeting places (benches, etc.) Safe traffic, more parking spaces Safe ‘soft’ traffic	Passable (soft traffic), movement, access Green spaces (light, garden parcels, biological pluralism) Mix functionality (housing/business, mix housing, family friendly, urban destination) Belonging (community pride, good reputation)	Green urban space (parks, biological pluralism, multiple use) Traffic (collective, ordered, protecting small streets) Walking connections (pathways, squares, walking zones) Housing (Lambertseter high/ Karlsrud low, garden city/town houses, low density)