The RTPI is committed to supporting members in an increasingly demanding work environment:

• Maximising staff career and professional development opportunities

We asked RTPI Learning Partners in the public sector how they ensure that career and professional development priorities are not compromised by the current climate of budget cuts and cost reductions (article).

• A tailored approach is needed when deciding on workloads and fees

As councils reduce services to meet budgets, issues around planning officers’ caseloads must be understood to help maintain resources and justify fees (article).

• Survey of public and private sector employers in Wales, conducted between September and October 2010

The survey includes views from 68% of Welsh Councils, covering a range of topics including the number and type of planners employed, redundancy strategies, CPD resources and what employers consider to be the key issues when recruiting planners.

• Help is at hand for planning authorities wanting to understand their costs . .(article)

Report on the Planning Advisory Service publication 'Where does all the money go?'

• Reduce Costs not the quality of service  . . (article)

Report from a 2010 RTPI Planning Convention workshop offering cost-saving ideas to Local Planning Authorities.

• Helping planning services respond to the challenges ahead.

Planners may not fully realise the strength of the tools in their hands that can support the localist agenda, and the service they can provide both corporately and to service departments in helping them to operate more efficiently. 

• Facing the Future

Report of a workshop presenting challenges and opportunities facing planning services.

• Systems Thinking

Report on shifting the focus from processes and targets to positive outcomes

• Management guidance and information

Free guidance notes and support to help members develop some of their management skills.The RTPI also provides a number of good practice notes to support those managing planning services.

• Effective Practice in Spatial Planning Project

How is spatial planning, and the culture change required to deliver it, being achieved in practice? These are questions RTPI’s Effective Practice in Spatial Planning Project investigated.

• Bonus schemes and market supplements in the public and private sector

Results of a survey of RTPI members.

• Technical Membership - supporting those who support the planning service

Results of a survey of RTPI Technical Members, who they are and what role they play in improving standards across a planning service.

• Job Evaluation

We've offered guidance and information to members on job evaluation and how to appeal against proposed pay cuts. Our 'job evaluation and public sector perfomance' online survey sought to gather member's views on the impact of job evaluation.

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  Planners as Managers - Shifting the Gaze summary (1995) (1.33 Mb)
  Summary of main report
  12-Feb-10

Author:

Chris Sheridan

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

01-Mar-11

Categories:

Planners in the Workplace 

Sections:

Member Services

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