The Vision: Integrative Planning

01-Dec-11

Successful spatial planning is integrated...

Integrated planning is:

  • Broadly based,
  • Cross-cutting,
  • Multi-disciplinary, and
  • Collaborative

Too often in the past, plans were made and planning decisions are taken on a restrictive land-use basis, without proper integration with other policy objectives . Planning needs to be developed on a more consistent, cross-cutting and collaborative approach.

  • Spatial planning should take account of a much wider set of issues currently excluded from statutory systems of land-use planning, for example, inequalities in health and education, energy policy, the rural economy and urban design;
  • Spatial planning should integrate and be an integral part of the full range of public, corporate and community strategies and initiatives;
  • Spatial planning should be carried out according to coherent, functional areas and at local, regional and national levels, rather than being constrained unnecessarily by artificial administrative areas; and
  • Spatial planning should be linked to delivery mechanisms through the expenditure programmes of all relevant government and corporate agencies.
  • Spatial Planning should bring together a wider range of professional skills and disciplines. 

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And what about the future?

Click here to read more about the Climate Change Challenge to the Profession and what this means for the future New Vision. 

Our challenge document suggests that as in 2001, the key to successful spatial planning is in integration.

 
Author:
Rynd Smith
Publisher:
The Royal Town Planning Institute
Date:
01-Dec-11

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