The Vision: Value-Driven Planning

05-Jan-07

Successful spatial planning is value-driven...

 

Making and implementing spatial plans and policies involves decision making about issues that can be critically important to large numbers of people. Whilst consensus can sometimes be achieved and opportunities to achieve it should not be underplayed, decisions will typically be taken in the context of more than one conflicting or competing set of values.

Spatial planning is concerned with identifying, understanding and mediating different sets of values and the conflicts and competitions between them.  It is concerned with enabling many different issues and perspectives to be brought to the table. It should accounts transparently for the way in which these are evaluated and weighted in decision making.

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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 contests around our responses to climate change and our need to transparently mediate around competing values increasingly drive the development of our policy, practice, skills and ethics.  Our document observes:

The RTPI Education Commission aimed to develop education, skills and life-long learning to raise standards of professional competence. There is now a need to extend the continuing culture change in planning to promote change in the management of governments, councils, companies and agencies that are involved in spatial planning. There is an increasing clash of values about the social, economic and environmental issues raised by development and their spatial implications, particularly as between the challenge posed by climate change and the challenges posed by economic growth and social polarity.

 

 
Author:
Rynd Smith
Publisher:
The Royal Town Planning Institute
Date:
05-Jan-07
Categories:
Policy, Practice 
Sections:
What Planning Does

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