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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Author:

Rynd Smith

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

05-Jan-07

Categories:

Policy, Practice 

Sections:

What Planning Does

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