PLANNING TOGETHER: LSPS AND SPATIAL PLANNING - A PRACTICAL GUIDE

RTPI and CLG (January 2007)

This brief guide aims to improve collaboration between planners and those involved in Local Strategic Partnerships, a relationship which is required to effectively deliver positive social economic and environmental outcomes.

Planning Together provides:

• basic procedural explanations and context to ongoing planning and local governance reform;
• examples of how planning contributes to Local Area Agreement targets;
• useful approaches and sources of helpful information: and
• recommendations for integrating the Local Development Framework and Sustainable Community Strategy.

Integration is addressed across a variety of issues including:

• a corporate approach;
• sharing evidence and spatial understanding;
• joint monitoring;
• the application of sustainability appraisal;
• interlinking time scales;
• coordinated consultation; and
• collaboration with parishes and neighbourhoods.

Policy and research 

Planning Together should be read alongside the outcomes of the Effective Practice in Spatial Planning (EPiSP) Project, which has been examining the implementation of recently introduced procedures for planning and development. The project reinforces the importance of planners and LSPs working in collaboration and includes details of how spatial planning can help deliver SCS and LAA objectives and support place shaping.

 Feedback

To feed back your thoughts on content and future developments, please email practice@rtpi.org.uk

Author:

Rynd Smith and Louise Waring

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

31-Jan-07

Categories:

Policy 

Sections:

What Planning Does

This article has been read 5977 times.