Uniting Britain - Royal Town Planning Institute

Explores existing data sources and mapping techniques that could be used to draw up a UK spatial planning framework. A team led by Celia Wong at the University of Manchester  produced this report for the RTPI, demonstrating in practical terms just how much benefit governments, policy makers and decision makers would gain from the systematic ordering of broad scale data about the UK to answer 'hard questions' on a spatial base. As well as demonstrating the benefits of such a framework, the report, assembled by a small team using widely available data and information technology, demonstrates that manipulating policy and decision support data on a UK-wide scale need no longer be a resource-hungry exercise.  A UK SPF would offer wide benefits at limited cost to the nation. 

United Kingdom Spatial Planning Framework (UK SPF) - Royal Town Planning Institute

A team led by Celia Wong (University of Manchester) has produced a report for the RTPI, demonstrating the benefit decision makers would gain from the systematic ordering of broad scale data about the UK to answer hard questions on a spatial base.

Measuring the Outcomes of Spatial PLanning in England

The Department of Communities and Local Government and the RTPI commissioned this research to explore how indicators can be used to assess and improve the contribution of spatial planning to the delivery of sustainable development. It was carried out by a research team from the Centre for Urban Policy Studies at the University of Manchester and the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Manchester.The study was undertaken in the context of a new set of performance indicators for local government and the development of new guidelines for annual monitoring. It sets out an approach to conceptualising and using indicators to support the forging of new local development frameworks and their co-ordination with sub-regional, regional, and ultimately national, objectives and strategies for development. Significantly it aims to use data and indicators that have already been developed in order to promote a consistent and pragmatic basis for developing monitoring and evaluation.The indicator framework set out in the report is designed to enable local authorities and regional planners, and their partners, to gain a much clearer picture of the overall effect their spatial policies can have on communities, the economy and the environment.The researchers have used the English national planning policy guidance to scope their framework. This framework can be used to assess the contribution of spatial planning to place-making outcomes through the bundling or clustering of relevant indicators. Users can add further relevant measures according to the specific priorities of their area. 

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  The UK Spatial Planning Framework: A Discussion (5.18 Mb)
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  09-Mar-07

Author:

Melissa Wyatt

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

17-Feb-09

Categories:

RTPI Publications 

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