Open call
For the first time, the RTPI are making an open call for planners to help crowdsource a map of co-ordination in public sector planning.
The RTPI’s Planning Agencies report has highlighted the recruitment, skills and performance challenges public sector planning departments face as a result of chronic underfunding. It has also presented a shared services model that local authorities can use to help create more resilient and effective planning services.
However, to our knowledge, no other body has fully mapped the co-ordination of planning services.
Can you help us to complete a planning co-ordination map?
Planners can share examples of co-ordination between neighbouring councils using the form below. We’re particularly interested in examples of:
- Collaboration on the delivery of planning services e.g. back-end functions, development management, enforcement, etc…
- Co-operation on planning strategy and policy, e.g. Joint Spatial Strategies, Local Plans, etc…
Submit updates to our map.
What co-ordination has already been mapped?
England
|
Councils |
Collaboration on planning service delivery |
Cooperation on strategy and policy |
|
South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridge City Council |
Greater Cambridge Shared Planning |
Greater Cambridge Local Plan |
|
Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils |
These councils appointed a shared Chief Executive in 2008 and publishing their first joint Business Plans in 2012. |
In 2015 they published the East Suffolk Business Plan (2015-2023) followed by the East Suffolk Strategic Plan (2020-2024). |
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland