16233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Planning Permission, Natural Hazard, Collaborative Governance
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Lecture 04 strategic local planning for sustainable neighbourhoods. Good planning is the best way to: manage urban growth appropriately, secure infrastructure investment, determine appropriate settlement patterns for cities and towns, generate economic development that contributes positively to the wellbeing of: Natural and built environments we rely on. Forward" or strategic" planning: research & consultation, establish objectives, land allocation, articulate development standards, formal consultation & finalise plan. Development control: development assessment, decision & potential review or appeal, monitoring feeds back to review or the next strategic plan. The important elements of a planning system: legal source/s of power, policies balanced by incentives and controls that are underpinned by equity and a commitment to sustainability, regulation, legal right to consultation. Infrastructure funding arrangements to provide the needs of stakeholders. Involves long-term, expensive implications: concerns structure of the city or region, planning of land-uses and infrastructure, requires cross program and intergovernmental linkages, concerns the spatial effects of economic and demographic processes (monitoring.
