

Time & Location
25 Feb 2019, 09:00 – 13:00
Endeavour House, Endeavour House, 8 Russell Rd, Ipswich IP1 2BX
About The Event
How to deliver proactive planning, in order to deliver the most appropriate outcome for a particular site, from strategic considerations such as managing collaboration with project teams throughout the planning timeline, through to the particular tactics, such as setting clear expectations for applicants.
In this session, we will explore what it means to practice ‘proactive planning’, in policy and practice.
We will firstly situate ourselves in policy-making, considering how the ability to be 'proactive' is rooted in the policies, but also the process of making them. We will consider our current approaches to the development of local plans, guidance and briefs.
At a finer scale, we will consider the pragmatic, every-day ways we can practice proactively, for example through managing collaboration with project teams throughout the planning process by setting clear expectations for applicants.
There will be a brief discussion around the tools at our disposal, such as…