14/06/2017

If you like planning, put a number on it

Planning must get over its anxieties about numbers and address economy head-on if it wants to be taken seriously as a contributor to economic growth and wellbeing, argues the RTPI's deputy head of policy and research Dr Mike Harris

The latest stage in our work on the value of planning is to commission the global consultancy Arup to develop and test a tool for capturing the impact of local authority planning in Wales. Why are we doing this work?Most obviously, we need the evidence. Planning departments have been the hardest hit of all local authority functions. The Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates that planning........

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If you like planning, put a number on it

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