Includes an opening presentation, a hands-on group exercise exploring culture, people and process and a final sharing session. We aim to identify barriers, celebrate bold ideas and create clear actions, so we can deliver local plans faster, smarter and better-focusing on what we can control.

1. Liz Hobden PAS
Sara Dilmamode PAS
The Plan-making Score –
Creating your Local Plan

2. Overview of the session
1. Introductory presentation
2. Group working: Plan-making score – creating your
local plan
3. An Expert’s View – Video
4. Feedback and close

3. Change
Changes expected in Plan-making in the
coming months
• New system Plans – 3-gateway system,
shorter timelines and examinations
and streamlined processes
• National DM policies
• Digital tools, standardised data and
evidence
• Spatial Development Strategy
Guidance and devolution

4. What’s staying the same?
• Plan-making - evidence, soundness,
spatial strategy, site allocations
• Culture for success - Need for
Leadership, good team working and
vision
• Resources - Recruitment pressures,
tight budgets, retaining staff in local

5. Plan-making in the Future:
and making it happen
Imagine the Planning world in 2034!
• Plans are prepared in 30 months
• Full coverage of country with Spatial
Development Strategies and Local Plans
• Plans are helping to deliver the homes and
jobs needed in the right places
• Plans are ensuring good place-making and
timely infrastructure delivery
• And helping us to adapt to the climate and
biodiversity crisis
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6. Our Shared Goal
Faster: Delivering adopted plans faster
Smarter: Clear, accessible and easy to
use
Better: Unlock homes, jobs, and
sustainable places…
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7. How can we achieve this?

8. The Plan-making Score
Focus on what we control to deliver our Local Plans
• Culture – leadership, collaboration and team-
working
• People – Recruitment, retention and talent
• Process – technical processes and making things
work efficiently at the service level

9. The Plan-making Score:
Group exercise
• Group exercise: 30 mins
• Introduce Yourselves and
name your group!
• Discuss: Under three key
themes of Culture, People,
and Process:
• challenges and
• solutions
• Don’t fill in the green cells
just yet!

10. Iterate, iterate, iterate
Link to video start at
2:46
Bent Flyvberg

11. Feedback from Groups
Group Feedback:
• Best Plan-making Idea - and why
(hit single)
• 2 mins for each group

12. Feedback from Groups
• Group Feedback
- Reflections
- Your immediate actions
- Some reflections from us

13. Feedback from Groups
Best Idea Prize - Vote