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National Planning Improvement

The National Planning Improvement Team is responsible for monitoring the performance of planning authorities and providing advice to them (and others) on what steps might be taken to improve their performance.

Working with all organisations involved in planning, the National Planning Improvement team aims to ensure that:

  • the planning system enables the delivery of sustainable, liveable and productive places
  • planning services are equipped to work effectively and efficiently, embedding continuous improvement
  • users are able to engage constructively with the planning system and planning service.

Key activities of the team are to:

  • establish a performance management model and self-assessment process for planning authorities
  • support planning authorities to identify areas for improvement and working with them to address these
  • identify strategic challenges facing the planning system and working with stakeholders to address them
  • work with others to identify, share and support people and organisations to implement good practice.

It does this through:

  • working with planning authorities to develop and pilot the National Planning Improvement Framework
  • establishing a National Planning Improvement Hub to provide planning authorities to upskill, access specialist expertise and build their capacity
  • gathering insights that identify the steps key stakeholders involved in planning need to take to support improvement.
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