The Community Planning Event Manual

Preface

Definition

used in this book

A Community Planning Eventis a carefully structured collaborative event at which all stakeholders, including the local community, work closely with independent specialists from all relevant disciplines to make plans for the future of that community or some aspects of it.

“Community involvement is an essential element in delivering sustainable development and creating sustainable and safe communities. In developing the vision for their areas, planning authorities should ensure that communities are able to contribute to ideas about how that vision can be achieved, have the opportunity to participate in the process of drawing up the vision, strategy and specific plan policies, and to be involved in development ...