The art of strategic The art of strategic planningplanning
• Strategy – management tool• Disciplined effort to
– produce fundamental decisions and actions
– shape and guide what an organization is, does, and why
• Future orientation• Understanding of uncertainty
and risk as inherent in the process
Three key requirementsThree key requirements• Purpose
– What are we doing?– Are we doing the right thing?
• Understanding of environment and context– Particularly factors such as
regulation, competition, technology, client groups
• Creativity and preparedness to change– Responsive dynamic organizational
structure
Ideal outcomesIdeal outcomes
• Leads to action• Builds shared vision/common
purpose• Is inclusive and participatory• Is accountable and transparent• Is externally focused• Has quality assurance processes• Is reflexive• Enhances management and
practice
A Typical Strategic A Typical Strategic Planning ModelPlanning Model
• Get ready• Identify issues• Clarify roles• Planning committee• Organizational profile –
audit/inventory• Outcome: Work plan
A Typical Strategic A Typical Strategic Planning ModelPlanning Model
• Articulate statement of purpose, mission and vision• “As the capital city of Tasmania,
Hobart will be a vibrant, progressive, prosperous, efficiently managed, human-scale city that provides for the best possible lifestyle opportunities… Our mission is to ensure good governance of our City.”
A Typical Strategic A Typical Strategic Planning ModelPlanning Model
• Assess the situation• Current strengths and weaknesses• Niche• Performance• Funding• Opportunities and constraints• Core and optional status• Outcome: Data and information
base
A Typical Strategic A Typical Strategic Planning ModelPlanning Model
• Develop strategies (broad objectives), and goals and objectives (general and specific results sought)• Consultation• Leadership• Outcome: outline of strategic
directions
A Typical Strategic A Typical Strategic Planning ModelPlanning Model
• Complete written plan• Circulate• Review• Link to operational plan
• Detailed action plans to accomplish goals and objectives proposed
• Link to budget• Outcome: strategic plan
Strategic planning Strategic planning should ...should ...
• recognize and reconcile various environmental, social and economic interests
• provide clear statements of values, policy, and priorities with respect to urban development
• provide direction for land release and staging of urban development within a 5-10 year time frame
and should also ...and should also ...
• Prioritize actions• Be directive enough that
operational plan is coordinated• Provide the context for the
development of statutory policy • Enable effective community
input into policy making
Community
What is together as one [the body politic]
The sense of being bound, obligated or indebted together [the social contract]
Communities of interestCommunities of place
The idea of communityThe idea of community
Sustainability
Governance and
citizenship
Social well-being
Ecological integrity
Economic security
Communities of place and communities of interest
Sustainability and Sustainability and communitycommunity
Sustainability
Empowerment and
responsibility
Social well-being
Ecological integrity
Economic security
Communities of place and communities of interest
Natural, human, social, physical and financial assets
Integrated model for Integrated model for sustainable communitiessustainable communities
Physical• buildings & infrastructure• communications• energy systems• transportation
Financial• savings• credit • pensions and remittances• welfare payments • grants and subsidies
Human• health, skills and nutrition• education and knowledge• access to services
Social capital• relations of trust and reciprocity• common rules and norms• networks and groups
Natural• natural resources-food,water, wood/fibre• ecosystems services-soil, fisheries, water, biological processes, wildlife habitat, waste assimilation• beauty of nature-recreation/leisure, aesthetic value
Capital AssetsCapital Assets
Capital assets & strategic Capital assets & strategic planningplanning
• Huon Valley Council– Community consultations and Council
research– Sustainable Communities Research
Group
• Issues and Options Paper– Capital assets model – 60 issues– Assets inventory– State of the Valley report– Scenario planning
• Institutional change
• Strategic Plan• Implementation
Asset issues in the huonAsset issues in the huonCatchment management
Water quality
Environmental management
Land and landscape values
Forestry
Agriculture
World heritage and other parks
Confidence
Capacity to act
Educational opportunities
Employment opportunities
Health and well-being
Welfare
Trust, reciprocity and networks
Reconciliation
Children and youth
Aging and the elderly
Protection of heritage and history
Government
Structures and methods of governance
Urban development
Industrial development
Roads, bridges and transport services
Streetscapes
Sewerage
Waste services
Water services
Low rate base
Limited resources
Higher than desired dependence on grants
Lack of capacity to be innovate
Leadership issues
Statutory planningStatutory planning
• Planning not in original constitution, but enacted by all tiers of government
• Policy always has an institutional context - the expression of the political will of a government or governments
• Understanding the policy and institutional context is essential for planners as policy makers
The RMPS – Tasmania’s The RMPS – Tasmania’s planning policy contextplanning policy context
• Tasmania’s land use planning embedded in the Resource Management and Planning System, introduced 1994
• RMPS a system of laws, policies and procedures to ensure integrated approach to resource and land use
• Whole of government• Predicated on principles of
ecologically sustainable development
Principles of Principles of ESDESD
• These principles (LUPAA, Schedule 1) are:– to promote sustainable development and to
maintain genetic diversity– to provide for the fair, orderly and
sustainable use and development of air, land and water
– to encourage public involvement in resource management and planning
– to facilitate economic development in accordance with these objectives
– to promote the sharing of responsibility for resource management and planning between the different spheres of government, the community and industry in the state
Policy instrumentsPolicy instruments
• Methods to achieve these objectives– Planning schemes
• basic rules for proposed new developments • managed by local governments• statutory - that is, legally binding
– Sustainable Development Policies (State Policies)
• statutory• managed by State but binding of local
governments and other instrumentalities
– Enforcement and Appeals system• Resource Management and Planning Appeal
Tribunal
– Suite of Legislation
Primary legislationPrimary legislation• Land Use Planning and Approvals Act
1993 (LUPAA)– Regulates land use and development in Tasmania
through Planning Schemes and a permit system
• Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1993 (EMPCA)– Manages and regulates pollution and other
environmental problems through various management tools and prescribed offences
• State Policies and Projects Act 1993– Deals with the creation and enforcement of
Tasmanian Sustainable Development Polices. Also defines how Projects of State Significance are approved and regulated
• Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal Act 1993– Establishes the Tribunal, which hears objections to
land use and planning proposals and has power to enforce the Acts
Linked Linked legislationlegislation
• Public Land (Administration and Forest) Act 1991 - RPDC
• Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 - flora and fauna
• Wellington Park Act 1993 - Mt Wellington Range• Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995 - heritage• Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995
- fisheries
• Marine Farming Planning Act 1995 - marine farming, leases
• Regional Forest Agreement and Land Classification Act 1998 - RFA
• Water Management Act 1999 - sustainable water use
LUPAA Schedule 1(2)LUPAA Schedule 1(2)
• Objectives of the planning process– sound strategic planning and coordinated
action by State and local governments– planning instruments by which to set
objectives, policies and controls for the use, development and protection of land
– methods to consider and provide for explicit consideration of social and economic effects flowing from the development and use of land
– planning and policy that is easily integrated with environmental, social, economic, conservation and resource management policies at State, regional and municipal levels
LUPAA Schedule 1 LUPAA Schedule 1 (2)(2)
• Objectives of the planning process– coordination of planning and related
approvals an– creation of pleasant, efficient and safe
environmental for Tasmanians and visitors
– conservation of sites, areas and places of scientific, aesthetic, architectural or historical interest, or otherwise of special cultural value
– protection of public infrastructure and assets, and orderly provision of public utilities, facilities and infrastructure
– provision of a planning framework that fully considers land capability
