Regional Planning Guidance/Regional Spatial Strategy
Regional Planning Guidance (now known as Regional Spatial Strategy) helps
deliver the Government's Communities Plan objectives that our communities:
- are economically prosperous
- have decent homes at affordable prices
- safeguard the countryside
- enjoy a well designed, accessible and pleasant living and working
environment; and
- are effectively and fairly governed with a strong sense of community.
The Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) provides a spatial framework to inform
the preparation of local development documents, local transport plans and
regional and sub-regional strategies and programmes that have a bearing
on spatial development.
It forms part of the development plan for the purposes of determining
planning applications in the South West and has statutory force under the
new Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.
The current Regional Spatial Strategy is Regional Planning Guidance 10
(RPG10) published in 2001.
Other Regional Planning Team work areas include:
- ensuring consistency between RPG (and the new RSS as it emerges) and
other relevant strategies for the South West such as the Regional Housing
Strategy, the Regional Economic Strategy and Sustainable Development
Framework
- working with the Growth Teams to ensure that development plans are
consistent with Government policy
- carrying out research, either by ourselves or using consultants, and
providing information on regional planning for Ministers, office
colleagues, other organisations and the public
- promoting understanding of Government planning policy by explaining
policy at public events and when we take part in meetings with colleagues
in the region advising DCLG on the suitability of projects proposed by
regional partners concerning planning that seeks European funding.
