#Thread 1/5 One of the most complex areas of policy is land use planning and economics formed in #localgov. It is also one if the most fundamental areas which has long reaching and enduring impacts on most other areas if policy from housing, health environment and economic,..
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2/5 BUT correct me if I’m wrong is almost the only area of policy that has to undergo an independent examination upon formation where others can challenge through opinion or most often private financial and economic imperatives… this also makes it profoundly difficult
3/5 ( if not impossible) to test (in the external and user defined sense) and iterate through the development of the policy framework as there is a requirement to take a product (local plan) full of wide ranging statutory policies developed over 3-5 yrs that demonstrate having
4/5 had an ‘open mind’ a term that rather than used as an appropriate lever to ensure parity proportionality, can become a constraint to proper designed approaches through the reality of legal challenge from vested private interests at an examination… this ‘fear’ or risk
5/5 aversion (well founded for those who have ever sat through public examination) is such a difficult obstacle for designing agile policy in a critical area and such a gaping anomaly for policy to deliver improved outcomes in crucial areas of human life how do we address it …?
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