What Kind of Plans?

NCP produced by the Federal Government

Canberra Plan produced by ACT Government

The overall outcome expected of the planning process may possibly be the most ideal solution that stand the test of time and reasonably changing conditions. That is to say potential positive power of the urban planning field and profession exist far beyond the realm of planning documents given its changeable impacts on daily lives of people within a given community, region or city. However the way planners go about creating better places through change is fundamentally summarised and subsequently based upon planning documents.  Unfortunately the planning process is highly complicated and when a sight a final planning document it’s important to remember that it’s often one of many final planning documents that influence a given space and have different applications- a local example would be the simultaneous National Capital Plan and the Canberra Plan- a situation arising from Canberra unique co-existing national and territory planning jurisdictions.