Importance Of Spatial Planning

Critical analysis of the introduction of ‘spatial Planning’ approach in the United Kingdom
This essay covers major 3 parts:
1. What is spatial Planning?
2. Critically analysing new spatial planning
3. Conclusion
What does spatial planning is?
It is assisting with change is stressed by governments in the process they think about the important role of planning for supporting, changing and managing economic growth, improving the quality of life, through a constructive approach of the dynamics of sustained development. It focuses on planning has to be more than the traditional conventional regulatory and zoning practices use of land.
Cullingworth and Nadin in their book clearly states, spatial planning is associated with the problem of integration

The sustainable socio economic growth in focussed areas can be achieved. By the 2004 planning and compulsory purchase Act, national strategic planning has transformed from a country basis to localised one. Abolition of the national organised plans and the introduction of Regional Spatial Policies, sub-regional components also become invalid, unless adopted and incorporated by into the Local Development Frameworks by the district and unitary councils concerned. These have become policy paralysis and political influence of a steady and structured implementation of an effective spatial planning

Spatial planning is a new innovative approach towards land use planning, it has changed the planning system from centralised to more decentralised domestic different localised levels. But the problem of co-ordination, horizontal as well as vertical communications involving all the stake holders makes it more complex.
2. It gives too much focus on process than the implementation. The process of documentation at all levels will take this planning process to bureaucratic extreme. Proper implementation of the Spatial planning as the participants involved in planning are not very practically experienced in front line planning. There are logical, unclear, badly illustrated legislative which needs to be regulated and the same have been not properly communicated to the public and Governments own agencies.
3. It has complexity issue communicating and explaining to the stake holders on local level how the planning is and how their co-operation needed is very difficult, as they find it very difficult to engage in technical and diagram jargonistics of the documents. It tends to increase work load, stress among the planners.
4. It has issues with resources, sustainable development, and approach of New Labour to reforms, process and policies,