PAS Steps Approach to Infrastructure Planning

This Steps approach offers a way in which people in Local Authorities and Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) can work together to achieve the right level of infrastructure delivery

Whilst this approach primarily deals with the local approach to infrastructure planning some of the steps identified will need to be delivered jointly with other areas and some may require a regional resource for implementation that may provide a good basis for the sub-regional working across agencies

Broadly, the guide covers:

  • what does infrastructure planning mean and why do it

  • working together on an infrastructure delivery plan

  • the strategic role of infrastructure planning

  • infrastructure planning and the local development framework

  • undertaking infrastructure planning

  • steps approach to infrastructure planning and delivery

It is important to note that:

  • this approach is just one way of approaching infrastructure planning and delivery - it is not a set procedure.

  • this approach needs to be considered as a whole and not necessarily in a sequential way - you don't have to start at Step 1 - use the approach as appropriate to local circumstances and you may chose not to follow all the steps or all parts of the steps.

  • some steps will already have been completed locally or there will be existing work that can be used.

  • the 'how to get started' bullet points are a range of suggested activities not a checklist of prescribed actions.

  • the provision of resources and examples given are indicative and not meant to provide templates

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