Benchmarking – improving planning services

(this article is reproduced with the permission of the journal of the TCPA) The Planning Advisory Service (PAS) is a government-funded programme of improvement for local authorities. Eighteen months ago we began a project for managers of planning services. This is the story of one authority, Hastings Borough Council, who were in our very first [...]

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Submission to the CLG Select Committee

[This is the summary of the report submitted by PAS in February 2007] This evidence is submitted by IDeA Planning Advisory Service (PAS) and is based on information collected and observed since the inception of PAS in late 2004. The evidence submitted is focussed on planning skills in the local government sector and cannot be read across to other public agencies or to planning undertaken in the [...]

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