The art of strategic planning

1. The art of strategic planning • Strategy – management tool • Disciplined effort to • produce fundamental decisions and actions • shape and guide what an organization is, does, and why • Future orientation • Understanding of uncertainty and risk as inherent in the process

2. Three key requirements • Purpose • What are we doing? • Are we doing the right thing? • Understanding of environment and context • Particularly factors such as regulation, competition, technology, client groups • Creativity and preparedness to change • Responsive dynamic organizational structure

3. Ideal outcomes • Leads to action • Builds shared vision/common purpose • Is inclusive and participatory • Is accountable and transparent • Is externally focused • Has quality assurance processes • Is reflexive • Enhances management and practice

4. A Typical Strategic Planning Model • Get ready • Identify issues • Clarify roles • Planning committee • Organizational profile – audit/inventory • Outcome: Work plan

5. A Typical Strategic Planning Model • Articulate statement of purpose, mission and vision • “As the capital city of Tasmania, Hobart will be a vibrant, progressive, prosperous, efficiently managed, human-scale city that provides for the best possible lifestyle opportunities… Our mission is to ensure good governance of our City.”

6. A Typical Strategic Planning Model • Assess the situation • Current strengths and weaknesses • Niche • Performance • Funding • Opportunities and constraints • Core and optional status • Outcome: Data and information base

7. A Typical Strategic Planning Model • Develop strategies (broad objectives), and goals and objectives (general and specific results sought) • Consultation • Leadership • Outcome: outline of strategic directions

8. A Typical Strategic Planning Model • Complete written plan • Circulate • Review • Link to operational plan • Detailed action plans to accomplish goals and objectives proposed • Link to budget • Outcome: strategic plan

9. Strategic planning should ... • recognize and reconcile various environmental, social and economic interests • provide clear statements of values, policy, and priorities with respect to urban development • provide direction for land release and staging of urban development within a 5-10 year time frame

10. and should also ... • Prioritize actions • Be directive enough that operational plan is coordinated • Provide the context for the development of statutory policy • Enable effective community input into policy making

11. The idea of community Community What is together as one [the body politic] The sense of being bound, obligated or indebted together [the social contract] Communities of place Communities of interest

12. Sustainability and community Sustainability Governance and citizenship Ecological integrity Economic security Social well-being Communities of place and communities of interest

13. Integrated model for sustainable communities Sustainability Empowerment and responsibility Ecological integrity Economic security Social well-being Communities of place and communities of interest Natural, human, social, physical and financial assets

14. Physical • buildings & infrastructure • communications • energy systems • transportation • Financial • savings • credit • pensions and remittances • welfare payments • grants and subsidies • Human • health, skills and nutrition • education and knowledge • access to services • Social capital • relations of trust and reciprocity • common rules and norms • networks and groups • Natural • natural resources-food,water, wood/fibre • ecosystems services-soil, fisheries, water, biological processes, wildlife habitat, waste assimilation • beauty of nature-recreation/leisure, aesthetic value Capital Assets

15. Capital assets & strategic planning • Huon Valley Council • Community consultations and Council research • Sustainable Communities Research Group • Issues and Options Paper • Capital assets model – 60 issues • Assets inventory • State of the Valley report • Scenario planning • Institutional change • Strategic Plan • Implementation

16. Asset issues in the huon Catchment management Water quality Environmental management Land and landscape values Forestry Agriculture World heritage and other parks Trust, reciprocity and networks Reconciliation Children and youth Aging and the elderly Protection of heritage and history Government Structures and methods of governance Low rate base Limited resources Higher than desired dependence on grants Lack of capacity to be innovate Leadership issues Urban development Industrial development Roads, bridges and transport services Streetscapes Sewerage Waste services Water services Confidence Capacity to act Educational opportunities Employment opportunities Health and well-being Welfare

17. Statutory planning • Planning not in original constitution, but enacted by all tiers of government • Policy always has an institutional context - the expression of the political will of a government or governments • Understanding the policy and institutional context is essential for planners as policy makers

18. The RMPS – Tasmania’s planning policy context • Tasmania’s land use planning embedded in the Resource Management and Planning System, introduced 1994 • RMPS a system of laws, policies and procedures to ensure integrated approach to resource and land use • Whole of government • Predicated on principles of ecologically sustainable development

19. Principles of ESD • These principles (LUPAA, Schedule 1) are: • to promote sustainable development and to maintain genetic diversity • to provide for the fair, orderly and sustainable use and development of air, land and water • to encourage public involvement in resource management and planning • to facilitate economic development in accordance with these objectives • to promote the sharing of responsibility for resource management and planning between the different spheres of government, the community and industry in the state

20. Policy instruments • Methods to achieve these objectives • Planning schemes • basic rules for proposed new developments • managed by local governments • statutory - that is, legally binding • Sustainable Development Policies (State Policies) • statutory • managed by State but binding of local governments and other instrumentalities • Enforcement and Appeals system • Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal • Suite of Legislation

21. Primary legislation • Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 (LUPAA) • Regulates land use and development in Tasmania through Planning Schemes and a permit system • Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1993 (EMPCA) • Manages and regulates pollution and other environmental problems through various management tools and prescribed offences • State Policies and Projects Act 1993 • Deals with the creation and enforcement of Tasmanian Sustainable Development Polices. Also defines how Projects of State Significance are approved and regulated • Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal Act 1993 • Establishes the Tribunal, which hears objections to land use and planning proposals and has power to enforce the Acts

22. Linked legislation • Public Land (Administration and Forest) Act 1991 - RPDC • Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 - flora and fauna • Wellington Park Act 1993 - Mt Wellington Range • Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995 - heritage • Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 - fisheries • Marine Farming Planning Act 1995 - marine farming, leases • Regional Forest Agreement and Land Classification Act 1998 - RFA • Water Management Act 1999 - sustainable water use

23. LUPAA Schedule 1(2) • Objectives of the planning process • sound strategic planning and coordinated action by State and local governments • planning instruments by which to set objectives, policies and controls for the use, development and protection of land • methods to consider and provide for explicit consideration of social and economic effects flowing from the development and use of land • planning and policy that is easily integrated with environmental, social, economic, conservation and resource management policies at State, regional and municipal levels

24. LUPAA Schedule 1 (2) • Objectives of the planning process • coordination of planning and related approvals an • creation of pleasant, efficient and safe environmental for Tasmanians and visitors • conservation of sites, areas and places of scientific, aesthetic, architectural or historical interest, or otherwise of special cultural value • protection of public infrastructure and assets, and orderly provision of public utilities, facilities and infrastructure • provision of a planning framework that fully considers land capability