Community Planning Website (UK)

The website contains principles, methods, scenarios and terminology for community planning activities to help people develop their cities, towns and villages in any part of the world.

The Community Planning Website contains:

• About community planning: provides general introductory material.
• General Principles A-Z: sets out universal principles which tend to apply to any community planning activity. As with most material on the site, they are listed in alphabetical order for easy reference.
• Methods A-Z: covers a selection of methods for helping people get involved in physical planning and design. The purpose and main features of each is summarised on the opening page with menus at the bottom taking you to tips, checklists, sample formats, costs and further information.
• Scenarios A-Z: shows how a number of methods can be combined in an overall strategy. A range of scenarios cover some common development situations. The opening page provides a summary of the scenario with a detailed activity sequence accessed from a button on the bottom right of the page (see screenshot with navigation information). Further and related information can be accessed from menus at the bottom of the page as with Methods A-Z.
• Glossary A-Z: explains common terms. It includes limited information on methods not covered in the Methods A­Z and provides cross-references. This can very usefully be used as an index to the site and to the subject.
• Useful formats and Useful checklists: contain documents which may save you time. They can be viewed on screen and downloaded so they can be adapted for your own use.
• Publications and film A-Z and Contacts A-Z: provide further sources of information.
• Feedback: makes it easy for you to help us build and improve this website.

Follow this link to the Community Planning website (opens in a new browser window)

The website is part of the Community Planning Project (UK) which was started in January 2005 and is funded until March 2007. The aim of the project is to help develop the mainstream practice of community planning to deliver more sustainable communities.

Initiatives include:

• Producing Guidance
• Community Planning Forum
• Planning Aid support
• Events and Training
• Articles
• Website

The Project is managed by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) of the UK and a Community Planning Officer, Louise Waring has been employed to coordinate it. It is funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) UK. Many of the initiatives are being undertaken in partnership with other organisations.

For further information

Contact	:	Louise Waring, Community Planning Officer, RTPI
Address	:	41 Botolph Lane London EC3R 8DL
Phone	:	+44(0)20 7929 9485
Email	:	louise.waring@rtpi.org.uk