Core Planning Principles Overview

When plan-making and decision-taking, planning authorities must balance and integrate a variety of complex social, economic, environmental and other matters that are in the long term public interest. This is fundamental to the achievement of sustainable development. To assist with the above mentioned approach the core planning principles of the two-tier planning system are: • Improving Health and Well-being; • Creating and Enhancing Shared Space; • Supporting Sustainable Economic Growth; • Supporting Good Design and Positive Place Making; and • Preserving and Improving the Built and Natural Environment.