Local Planning and Planning Decisions in England and Wales

Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Politics - Other International Politics Topics, grade: A, Kenyatta University, course: Public Policy, language: English, abstract: Planning is one of the most important steps in the development of effective policies to assist in addressing various social, political, and economic issues in the society. Basically, planning refers to the process of identifying the activities necessary to attain the desiredgoal (Malpass, 2003). In other words, planning is a description of the processes, which will be needed to achieve the desired results. For instance, planning encompasses the creation and maintenance of a plan. In this regard, planning takes place at the initial stages of policy development and consist of the preparation of action steps to achieve particular goals. In the field of public policy, every country, state or local authorities have specific procedures of developing plans and making planning decisions (Cole and Goodchild, 2000). In this paper, the reviewer explores how planning decisions are made in England and Wales and the benefits of the local planning policy in planning decisions.