Plans facilitate the expected outcomes. Likewise, funding of new infrastructure, or provision of public amenities and social facilities and services need to be aligned with expectations of existing communities and to support a growing population, to make the Clarence a great place to live, work and play.
3.7. Working together for collective impact Council cannot act alone to make the Clarence Valley a community full of opportunity. It will require a wide range of people in the community and the public and private sector working together, actively and with purpose, to get the best outcomes. Spatial planning is designed to “bring together and integrate policies for the development and use of land with other policies and programmes which influence the nature of places and how they function”. Spatial planning goes beyond traditional land-use planning. It facilitates and promotes sustainable and inclusive patterns of urban and rural development. Rather than operating through a narrow technical perspective, spatial planning should actively involve all members of society because everyone has a stake in the places in which they live, work and play - University College London & Deloitte, 2007
Collective impact, where stakeholders collaborate across sectors to address complex issues, is a problemsolving process. Through working together, with a wide range of people and sectors contributing, it enables solutions to emerge. Preparing strategic plans or trying to provide solutions for ‘wicked’ or complex problems - like creating more resilient communities - often have no single solutions and they require input and knowledge from a range of people across different sectors. The outcomes of various interrelated interventions are often unpredictable at the start of the process, but if we work together the outcomes will be more positive than if we have no plan at all. Figure 6 illustrates the five conditions for effective collective impact, which should be applied to progress the actions of this LSPS, along with other work programmes across Council and with other agencies and the community.
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