What is planning?
Planning is balancing the built and natural environment, community needs, cultural significance, and economic sustainability, planners aim to improve our quality of life and create vibrant communities.
The work planners do is becoming more important as society places greater emphasis on environmental sustainability, liveable communities, high quality urban design and managing urban growth effectively in order to build a nation worth inheriting for future generations. Planners are at the centre of complex debates about the places in which we live and specialise in the areas of planning that include:
- balancing the built and natural environment, community needs, cultural significance and
- economic sustainability, planners aim to improve our quality of life and create vibrant communities.