In more detail
Land use planning is the rational allocation of a limited natural resource - land - between competing potential uses.
Spatial planning includes land use planning, but takes into account all the policies and activities which affect a place (including ones which aren't so obviously to do with land use) and all the effects of decisions about land use on a place (including those which are social and more subtle than relatively straightforward economic and environmental effects). You might see spatial planning called things like 'placeshaping'.
Spatial plans (and before them land-use plans) are the basis of the local planning framework. Which is the set of policies which help the council to decide what development should be allowed, or not, in your neighbourhood. A neighbourhood plan is a spatial plan. Local plans produced by your council are also spatial plans.
There are many other sorts of plans and ways of enforcing plans and policies which also help to shape neighbourhoods. This toolkit aims to explain neighbourhood planning and put it in the context of other forms or spatial planning and other forms of community planning that can make your neighbourhood a better place to live and work.
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Spatial plans are land-use plans which also take into account how a wide range of other policies affect places and how land use affects wider social well-being. Neighbourhood plans are an example of spatial plans, but they aren't the only approach to spatial planning and spatial plans are not the only sort of plan whcih affects the wllbeing of your neighbourhodo and the communities which share it. |
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