preparation of urban & regional structure plans

Initiation and planning program: To determine need for new plan or revision of old plan and
identify prerequisite that should be met before the commencement of the plan.
Situation Assessment purpose: To assess the contextual setting of a city/ town to obtain
preliminary but sufficient background information
Planning Issue Identification & Prioritization: To identify a list of planning issues and select
the major priorities/critical problems.
Setting Vision, Goals and Objectives: To set vision, major goals, objectives & formulation of
strategies.
Data Collection and Compilation Purpose: To get adequate data (historical, physical, socio-
economic, geology, environmental, spatial data, etc)
Data Analysis and Interpretation Purpose: The purpose of data analysis is to abstract
significant facts from the collected mass of data .This step will thus lead to meaningful findings
that are ready for recommendations and proposals.
Preparation Conceptual PLAN: To prepare a conceptual plan consists, future expansion
directions, major land use /zones and other major elements
Preparation of a Framework Plan: To prepare land use proposal of the structure plan based on
spatial inputs
Plan Approval Purpose: To evaluate the proposals to publicize the basic plan process and its
readiness for implementation To give plans a legal framework.
Implementation, monitoring & Evaluation: To translate plans into visible products on the
ground. To check if proposals, principles, norms & standards, and regulations are working
appropriately. To identify the problems and Impacts of the plan .To design corrective measures
to be taken for promoting the plan implementation

Action Plan

Urban action planning is concerned with the urgent need to improve planning practice and
methodology in order to make urban planners more responsive to local urban problems and more
effective in their capacity to guide urban development processes and improve living conditions
in urban areas. Urban action planning is being applied in such diverse fields as urban renewal,
the upgrading of settlements, environmental planning, social and technical infrastructure
planning, up to the formulation of programmes to alleviate urban poverty. It combines
spatial/physical aspects of urban development with the environmental, economic and social
needs of the urban population, by means of an inter-sectoral approach to urban development and
planning.
Urban action planning aims to analyze overriding problematic issues which negatively affect
urban development, to identify local resources which can be turned into effective opportunities
for an improvement of the urban area, and to initiate locally-based development programs to
improve the urban environment and local economy. At the same time, urban action planning
provides a focus on institutional change required to plan, finance and implement urban
development and action programmes.