PLACE GUIDE: A PROCESS FOR IMPROVED PLACE-BASED DECISION MAKING SCOTTISH FUTURES TRUST
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Understanding the Place approach
Process
5 Describing future Place What should the future be?
Place Framework: Place Narrative & Place Actions
What is this for?
This step starts to determine answers to: “What can/should Place-based change here look like?” – i.e. setting out a different scenario including the hopes and aspirations of people there, and their criteria for success. The output should be the Place Brief and, in turn, the Place Diagram. These key outputs bring together the current and future Place in accessible ways.
Work to define that should be framed from users’ perspectives, with robust consultation with those who live, work and play in the relevant areas.
Place initiatives will be developed at many levels and geographies: that also means considering the supports that might be needed to give people confidence and ability to engage. e.g. childcare, peer support, access to technology etc. It may be useful to use an independent/ objective facilitator for these exercises.
We will already have mapped and refined Place-related current and planned activity, themes and implications. A strengths-based approach enhances that by showing features that may benefit from better coordination, positioning, connectivity etc. We should note too the guidance on local Place Plans, especially the recommendation for clearly expressed statement and spatial map (and links to the Place Brief and Diagram).
Existing tools and resources (see step 4) provide useful prompts on outcomes as well as changes to service delivery or physical infrastructure. That includes aligning with the Infrastructure Investment Plan and the National Planning Framework, prompting on “determine future need” and references to Net Zero, inclusive growth, technological innovation and climate change forecasts.
In this stage, there should be an explicit action to show what’s possible making more of what exists, colocation etc, and that the outcomes and intentions around the problem that was driving a project can be achieved, and maybe exceeded. Part of this stage might also be about stress testing around value; using the IIP, is it better to invest in a new building or invest in technology and support for distributed working? In a way this stage is about creating the alternatives to meet the ambition, with a framework to evaluate the alternatives.
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Confirming Place
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Determining Place resources & governance
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Defining current Place
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Programming activities for future Place
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Partnering to deliver future Place
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Progressing ideas for future Place
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Describing future Place
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