ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the community planning processin terms of: the strategic planning challenges, the technical capability, the institutional competence, the inclusive processes and the implications for national planning. It presents the approach of the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Structure Plan Joint Committee to the issues. This experience provides a model of the inclusive strategic approach that is required by the new framework for the sub-national governance of Britain. In view of the need to reintegrate the strategic planning process in the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area, it has been necessary to establish additional processes to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Metropolitan Plan. These include the following: the creation of networks, a participatory planning process with public and private sector key agencies, and complementary policy reports. The local planning authorities have set up a number of formal networks of organisations to facilitate the plan preparation process in addition to their own statutory Structure Plan Joint Committee.
