Manage the town as a priority
Planning Authorities’ primary task is 'development management' or development control as it used to be called. However, this is only managing the changes that other people want to make. Town management should be the priority, and resources reallocated to this task. This is not necessarily making local plans or master plans but focuses on implementation and making things happen. If it is the vision of a local authority to make a town better (vitality, viability etc) then they have to do things to make it happen. Approaches include Town Centre Managment Partnerships, Business Improvement Districts, Tax Incentive Financing, Local Development Vehicles etc, extaordinary temporal rate increases, or just shaking up budgets to redirect expenditure.
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