Influence how they are implemented

When you suggest policies, suggest ways they could be

• Implemented
• Monitored

Argue that policies that cannot easily be evaluated by numerical monitoring are just as important as those that can.

Suggest other ways of evaluating both the quality of the environment and how well planners are doing their job implementing policy.

For example, suggest they carry out a survey of new development 'on the ground' and monitor the success of conservation policy and joined-up planning.

Ask your local authority how it is going to monitor how well other agencies are implementing policies and proposals they signed up to.

Try to obtain monitoring information as soon as it becomes available, without waiting for the annual monitoring report