How the strategy is implemented

Influence how the policies and proposals are implemented
When you tell the planning officers your ideas for the regional spatial strategy, think about how they could be put into practice and monitored.

It is no use having a good policy, for example on protecting hedges, if it is ignored by local planners and no one is checking what they are doing.

Word your suggestions in a way that makes it easier to check how well they are being implemented and what difference they are making. (reference: PPS 11, paragraph 3.4)

Suggest policies that can be quantified if you can, such as targets for using brownfield sites. 

Create a clear focus on policies on environmentally sustainable development, even if it is hard to think how to monitor the impact they are having.