by Karen | Mar 14, 2022 | Community Strategic Plan, IP&R, local government |
By now, most councils will be close to finalising the Community Strategic Plan prepared on behalf of their local community. Before it goes to the elected council for formal endorsement and then to publication, it’s useful to do one last check that the draft is...
by Karen | Sep 18, 2021 | IP&R, local government |
It’s been just over a week since OLG finally published the updated IP&R Guidelines and Manual (or Handbook, as it’s now called). On the day of publication, like many of you, I was keen to understand what might be different and new in terms of the requirements of...
by Karen | Jul 31, 2021 | councillors, IP&R, Planning for IP&R, Uncategorized |
What an extraordinary 17 months or so it has been. As we head into Local Government Week, I thought it was time to get back to my IP&R blog. Obviously the whole world has been thrown into a spin with the global COVID-19 pandemic, but my focus for this blog article...
by Karen | Apr 26, 2020 | councillors, IP&R, local government, Operational Plan |
There has been some interesting debate amongst IP&R practitioners recently about the how, when, why and what of councillor involvement in the preparation, endorsement, adoption and implementation of the suite of IP&R documents. As the most pressing task at the...
by Karen | Mar 22, 2020 | Community engagement, IP&R, local government |
Firstly we had the drought and a devastating bushfire season, then floods, and now more reason to use the term “unprecedented” with the arrival of the corona virus phenomenon. What does it all mean for the local government sector? And how do we carry on with any...
by Karen | Feb 2, 2020 | IP&R, Planning, Reporting |
Hands up if you sometimes get confused between a strategy and an objective, between a goal and an outcome? There are lots of different terms applied to planning and reporting practice, and it is not uncommon to find a term used in the wrong way, making it difficult to...
