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46 Connecting England5Lessons fromElsewhereThe issues that a DFE would address – under-performing economies, regionaldevelopment, and the delivery of major infrastructure – are not unique to England. TheCommission therefore considered the relevance of experience elsewhere, both in othercountries and in global corporations. The conclusions are summarised below.5.1 Trans-National and National Spatial StrategiesThe European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) represented a fundamental shift inrecognising the need for wider spatial perspectives to underpin European social and economicFig. 5.1 National Planning Frameworkfor Scotland: Strategy mapSource: Scottish Executive (2004) NationalPlanning Frameworkhttp://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/planning/npf04-28.aspFig. 5.2 National Spatial Planning in Wales: Spatial visionmapSource: The Welsh Assembly (2004) People Places, Futures – TheWales Spatial Plan.http://www.wales.gov.uk/themesspatialplan/content/ spatial-plane.htm
Lessons from Elsewhere 47Fig. 5.3 Vision for North West EuropeSource: North West Europe Programme (2000) Spatial Vision ReferenceDocument. http://www.nweurope.org/upload/documents/spatial_vision/1069.Spatial_Vision_eng.pdfpolicy. This is also reflected in other recent international policy frameworks – for example the UNHabitat agenda. These represent a paradigm shift in macro-economic policy development,whereby spatial planning or territorial management has become a key tool in the effectivemanagement of national economies. National spatial strategies have been prepared for many EUnations and regions, including the Republic of Ireland and the UK Celtic nations – for examplethe Wales Spatial Plan and the Scottish National Planning Framework.There is an argument as to why England should be the odd one out and remain the only countryin Western Europe without a framework for its development at the national scale. It is true thatsome of the examples given here serve populations similar to that of an English region. However,the range of functions and the degree of interface with both European strategies and withnational government in both the Welsh and Scottish cases make them far more than regionalplanning documents. The detailed format of the frameworks in Wales and Scotland means thatthey do not offer a direct model for application to a nation as large and complex as England.However, they do demonstrate the value of an explicit spatial framework of national priorities foreconomic or social development, environmental resources, infrastructure and connectivity.A number of witnesses, including Professor Jim Walsh and Professor Peter Roberts, presentedevidence that the emergence of the ESDP had given a new impetus to regional and nationalstrategic planning (see Fig. 5.3 on the Vision for North West Europe, a key element of the ESDP).
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