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WMRSS Monitoring
Latest News - Annual Monitoring Report 2009
The final West Midlands Annual Monitoring Report was considered and approved at the Regional Planning and Environment Executive on 23rd February 2010. The submitted document will be available here in early March with the printed version being available shortly afterwards. The 2009 Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) covers the period April 2008 - March 2009, the sixth prepared since the publication of the West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy (WMRSS).
WMRSS Monitoring
The Assembly, as the Regional Planning Body, has a responsibility to monitor the implementation and effectiveness of the Regional Spatial Strategy for the West Midlands.
Monitoring is a key part of the Government's new planning system in order to address questions like:
- are policies achieving their objectives?
- have policies had unintended consequences?
- are the assumptions and objectives behind the policies still relevant?
- are the targets being achieved?
Monitoring will help to underpin the assessment of current and development of future planning policies at local, sub-regional and regional levels.
The Assembly is required to produce an Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) by the end of February each year for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). Data acquisition begins in late spring of each year and relates to the previous period 1st April to 31st March.
Previous Monitoring Reports also available:
Other Useful Documents
ODPM CoreOutput Indicators for Regional Planning
ODPM Local Development Framework Core Output Indicators
For further information about Monitoring please contact Paul Bayliss, West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy Team on 0121 678 1027.