The primary aim of Town and
Regional Planning
- To find the balance between the conflicting demands of housing, industrial development, agriculture, recreation, the transport network and the natural environment, to allow appropriate development to take place.
- Ensuring a reasonable quality of life for people by developing our society and the physical conditions in which we live, work and play.
- Providing housing, jobs, education, health care services, consumer and leisure services.
- Ensuring essential services such as water, sewerage, solid waste disposal, electricity etc. are planned for.
- Planning for the movement (transportation) of people to and from their work, residence, shopping and recreation.
- Allocation of scarce resources and land to provide in the needs of the present and the future.
- Conserving the present natural and heritage resources.
