Best Value

Welcome to the Best Value Pages of the Society.

• Moving Towards Excellence
• Updates to the Guide
• A Guide to Best Value & Planning
• Update of the chapter on equality
• Update of the chapeter on competition

These pages are intended to keep you informed of the work of POS in the realm of Best Value and the Local Government Modernisation Agenda. The Guide contains advice on current best practise in delivering Best Value and will be regularly updated.

It includes how to ensure step change improvement through robust Best Value Review of your services and how to achieve the continuous improvement required to deliver Best Value in all aspects of Planning Services. Feedback from Inspections of Planning Services are incorporated, as are two new chapters on 'Improvement' and 'Information and Communications Technology'.

The Society's work on what constitutes an 'excellent' planning service is also covered in the Guide. Further work in this area - under the Moving towards excellence banner - is described on separate Moving towards excellence page.

The updated guide presents many case studies illustrating how others have tackled particular aspects of Best Value to good effect. Please let us know via the message board about any aspect of :

• Your service, of which you are particularly proud,
• Actions that you feel have led to improvements in your service.

Comments on the document together with suggestions on how it might be further improved are welcome. Please contact Ron Percival at ron@percival98.freeserve.co.uk .

There is a not a hard copy version of the report. However, a hard copy summary is available from Ron Percival at Hart. Please note that PDF files are available to allow you to download each chapter of the guide.

To view the online version of the guide, please select the link on the left:-

Note : The introduction to the Guide and the chapter on Sustainability have been updated. New chapters on Equality, inclusion and diversity and Competition and procurement to replace the existing chapters in the Guide are available as separate PDF files (see below).

Equality, inclusion and diversity (242.289Kb) - DOWNLOAD

Competition and procurement (239.616Kb) - DOWNLOAD