An environmental planning method for Australian jurisdictions? Comments on the SIRO-PLAN/LUPLAN schema

A previous issue of this journal included a paper called "SIRO-PLAN and LUPLAN: an Australian approach to land-use planning". The approach is described here in more conventional plan-making and plan-evaluation terms and is observed to be inappropriate for the types of problems it is intended to solve, to incorporate a politically unacceptable design and selection procedure, to be oriented to plan-making rather than to decisionmaking, and to be unacceptably aloof from the community client. An approach to planning linking strategic problem solving to tactical zoning controls is advanced as an alternative.