Strategy launch puts spotlight on regional development

A MAJOR planning guidelines strategy was launched by the Mid-West Regional Authority yesterday.

The aim of the guidelines is to provide a long-term framework for the overall development of the region, which will be reviewed in 2010.

When the Government launched the National Spatial Strategy in 2002 it emphasised the need to put Regional Planning Guidelines in place as quickly as possible to enable the spatial strategy proposals to be implemented at regional level.