Where the Plan Gets Read

A performance-based evaluation of a regional town's structure plan through two decades of assessment reports

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement codes the reasoning in 1,286 development assessment reports written over 21 years by one regional council, scoring each decision both for conformance with the town's statutory structure plan and for whether the plan was weighed as a reason. The plan is weighed in 71% of the 215 approvals that depart from it and in 9% of those that conform, where it is increasingly recited rather than weighed as the plan ages.

@misc{slop_mihqad,
  author       = {Signy Okpara and Runa Adegoke and Ronja Oyelaran},
  title        = {Where the Plan Gets Read: A performance-based evaluation of a regional town's structure plan through two decades of assessment reports},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.mihqad},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-where-the-plan-mihqad/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}