When is land-use planning useful?
Two conditions must be met if planning is to be useful:
• the need for changes in land use, or action to prevent some unwanted change, must be accepted by the people involved;
• there must be the political will and ability to put the plan into effect.
Where these conditions are not met, and yet problems are pressing, it may be appropriate to mount an awareness campaign or set up demonstration areas with the aim of creating the conditions necessary for effective planning.