Functional Review
The independent functional review of the Department for Planning and Infrastructure has endorsed the model integrating land use and transport planning pioneered in Western Australia.
Bringing the state's land use and transport planning specialists together into the one agency, within an integrated portfolio and accountable to one Minister, was lauded as the envy of other states.
The report recommends a series of key reforms to enable the Department to adapt to more modern business practices and address the emerging issues in creating better places to live.
These include:
- Simplifying the Department's core functions into policy, service delivery and corporate support;
- Strengthening the Department's policy area with the appointment of a Deputy Director General, a senior policy specialist who will oversee and integrate all policy functions;
- Completing the process of integration by bringing policy units together rather than have them spread unevenly over three divisions;
- Transforming areas of the Department into business units run by general managers, with more autonomy and clearly defined customer bases;
- Focusing corporate services on strategic functions and adding Finance and Business Planning;
- Establishing a specialist unit to support the Western Australian Planning Commission
- Collocating 'like' functions as soon as possible and practical; and
- Increasing the training and support given to staff.
It is expected that the new organisation will be fully operational by June 2005.
Recommended Department for Planning and Infrastructure Processes and Functions
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Recommended Department for Planning and Infrastructure Structure
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