Functions
- Provide operational planning policy, Development Plans and high quality professional planning decisions.
- Improve delivery of services, having regard to the effective use of available resources, Section 75 of and Schedule 9 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and associated human rights and equality policies.
- Improve the quality of services available to customers in line with the principles of Service First - The New Charter Programme and the Agency’s Charter Standards Statement.
- Provide an accurate and speedy land and property information service to the conveyancing community
- Ensure that Development Plans, Planning Policies and Development Control promote the orderly and consistent use of land.
- Obtain best value and efficiency in the management of the Agency.
- Develop and maintain effective financial and management information systems
- Maintain high levels of motivation, skills and performance of staff
- Explore opportunities for and introduce, where practicable, Public Private Partnership arrangements
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“One of the most highly valued functions of used parents these days is to be the villains of their children’s lives, the people the child blames for any shortcomings or disappointments. But if your identity comes from your parents’ failings, then you remain forever a member of the child generation, stuck and unable to move on to an adulthood in which you identify yourself in terms of what you do, not what has been done to you.”
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—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)