Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt Planning Facilities Bring the Plan to Life Richard D Smith

Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt tusp, 5-37 Maidstone Road, Ashford, England, TN24 8UA - - Tel: Planning Facilities In order to facilitate professional planning, we need to create a professional environment to undertake the planning within. Meeting rooms seem to be at a premium, so the idea behind a phase or stage meeting rooms, is that an area or room is dedicated to planning The room then needs to be equipped correctly If people then need information or need to discuss the plan, then all the relevant information is displayed within the dedicated room Ensuring that our delivery / project offices and established correctly is key, anyone walking into a project office should understand from the information displayed, what the project is and what the objectives are.

Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt tusp, 5-37 Maidstone Road, Ashford, England, TN24 8UA - - Tel: Area Maps Area maps are key to people understanding of the local area The maps should display (but not limited to) – Roads – Key depots – The Railway – Local names – Access points – Stations – Level Crossings – Key Junctions

Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt tusp, 5-37 Maidstone Road, Ashford, England, TN24 8UA - - Tel: Route Maps Route maps are key to people understanding the detail The maps should display (but not limited to) – Bridges – Level Crossings – S&C – Access Points – Signals

Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt tusp, 5-37 Maidstone Road, Ashford, England, TN24 8UA - - Tel: Actions Key to any successful meeting is recording actions Key here is recording them once and then ensuring everyone understands the actions Displaying them on the wall ensures that the meeting becomes more interactive and involves everyone in the session

Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt tusp, 5-37 Maidstone Road, Ashford, England, TN24 8UA - - Tel: Activity Maps Activity maps, to display scope and work being undertaken within the worksite or possession

Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt tusp, 5-37 Maidstone Road, Ashford, England, TN24 8UA - - Tel: Box Plan Box plans display activities / possessions by week and location The Box has the work type, work detail, location, possession duration and the PPS numbers, together with the DWWP RAG rating

Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt tusp, 5-37 Maidstone Road, Ashford, England, TN24 8UA - - Tel: Progress / Lessons Learnt Key to engaging resources is feeding back on progress and lessons learnt. Its important to ensure project information is displayed for all to review and understand An area should be dedicated to showing progress and communicating key project information

Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt tusp, 5-37 Maidstone Road, Ashford, England, TN24 8UA - - Tel: Planning facilities Implemented at Finsbury Park, with a view to a roll out across the SNE programme. The Mission Room allows virtual access to different parts of the site and significantly reduces the need for many costly and hazardous real site visits. Immersive clips of the site can be used for dilapidation surveys, planning and whiteboard meetings where complex operations need to be communicated quickly and clearly. Improved white board briefing facilities are being trialled at Peterborough, these include the use of interactive whiteboards and the use of magnetic information and action boards. These facilities are all about setting a professional standard for planning and briefing of project and site based resources.

Filename: PlanningToolkit-Planning FacilitiesExamplevs01.ppt tusp, 5-37 Maidstone Road, Ashford, England, TN24 8UA - - Tel: Site Establishment Signing on point, briefing point Site briefing / recording of change (magnetic white boards that sick to the side of the van) Quality signage Good quality messing facilities