The phrase "draw up schemes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process of creating plans or outlines for a project or initiative.
Example: "The committee will draw up schemes for the new community development project by the end of the month."
Alternatives: "formulate plans" or "create outlines."
Until 1973 when the Labor government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam tripled public spending on aboriginal welfare & drew up schemes for assimilation of these neglected people into the life of their country, & for the protection of their rights on what remains to them of their tribal lands, official policy had in the main reflected the average Australian's indifference to the "abos".
Councils can't be expected to draw up their schemes if the government keeps changing its mind without consulting anyone.
It is very tempting for thinktanks and politicians in opposition to draw up grand schemes for reshaping the welfare state – think Gordon Brown's tax credits and Iain Duncan Smith and the Centre for Social Justice's universal credit.
The National Institute for Smart Government, which is drawing up the scheme for the government, has spelt out just how difficult this will be.
I asked him whether he would spend some time drawing up a scheme the Prince would like.
The bigger question is how well it fulfils the goals set out by Peter Bishop, who when the director of environment at the London borough of Camden worked closely with Argent when it was drawing up the scheme.
John McVay, chief executive of Pact, the producers' trade body, and a member of the Treasury working group drawing up the scheme, said he was confident that it would start on 1 April 2013, provided clearance under state aid rules from the European Commission was obtained.
It has therefore drawn up a scheme to sell the pictures to the nation for some £30m over a period of 25 years and to receive them back, as public property, at 40 Brunswick Square, near Coram's Fields in Bloomsbury, where they would be shown and properly looked after in a new museum for Londoners.But one of the foundation's 25 trustees did not like the scheme.
