Sport England

  How to use this guide

• If you want further details of placing sport in Regional and Sub Regional Planning
• If you would like an overview of the Local Development Framework (LDF) process
• If you want details on how to create policies for sport in terms of sport specific policies and spatial policies
• For implementing policy and Good Practice examples of sport and recreation policies in LDF’s
• To find out about gaining monies into sport through the planning process

  
  Integrating Sport into LDFs

  The Key Actions are:-

1. Make sure that you are engaged at all stages of the process, from regional spatial planning, to developing SPDs.
2. Identify champions for sport within the planning process, talk to your Forward planners and get them on board
3. Make sure that sport is represented in the key documents that will influence decision making
4. Identify the priorities in each of the local Planning Documents and demonstrate how sport can contribute.
5. Agree the standards of provision using information from your PPG 17 assessment, and Design Standards within the relevant Supplementary planning documents.
6. Establish standards of provision for sport & leisure per person for your area and calculate the cost of these as a basis for section 106 contributions