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Local strategies

Planning across boundaries
Local strategies
  Local strategy hierarchy
  Community strategies
  Culture/sport family
  Corporate plans/strategies
  Preparing/updating a cultural strategy

The process of local sport & recreation strategy preparation

Key Docs
ODPM publication Local Area Agreements- Guidance for Round 3 and Refresh of Rounds 1 and 2

Tool
Towards a Level Playing Field
Towards a level playing field - toolkit
Cabespace - open space strategy guidance
Big Lottery: Planning for Play

Guide to Other Local Strategies and links to Sport
All Local Authorities are obliged by central government regulation, and by statute, to either write, or contribute to, a wide range of strategy documents. There is some consistency between the hierarchy of these strategies across authorities but there are also differences which can lead to confusion.

How to use this guide

If you would like an overview of how all these strategies relate to each other go to Local strategy hierarchy
f you want to know more about Community Strategies and Sub Strategies go to Sustainable community strategies
If you want to know about the different Strategies that relate most directly to sport go to Culture/sport family
If you want more information on how Corporate Strategies link to the delivery of sport and culture go to Corporate plans/strategies
If you are interested in contributing to a wider cultural services go to Preparing/updating a cultural strategy
Or you can go straight to Examples from other Authorities to look at how others have approached this.

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