Sport England

Part I of the Local Government Act 2000 places a duty on local authorities to prepare 'community strategies', for promoting or improving the economic, social and environmental well-being of their areas, and contributing to the achievement of sustainable development in the UK. It also gives authorities broad new powers to improve and promote local well-being as a means of helping them to implement those strategies.

Click here to view guidance on preparing Community Strategies

Game Plan – a strategy for delivering the Government's sport and physical activity objectives (December 2002) seeks to:·

• significantly increase and widen the base of participation in sport, particularly for health benefits - a target of 70% of the population to be reasonably active (defined as participating in 30 minutes of moderate exercise five times per week) by 2020·
• be in the top five of nations competing in sport on the international stage and, in particular, to achieve consistent success in the sports which are most culturally significant for the nation·
• reform sports organisations to create more effective delivery structures -including making Sport England and UK Sport more strategic, funding organisations rather than being involved in direct delivery to partners.

Click here to read to Game Plan

Strategies which set the strategic context for open space planning that is based on protecting and promoting the network of open spaces throughout local authority areas. They seek to understand the supply and demand of open spaces and identify ways of protecting, creating and enhancing them and improving the quality through better management. Strategies are often aimed at meeting the requirements for assessments and audits for open spaces contained in Planning Policy Guidance 17: Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation (PPG17)(July 2002). e.g.

Click here to read more about Open Space Strategies

Statements of intent and partnership between key agencies and providers committed to establishing a sustainable infrastructure to provide a single system for all people to benefit from sport and physical activity.

An example of a County Sports Parternship framework is the Londonactive Partnership, click here to read this strategy

Central government guidance on planning for open space, sport and recreation, founded on the understanding that open spaces, sport and recreation all underpin people's quality of life. Well designed and implemented planning policies for open space, sport and recreation are therefore fundamental to delivering broader Government objectives. These include: supporting an urban; supporting a rural renewal; promotion of social inclusion and community cohesion; health and well being; promoting more sustainable development.

To view PPG 17 ,click here.

Regional Economic Strategies (RES) are statutory documents prepared by the Regional Development Agency. First produced in 1999, the strategies  provide:

• a regional framework for economic development, skills and regeneration which will ensure better strategic focus for and co-ordination of activity in the region whether by the agency or by other regional, sub-regional or local organisations;
• a framework for the delivery of national and European programmes which may also influence the development of Government policy;
• the basis for detailed action plans for the agency’s own work, setting the wider aims and objectives for its annual corporate plan.
  
  

Regional interpretations of the Framework for Sport in England. They are high level, advocacy documents designed to provide strategic guidance to a range of traditional partners, e.g. local authorities, governing bodies of sport, education providers, sports clubs, etc, as well as to influence the policies and plans of other agencies for whom sport and active recreation can make a significant contribution to their objectives and goals.

Click here to view the list of Regional Plans for Sport

Local authority strategies which provide a framework for making decisions about the future planning of sport and recreation in the District. They consider the role of all key stakeholders but it is primarily concerned with the needs of sport and recreation rather than those of any one organisation.

e.g. Sport & Recreation Strategy by Kirklees Metropolitan Council

The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 places considerable emphasis on a sub-regional approach to addressing strategic cross boundary issues within regions. Where necessary and clearly justified, the Regional Spatial Strategies set out sub-regional policies and proposals to address issues that cannot be dealt with either by individual or joint development plan documents or by other policies in the RSS.

An example of Sub Regional Strategies is the Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub regional Strategy, click here to read more