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Local strategic planning  

Comprehensive Guidance on sport in the Planning System is available under Planning for Sport.


  How to use this guide

  
  It is worth remembering that LDFs provides you with an opportunity to become
  involved in setting locally defined development policies.  You may want to explore
  further the parallels between planning for sport and wider social and economic
  planning framework. The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act already requires
  LDFs to reflect and deliver the key objectives of the Community Strategy, if you
  have included ojectives for sport here, then you already have a way in to the LDF

  
  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
Useful links

Planning across boundaries

The process of local sport & recreation strategy preparation

Key Docs
Sport England: Planning for Sport and Active Recreation: Objectives and Opportunities (351 Kb)
Sport England: Spatial Planning for Sport and Active Recreation (627 Kb)

Tools
Policy Context
Developing Policy for Sport
Assessing Local Needs
Active Places
Planning for Sport and Active Recreation: Objectives and Opportunities
Protecting Playing Fields
Planning Obligations Kitbag
Planning Bulletins
PPG17 Companion Guide