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Good practice and examples

Listed here are good practise and examples, showing what benefits to sport can be achieved through new development, ranging from individual applications, to comprehensive regeneneration projects and to supplimentary planning documents.

Supplementary planning documents
Detailed analysis of recently prepared SPDs
SPDs have been prepared in all regions. The listing gives 13 local schemes, and analyses, in a systematic way, their main attributes, and the categories of sport and recreation and land uses covered.
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Downloads of full texts of SPDs

Full text downloads are available for the following SPGs

Fareham; open space calculator for new housing development
Swindon; providing open space through new development in a growth area
Mid Devon; providing and improving open space in a rural area with a one dwelling threshold
Stockport; recreational open space provision and commuted payments
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Listing of other recent SPDs
There is a steady flow of new local framework documents. These complement the small number of ‘tried and tested’ frameworks, most of which have been approved since 1998. This listing gives a number of examples from around the country
Listing of other recent SPDs

Pilot project and other initiatives
Growth area joint pilot project: Milton Keynes
A Sport England Joint Pilot Project in Milton Keynes, carried out with Milton Keynes Council and English Partnerships, has resulted in an approved SPG for the area. The SPG was approved in January 2005.
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Newcastle/Gateshead Pathfinder area
A number of sport and recreation provisions have been secured as part of a planning obligation tariff agreement in conjunction with development in the Newcastle/Gateshead Pathfinder area
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Cultural prospectus for Milton Keynes-South Midlands [MKSM] growth area
Targetted at the six local delivery bodies in MKSM, this document explains how cultural provision, including sport and recreation, can help built sustainable communities in the area. It contains details of the Aylesbury and Milton Keynes SPGs. [South East Cultural Consortium (2005) Living Spaces: Culture and Sustainable Communities in Milton Keynes and the South Midlands, Guildford, SECC].

Environmental appraisal of SPD
SPDs are now subject to environmental appraisal. Examples of such appraisals can be found in draft SPDs for Maidstone Borough, the London Borough of Camden and Bristol City Council. See also draft Government advice on ‘Sustainability Appraisal of Regional Spatial Strategies and Local Development Frameworks’ [ODPM, 2004].

The purpose of Sustainability Appraisal is to promote sustainable development through the integration of social, environmental and economic considerations into the preparation of revisions of Regional Spatial Strategies (RSS) and for new or revised Development Plan Documents (DPD) and Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD). PPS 12: Local Development Frameworks states that ‘Sustainability Appraisals (SA) will play an important part in demonstrating if the development plan document is sound by ensuring that it reflects sustainability objectives. The results of the sustainability appraisal will contribute to the reasoned justification of policies. The SPD preparation process is set out in this document - Incorporating SA within the SPD process - and shows the relationship between the SPD preparation process and the SA stages.

Contributions from employment-related and other development
Here are examples of non housing policies and spd's which seek contributions for sport.
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Site level examples
Examples of what has been achieve through individual applications;

Major housing areas:
Partnership funding in brown field situations

Social inclusion and community involvement
Pooled contributions
Rural service centres and villages
Small and medium sized sites
Gains through non residential development

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