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Spatial Planning and Culture: general guidance
Please find below resources to give you guidance on planning policy and guidance with a cutural angle. We're currently working on a download that will enable you to click to the relevant information more quickly, so please bear with us.
Delivering Sustainable Development, Planning Policy Statement 1, 2005
This sets out the Governments national aims for spatial planning. Key principles for local decision making are outlined, and more detail is given of how to plan for sustainable development.
The sections on social cohesion and inclusion, and sustainable economic development are of particular relevance to planning for culture.
People, Places and Prosperity, DCLG, 2005
This describes progress on the Governments Sustainable Communities Plan, first announced in February 2003. This promotes the Thames Gateway, Milton Keynes-South Midlands, and Ashford as growth areas within the region. A useful set of definitions, describing the attributes of a sustainable community, are included.
www. communites.gov.uk
Planning Together: Local Strategic Partnerships and Spatial Planning; A Practice Guide, DCLG, 2007
This guide explains the importance of the relationship between Sustainable Community Strategies and Local Development Frameworks. It explains how key spatial planning objectives for an area, set out in the LFD core strategy, can be ґfully aligned with the priorities of Sustainable Community Strategies.
Links are also made to Local Area Agreements.
www.communities.gov.uk
Guidance for Spatial Planning at Local Level
The Planning Portal is the Government gateway to planning information throughout the UK. It has a Professional User and Government User home pages.
www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/professionals/en/
The Planning Advisory Service aims to facilitate self sustaining change and improvement in the local authority planning sector. PAS is hosted by the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)
The Barker Review of Land Use Planning, 2006
This report by Treasury Economist Kate Barker, makes wide ranging proposals for changes to the planning system, some of which will be taken forward in a White Paper in 2007. The theme of the proposals is to make the planning system more streamlined and responsive to economic conditions. [www.coomunities.gov.uk/pub/876/BarkerReviewofLandUsePlanningFinalReport_id1504876.pdf].
Guidance with a Cultural Angle
Culture in Sustainable Communities Joint Agreement, 2006
An agreement between five of the leading cultural agencies, DCMS and DCLG, to work together on a range of actions to promote culture in the context of the spatial planning. A key intended outcome is that cultural provision and infrastructure will be more firmly embedded in area based planning frameworks and delivery mechanisms at national, regional and local levels.
Developing the Cultural Offer to Sustainable Communities
A comprehensive report, for the Cultural Sector NDPB Steering Group, which focuses on future improvements to planning for culture in the context of the sustainable communities agenda.
www.mla.gov.uk/resources/assets/D/developing_cultural _offer_to_sustainable_communities_10519.pdf
Planning Policy Guidance Relevant to Culture
There is no planning policy statement specifically covering culture. A number of Planning Policy Statements and Planning Policy Guidance Notes cover different aspects of culture.
Open Space, Sport and Recreation, PPG 17, 2002; covers local audits of needs and opportunities, and the setting of local standards. It includes policies for maintaining an adequate supply of open space and sport and recreation facilities. Sets out principles for the planning of new open space and sports facilities in association with new development.
See also Assessing Need and Opportunities; A Companion Guide to PPG 17 (2002)
both at www.communities.gov.uk
Planning for Town Centres, PPS 6, 2005;
This covers policies promoting growth and managing change in town centres, and networks and hierarchies of urban centres. This policy statement applies, among other town centre uses, to the arts, culture and tourism (theatres, museums, galleries, hotels and conference facilities) (see para 1.8).
The Thames Gateway Cultural Planning Toolkit lists other PPS documents which make references to aspects of culture.
Culture Proofing Checklist for Plans, 2005
A list of the elements of cultural provision that should be taken account of by planners and providers in drawing up plans. Originally developed for the draft South East Plan by Oxford Brookes University for Culture South East, but also applicable in other plan making situations.
Creating Cultural Opportunities in Sustainable Communities
This is an innovative national project, funded by the Governments Invest to Save initiative to create a Cultural Planning Toolkit. This will provide a set of tools which ensure culture is embedded in the sustainable communities agenda at local level. The toolkit will build on existing good practice and will be of value to planners in all parts of the country.