Linking your Local Development Framework (LDF) with your LSP

The development of ‘new LAAs’ from 2008 creates an opportunity for local authorities and their partners to better connect and align the goals in their LAA and the Local Development Framework (LDF) with their Sustainable Community Strategy.

The Sustainable Community Strategy should be the vehicle for identifying and addressing the key long-term challenges facing an area, with the LDF reinforcing it by setting out the key spatial strategies for the area.   The LAA should then act as the ‘delivery plan’ for the Sustainable Community Strategy, setting out the joint commitments of LSP partners to deliver change on the ground.  In practice all this presents significant challenges for partners trying to achieve this on the ground.

The aim of this learning set is to provide a forum for LSP managers and members trying to make these links to explore the issues in more detail. The agendas of the meetings will be determined by those attending, but we anticipate that key issues will include:

• What is the role of spatial planning in ‘place shaping’?
• How to build effective links between your Sustainable Community Strategy and LDF?
• How does this all fit with the new LAA framework?
• How to involve local stakeholders in these processes?

An information sheet about this set can be downloaded here  54Kb:

Lead: John Houghton John.Houghton@sharedintelligence.net