LDF Learning and Dissemination Project

The challenge of adapting to the new system presented by the Planning and Compensation Act 2004 provided an opportunity for planners in all fields to contribute to the re-making of planning, as something more relevant, creative and dynamic than its previous stereotype.  The POS took this cause to heart, and worked with national partners to maximise the prospects of planning authorities succeeding in the new system. The Society agreed to take on two key roles in this process -

• to identify how authorities can quickly get to grips with the new system and bring forward quality LDFs, and
• to disseminate that learning promptly and widely among practitioners, especially local government planners who lead the new system

The Society's LDF learning and dissemination project was designed to actively address both these objectives. Over the following year the Society tracked the experience of ten pilot authorities in tackling their LDFs, giving them support to maximise their prospects of success, and disseminated their learning in real time to its members and others interested in the effectiveness of our planning system.

 The outputs from the project are available to Society members.