Best Practice Guidance

The London Plan provides the Mayor's strategic planning framework. The Mayor is producing more detailed strategic guidance on issues which cannot be addressed in sufficient detail in the plan through Best Practice Guidance (BPG) and Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) documents. They are initially published in draft for consultation.

Printed copies, alternative formats/languages

Published BPG documents

The following BPGs are available for download:

Wheelchair Accessible Housing (September 2007)
Health Issues in planning (June 2007)
Managing the Night Time Economy (March 2007)
The control of dust and emissions from construction and demolition (November 2006)
Tomorrow’s Suburbs: Tools for making London more sustainable (June 2006)
Development Plan Policies for Biodiversity (November 2005)
Guide to Preparing Open Space Strategies (March 2004)
Supermarket Sites (draft, January 2004)

BPG publication schedule

Public Realm Strategy
Travel Plans
London Regional Sports Facilities

Urban Design Principles and Public Realm Strategy

The Mayor will work with strategic partners to develop a coherent and strategic approach to the public realm. Boroughs should develop local objectives and implementation programmes for their public realm. In doing so they should involve stakeholders, including their local communities.
To be published as a Design for London publication

Travel Plans

The Mayor will, in collaboration with strategic partners, produce additional guidance to boroughs on preparing Travel Plans.
Draft publication spring 2007
Final publication summer 2007
To be published as a TfL Technical Note

London Regional Sports Facilities

London needs to develop a wide range of high quality but affordable sports facilities, which are accessible to all sections of the community, including disabled people. The boroughs’ audits of existing provision and assessments of needs, required by PPG17, will ensure that new provision is focused in areas with the greatest need and co-ordinated across boundaries. Development of sports facilities in commercial schemes should be encouraged and made accessible to the local community where possible. In collaboration with boroughs, the Mayor will prepare good practice guidance on protecting and enhancing London's regional sports facilities.
Draft publication late 2007
Final publication 2008

Printed copies, alternative formats and languages

Printed copies of BPG documents are available at the following costs:

Draft version: £10
Final version: £15

Please see the publications page for information about purchasing publications.

For alternative formats and languages, please contact the Public Liaison Unit (tel. 020 7983 4100, Minicom 020 7983 4458). BPG documents are available on request in alternative formats - large print, Braille, disc, sign language video or audio-tape version - and the following languages:

Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
Greek
Gujarati
Hindi
Punjabi
Turkish
Urdu
Vietnamese

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