Better Places to Play through Planning

This Play England guidance supports planning and transport authorities to ensure children and young people can access high quality, local play spaces and playable public space.

The publication, funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), gives detailed guidance on setting local standards for access, quantity and quality of playable space, signposting benchmark standards for different types of local authority. It also shows how provision for better play opportunities can be promoted in planning policies and processes. Giving detail of how local development frameworks and planning control can be utilised in favour of child-friendly communities.

A steering group including representatives from Communities and Local Government, the Department for Children, Schools and Families, DCMS and CABE Space, worked with the writing team that included Issy Cole-Hamilton, Paul Greatorex, Graham Jones, Len Croney and Catherine Prisk, to produce the document.

The guide is only available as a PDF file which can be downloaded here free of charge.