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:

Updated Draft Open Space Strategies (September 2008)
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

Following the Mayoral elections in May 2008, the publication schedule for new and revised SPGs, BPGs and other London Plan documents is under review. Please refer to Planning for a Better London for information regarding Mayor of London Boris Johnson's vision for the London Plan and its supporting documents.

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