Local Strategic Partnership (LSP)

A partnership between the different parts of the public sector, with private business and the third sector, in order to deliver services more effectively.

LSPs should rationalise and simplify other local partnership arrangements and work with neighbourhood-based partnerships. LSPs are responsible for the development and implementation of the Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreements.

Further information

Published in January 2007, Planning Together: Local Strategic Partnerships and Spatial Planning - a practical guide (pdf) gives guidance about the collaboration and joint working between LSPs and the new spatial planning process for local authorities, planners, LSP coordinators and elected members.

Published in 2006, Strong and Prosperous Communities - The Local Government White Paper aimed to give local people and local communities more influence and power to improve their lives through a rebalancing of the relationship between central government, local government, and local people. 

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