Knight, Kavanagh & Page (KKP) is pleased to have been awarded a third consecutive contract from North Lanarkshire Council. Following successful completion of the Council's playing pitch strategy in 2006 and the recent extensive open space assessment and audit for the district, KKP has been commissioned to prepare its sports and sports facilities strategy.

Building upon contact networks already established and further extensive consultation, we shall prepare strategies that provides a clear direction and a framework for delivery of sport in North Lanarkshire. The final strategy will:

• Clearly outline the key issues and challenges facing sport in North Lanarkshire.
• Provide a clear direction for the future of sport in North Lanarkshire.
• Outline a clear platform for partnership engagement and working, with clarity of roles and responsibilities.
  Identify existing good practice, which should be built upon.
• Detail the facility network and mode of operation required to successfully implement the vision for sport in North Lanarkshire.

KKP is ideally placed to deliver this project. In addition to our knowledge of North Lanarkshire, we have extensive experience of sports and sports facilities strategies - most recently for Birmingham, Bridgend, Sunderland, Telford & Wrekin and Coventry plus a thorough understanding of the national, regional and local context within which the strategy must be developed via our work analysing and evaluating the most recent national participation survey for sportscotland.

Ian Murdoch, North Lanarkshire Council's Learning and Leisure Support Services Manager said, "Over recent years we have built an excellent working relationship with the team at KKP. They continue to produce quality results, demonstrating an in-depth knowledge of sports and open spaces, strategically applied to the context in North Lanarkshire but also the wider Scottish environment. Following an extensive tender process, we had no hesitation in awarding this latest contract to them."

For further details, please contact David McHendry, Principal Consultant, Email: david.mchendry@kkp.co.uk