Living Places has announced a series of national seminars between planners and culture leaders in an attempt to promote the Culture and Sport Planning Toolkit.

The toolkit was developed by Living Places to help ensure consistency and best practice in planning across the country.

The events have been designed to help officers with responsibility for planning and policy development in culture, sport and regeneration.

The talks will include sessions on how play provision has an increasingly important role in local and regional strategic plans and how officers can improve their capacity to map and prioritise culture and sports provision so it best meets the needs of local people.

Roy Clare, chair of Living Places and chief executive of MLA, said: "These seminars are a great opportunity for planners and culture and sports policy makers to think and act in a joined up way and develop a shared vision for how we build new communities.

"There's determination amongst Living Places partners to ensure that when we plan the roads and houses that make communities, we need to make culture and sports provision an essential ingredient too. The events offer us the chance to create a shared strategic sense of what can be achieved."

The events are being supported by the Town and Country Planning Association and will provide planners and policy makers with a mix of expert analysis, detailed case studies of effective culture and sports planning, and in some regions visits to see effective place shaping in action. Planners will also get CPD credits for attending the events.

The first seminar will be held in London on 1 October, followed by events in Manchester (14 October) and Birmingham (16 October).

Living Places is a coalition of five culture and sports agencies – Arts Council England; Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE); English Heritage; Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA); and Sport England.