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Women's Design Service and Queen Mary College now organise LWPF in partnership. We normally have three major seminars each year.

LWPF provides a vital information network for women planning officers, planning students, educationalists and community and voluntary organisations involved with environment and equality issues. It aims to change and improve the position of women in relation to planning issues; to provide a the opportunity for women planners to share experiences of barriers and good practice and to promote feminist thinking in planning departments.

During the last five years LWPF has held regular forum events and debated a wide range of contemporary issues from a gender perspective including urban regeneration, public surveillance systems, Unitary Development Plans, Best Value, town centre management, public and community art, community safety, women as planners, and planning education. These events have been written up in the Women's Design Service Broadsheet Series.

LWPF is planning a new series of workshop meetings and other activities to take it beyond the millennium. All meetings will be organised to allow maximum time for debate in small groups and will take place in fully accessible venues. Attendance at LWPF events can contribute to Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

LWPF is now co-ordinated by:

The Department of Geography
Queen Mary College
University of London
E1 4NS

Tel: 020 7882 3363

Website: www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/lwpf/lwpfinfo.html
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