What is the history of the National Planning Forum?

The National Planning Forum started life as the National Development Control Forum in 1991.

As the name implies the focus was purely on development control and the Forum had a relatively small membership. The Forum was re-launched as the National Planning Forum in 1998 and membership expanded.

The NPF was again re-launched in 2003 after a sabbatical of two years with a part-time Secretary jointly funded by ODPM and the Local Government association.