Norfolk County Council uses Limehouse Publisher for Local Transport Plan

"Government assessment of our Provisional LTP has placed it in the highest category as "Very Promising". This grade was awarded to the top 16 local authorities submitting LTPs and determined which authorities were to receive an additional 12.5% performance funding for 2006/07. We received a "Very Promising" grade in every one of the six assessment criteria. Only one other local authority achieved this grading across the board of assessment criteria. Additionally, we received the most "Very Promising" grading in terms of sub-criteria (25/32), with York achieving "Very Promising" in only 22 of the 32 sub-criteria. This suggests that we submitted the best local transport plan in the country, out of 82 local authorities. This has helped to attract an additional £1.7m in reward funding for our transport improvements.

I have no doubt that the use of Limehouse Publishing helped us produce such a high quality LTP. In contrast to what can often happen when producing such a complex document, key features of the process were:

• Several people could work on their chapters simultaneously
• It was much more controlled and better managed, with no uncertainty over which version we were working on and no versions going backwards and forwards between ourselves and the graphic designers
• We did not need to employ graphic designers to work on a Microsoft word version. This saved money, but was most valuable in providing us with more time as ordinarily we would need to send the graphic designers our Microsoft word version at least 3 or 4 weeks before the printing deadline.
• We were able to work on the document right up to the deadline for printing. This ensured that staff were much calmer with no last minute panics (in fact, the evening before we went to print, the team went out for a team meal in Norwich)
• We therefore had much greater confidence in the production process".