Sport England

Cookies | Contact us

Search site

• About Us

• What we do
• Our news
• How we are structured
• The latest from the pitch
• Recognition of sports and NGBs
• Sport England conferences
• London 2012
• Places People Play
• Major projects
• Annual Report
• Tenders and contracts
• Terms of Trade
• Transparency reporting spend
• Freedom of Information
• Enquiries
• Contact us
  • Who we are and what we do
  • What we spend and how we spend
  • What are our priorities
  • How we make decisions
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Lists and Registers
  • The services we offer
• Strategy consultation
• Parliamentary Fellowship
• Give sport a go
• Image library
• SPOTY
• Top 10 tips
• How far can you go?
• Stay inspired

The services we offer

Advice on developing sporting policy, including:

- creating regional and sub-regional policy
- creating local policy
- examples of core strategy policies, and
- guiding principles for sport and spatial planning

can be viewed on our developing policies for sport section.

Sport England publishes detailed design guidance notes for a whole host of facilities.

Our Sports Facilities Calculator (SFC) is a planning tool which helps to estimate the amount of demand for key community sports facilities that is created by a given population.

Active Places is a public database of sports facilities in England, which helps get people active by providing free information on where to take part and by showing them where to go on a map.

Active Places Power provides a planning tool for sports facilities. It is designed to assist in investment decisions and the development of infrastructure improvement strategies for sport. You will have to subscribe to use this tool.

Sport England publishes a guide to the production of playing pitch strategies called Towards a Level Playing Field.

Advice on securing improved sport and recreation facilities in their areas through  planning contributions can be viewed in our Planning Contributions Kitbag.

Other planning tools and guidance notes can be ac.cessed on our Planning Tools and Guidance page

Since August 1996 Sport England has been a ‘statutory consultee’ on planning applications affecting playing fields. This means that Sport England must be consulted by the local planning authority (LPA) when a relevant planning application is received. We have produced a guidance note for local authorities explaining these consultation arrangements.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, Sport England must disclose any information it holds to anyone who asks for it, unless an exemption applies. You can find out more on our Freedom of Information page

Share, bookmark and save Sport England articles and features. What's this?