Here is a range of actual examples to illustrate the types
of facilities that new development has provided.
Partnership funding in brown field situations
New sport hall at Easingwold, Hambleton District
Council
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Sporting gain
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The Easingwold
Gatres Centre was formally opened in July 2009. The new sports hall
caters for badminton, five-a-side football, tennis, netball, indoor
cricket, basketball and short-mat bowls. Its construction meant
that the old leisure hall could be turned into a performing arts
and entertainment space.
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Type
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One of the contributing sites was a
residential development of 79 dwellings at Prospect Farm,
Easingwold.
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Local authority
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Hambleton District Council
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Secured by
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A S106 agreement provided £212,000
which the Council used with funding from other residential schemes
to part fund this £1.1m scheme. It was jointly developed by
Hambleton District Council and the Galtres Centre with monies also
coming from Sport England through the Community Investment Fund,
Waste Recycling Environmental (WREN) and donations from a wide
range of community organisations.
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Partnership with the RDA
Tuckingmi; Valley Park
| Sporting gain |
Leisure facilities have been developed which include skate
boarding, a network of cycleways and footpaths and a roller blading
bowl. Further consultations for phase 4 are planned with a
view to providing a community building and additional sports
facilities |
| Proposal |
The scheme is part of a new major redevelopment of an old
mining area in Cornwall consisting of some 17 hectares (40 acres)
and lies within the Cornwall and Isle of Sicily Sport Action
Zone. |
| Location |
Tuckingmill Valley Park
The site is located within Camborne North, a ward with a high
deprivation index within Cornwall and nationally (595th out of
8,414 wards within England.)
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| Description |
Kerrier District Council and Cornwall County Council were key
stakeholders in the development of the scheme. A major consultation
exercises within the area suggested that the project should focus
on providing facilities for a total cross section of the
community. |
| Secured by |
Funded through Regional Development Agency without developer
contributions?The Kerrier District Local Plan Revised Deposit Draft
2002 (with pre-inquiry changes 2004) supports the use of planning
obligations to secure open space provision. The local
authority has prepared a draft SPD, ‘Negotiating Community Benefits
through Planning Obligations’ (2004.) |
| Approval date |
The scheme was commenced in 1996 and phase 3, which included
the installation of leisure facilities, begun in 2003. |
| Local authority |
Kerrier District Council |
Regeneration of 1920s town park through joint
funding
| Sporting gain |
Improvements to 3 grass football pitches including a new
drainage system, 1 new grass pitch, 1 new all weather
Football/Hockey pitch, new floodlights, 13 new changing rooms, new
car park, new community café. Woodland planting and footpath links,
new artworks and entrance gates and new youth and children’s play
facilities. |
| Proposal |
Contributions from a number of developments within one of the
four sub areas. (District is divided into 4 sub areas, all
contributions are pooled within each sub area to be used on schemes
within that sub area) |
| Location |
Kingsway Park, Kirkby-in-Ashfield |
| Description |
Kingsway Park has suffered gradual decline similar to many
parks created in the 1920s. The format of the park was two thirds
formal sport, one third traditional park format.
Total cost of the project was around £1.6million with around
£100,00 from S106 contributions. The rest came from the Football
Foundation, Emda, HLF, Wren, and community funding through The
Friends of Kingsway Park. |
| Secured by |
S 106 funding from the Council/developers have helped to secure
other grant funding tied to various agreements. |
| Approval date |
Schemes commenced in July 2001. Main works completed July
2004. |
| Local authority |
Ashfield District Council, Planning Policy and Projects
Section. |
Social inclusion and community involvement
Sports Development Officer funded as part of sports
package
| Sporting gain |
Sports development officer, sports development plan, community
use of commercial centre, extension of proposed changing facility
to allow community use |
| Proposal |
Commercial five-a-side centre to be built on part of a local
authority playing field |
| Location |
Kendray Playing Fields, Barnsley. |
| Description |
Development of a commercial five-a-side football centre on part
of Kendray Playing Fields in Barnsley, secured a package of
sporting benefits, which helped to kick-start and maintain greater
sporting opportunities for the local community.
This included the part funding of a Sports Development Officer and
the production of a sports development plan for the local
neighbourhood.
Community use of the new commercial centre was also secured,
together with improvements to proposed changing rooms to allow
community use. |
| Secured by |
Legal contract between local authority and developer |
| Approval Date |
November 2000 |
| Local Authority |
Barnsley MBC |
Community Access
to private leisure facilities on redevelopment of aerodrome
Hatfield Aerodrome Site
| Sporting gain |
The community has gained access to a private leisure centre
with floodlit sports pitches on the recently developed University
of Hertfordshire campus. |
| Proposal |
The Master Plan for the site provided for a mix of uses
including business, housing, leisure and community facilities, a
university campus, primary school and transport links. This
included a phased development of 1600 houses. |
| Location |
The Hatfield Aerodrome site is located to the north and west of
Hatfield. |
| Description |
The site covers 322 hectares and is comprised of brownfield and
greenbelt land. |
| Secured by |
A Supplementary Planning Guidance document was produced which
set out the objectives and principles for the redevelopment of the
site. This represented the Master Plan for the site and was
adopted in 1999.
Subsequently the District Plan, which was adopted in 2005, has a
policy OS3 to make provision for play and informal open space in
association with new residential development. The District
has also developed a Cultural Strategy: Enjoying Life, 2003, which
states as an objective ‘to work towards play and community space
alongside new housing’.
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| Approval date |
Completed in 2004. |
| Local authority |
Welwyn Hatfield Council |
Funding of senior project officer to ensure delivery
of quality sport and recreation schemes
| Sporting Gain |
Employment of a full time senior projects officer (landscape
architect), to boost the section’s ability to produce good quality
recreational and environment schemes and draw in grant
funding. |
| Proposal |
To create a full time project officer post, paid for by
interest paid on a holding account for S106 funding. |
| Location |
Planning Policy and Projects Section, Ashfield district
council. |
| Description |
The new post provides important expertise to the section and
improves the quality of grant funding bids and the final project
delivery.
The new officer is not only a landscape architect but is also an
experienced community worker and grant funding applicant.
The cost of the post, in terms of spending S106 interest, is
marginal when compared to the funding drawn in, added value to the
projects and fees that would otherwise have been paid to third
parties. |
| Secured by |
Interest payments on the S106 account. |
| Approval date |
January 2003 |
| Local authority |
Ashfield district council, Planning Policy and Projects
Section. |
Community use and promotion of new
school facility
| Sporting gain |
Community access agreement for a new all weather sports
pitch |
| Proposal |
School applied to build a new full – sized all weather
pitch |
| Location |
Badminton School, Westbury on Trym, Bristol |
| Description |
Badminton School applied for planning permission to build a new
full-sized all weather pitch in its grounds.The council imposed a
planning condition that the school should allow community
access.
A statement of intent was agreed, which subsequently formed a
schedule to a Section 106 agreement. The statement covered
promotion of the pitch to sports clubs and community groups;
booking procedure; times available to the community, and reasonable
hire charges. |
| Secured by |
Section 106 agreement |
| Approval date |
October 2003 |
| Local authority |
Bristol city council |
Commercial leisure centre available for use by
community
| Sporting gain |
Community use of a commercial health and fitness centre. |
| Proposal |
Redevelopment of civil service sports cub into a sports and
health club complex |
| Location |
CSSC Sports Ground, Portsmouth |
| Description |
Secured the use of a new commercial sports and health club for
the wider community, in particular schools and women.
Community use was done in partnership with the city council's
sports development team and provided for the delivery of strategic
sports development activities including the preparation of a
football development program. |
| Secured by |
Section 106 agreement |
| Approval date |
2001 |
| Local authority |
Portsmouth City Council |
Pooled Contributions
Multi use sports pavilion, Royal
Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
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Sporting gain
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The Braywick multi use pavilion opened in 2009
to accommodate Maidenhead Athletics Club and Maidenhead Archers. It
replaced a number of outdated and dilapidated buildings. It
is also available to other cricket and football teams using the
park. The pavilion has a number of sustainable features. It
is fuelled by biomass and has sun-pipes for natural lighting. The
project cost approximately £900k.
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Type
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These contributions have been secured from a
mix of residential and commercial development.
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Local authority
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Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
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Secured by
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Apart from a £70k contribution from Maidenhead
Athletics Club, the project has been entirely funded by S106
contributions collected since 2003/4.
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Pooled contributions to meet
strategic need across Wycombe District
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Sporting gain
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A developer contribution included £13,976 for
community facilities, £8705 towards indoor sport/leisure facilities
and £14,773 for public open space.
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Type
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The redevelopment of the former Ercol
furniture factory in High Wycombe to accommodate 265 dwellings.
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Local authority
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Wycombe District Council
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Secured by
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The District Council’s
guide for developers (revised 2009) refers to Sport
England’s work to assess levels of provision. Analysis has
shown that there is under-provision for swimming, sports halls and
indoor bowls. Developer contributions are pooled to meet this
shortfall in order to secure swimming pool space in High Wycombe
and Marlow, and the provision of a sports hall in the Princes
Risborough area.
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Small site forming a part of a major housing
development providing pooled developer
contributions
| Sporting Gain |
A financial contribution of some £320K towards community
leisure and recreation facilities including on-site open space and
children’s play areas across the larger development. |
| Proposal |
A small site comprising 94 dwellings |
| Location |
West Billingshurst - Frenches Way, a greenfield site which is
approximately six miles south west of Horsham |
| Description |
The development at Frenches Way forms a part of a larger phased
development at West Billingshurst. |
| Secured by |
S106 Agreement. Horsham District Council recently
completed an Open Space Audit and is engaging with stakeholders
prior to the preparation of a supplementary planning document on
Planning Obligations for Community Facilities. It is
anticipated that this will adopted in 2007. The Council has a
Swimming and Recreation Strategy which was adopted in 1996. |
| Approval Date |
Mid-2006 |
| Local Authority |
Horsham District Council |
Small Developments fund new
pavillion
| Sporting Gain |
Sport pavillon |
| Proposal |
Contributions from a large number of residential developments
through out the borough |
| Location |
Gosport Park, Gosport |
| Description |
A new sports pavilion has been created in Gosport Park through
the accumulation of developer contributions from residential
developments of one or more dwellings. |
| Secured by |
Legal agreement |
| Approval Date |
2003 – for pavilion |
| Local Authority |
Gosport |
Development in rural service centres and villages
Contribution towards local leisure
centre in Royston
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Sporting gain
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Royston Leisure Centre is a purpose
built Health and Leisure facility, with a 25 metre indoor swimming
pool, a large fully equipped sports hall and a kinetika gym.
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Type
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50 houses on Melborn Road, Royston
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Local authority
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North Hertsfordshire District Council
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Secured by
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A S106 agreement secured a contribution of
£500,000 towards Royston Leisure Centre
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Pooled contribution providing facilities in rural
service centre
| Sporting gain |
Enhancements to existing playing fields - new tarmac
area/football and target wall, basketball posts and benches. |
| Proposal |
Housing - 13 dwellings |
| Location |
Sites within Tiverton catchment |
| Description |
Implementation of open space SPG which pools all developer
contributions into local catchment areas. Community consultation
completed in October 2003 to identify needs. Improvements to
Wilcombe playing fields where identified. |
| Secured by |
S 106 agreement and Unilateral Undertaking |
| Approval date |
2004 |
| Local authority |
Mid Devon District Council |
Small and medium sized housing site
Refurbishment of local skate park, Guildford Borough
Council
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Sporting gain
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A developer contribution of £229K was used to
establish a LEAP within 0.9ha of open space and to refurbish an
off-site skate park at Stoke Park.
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Type
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The redevelopment
of a 4.92ha site, formerly
DEFRA office buildings,to provide
200 homes.
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Local authority
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GuildfordBorough Council
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Secured by
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S106 Agreement.
Guildford’s SPD on Infrastructure(2006) supported the use
of planning obligations to take account of the increased
pressure on the physical and social infrastructure of an
area. The Friends of Stoke Park agreed in February 2009 to
survey the skate park and recommend improvements.
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Sports facilities secured across
Islington
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Sporting gain
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£750,000 to be used towards the reprovision of
sporting facilities within the locality of the development.
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Type
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Hornsey Road Baths at Hornsey Road, Islington
– the refurbishment and redevelopment of the site to provide a mix
of uses comprising 206 residential units (including 62 affordable),
Class B1 use, Sure Start facility, Class A3 (cafe) and the change
of use of listed buildings to community theatre and associated
works.
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Local authority
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LondonBorough of Islington
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Secured by
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All residential and commercial development
make a contribution towards shortfall of sports hall provision and
projected shortfall in swimming pool provision, Islington’s Planning Obligations (S106) SPD,
adopted 2009.
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Mixed use scheme on former Electrolux
site
| Sporting gain |
The provision of three equipped play areas together with the
transfer of associated open space to the Council. In
addition, there was a commitment of £52K for 10 year’s maintenance
of the play areas, £70K for 10 year’s maintenance of the open
space, and £84K as a contribution towards a new community
centre. |
| Proposal |
This is a mixed-use scheme with a residential development of
498 dwellings. |
| Location |
Electrolux site, Oakley Road
The site was formerly owned by Electrolux and is located some
two miles north west of Luton city centre.
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| Description |
The site covers some 40 hectares and was originally occupied by
a industrial complex. The residential element was built in
two phases, 233 units in phase 1 and 265 units in phase 2.
The remainder of the site occupied by Electrolux offices;
only the industrial element was closed. |
| Secured by |
S106 Agreement made jointly by Electrolux and Barratt Homes.
Policy LC2 of the second deposit draft of the local plan
2001-2011 requires an appropriate financial or other contribution
towards open space provision. The local authority is
preparing draft guidance as SPD with its new Local Development
Framework.
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| Approval date |
Phase 1 approved in 1998 and completed in 2000; and phase 2
approved in 2002 and completed in 2004 |
| Local authority |
Luton Borough Council |
Mixed-use development on former
school site secures on-site and off-site benefits for
sport
| Sporting gain |
On-site playing field provision (2.6shectares) with full
community use and enhanced drainage specification. New leisure
centre to replace disused facility.
New primary school playing field to have community use and enhanced
drainage provision.
Off-site financial contribution towards qualitative improvements to
existing playing fields in the catchment, based on priorities
identified in the Rochford Playing Pitch Assessment (2002). |
| Proposal |
Mixed use development comprising Residential, Neighbourhood
Centre, Public Open Space, New Primary School and Leisure
Centre |
| Location |
Park School, Rawreth Lane, Rayleigh, Essex |
| Description |
Redevelopment of former secondary school site which closed in
1996. Playing rields (5.5 hectares) disused since that time and
leisure centre attached to former school closed in 2002.
Mixed use development would provide funding to supply new community
playing fields, new sports centre, new primary school and off-site
qualitative improvements to nearby playing fields via priorities
identified in local playing pitch strategy. |
| Secured by |
Planning Conditions and s.106 obligation |
| Approval date |
June 2003 |
| Local authority |
Rochford District Council |
Gained through non residential development
Enhancement of the Riverside Ice and Leisure Centre
in Chelmsford
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Sporting gain
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Pooled developer contributions of £16,078 (as
at November, 2009) have been secured towards an identified need to replace and enhance its
primary leisure centre, the Riverside Ice and Leisure Centre, which
serves a strategic sport and recreation function across the Borough
and beyond.
Chelmsford Borough Council has estimated that
funding of around £1.5M is required for a new programme of
improvements at the Leisure Centre which will be carried out in
parallel with previously approved essential maintenance and repair
work.
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Type
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Residential and commercial development
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Local authority
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Chelmsford Borough Council
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Secured by
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A S106 Agreement. Planning
Contributions SPD, 2009 provides for strategic sport and
recreational provision.
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Office Development provides new skate park
identified by youth groups
| Sporting Gain |
Football pitch, multi-use games area, skating facility |
| Proposal |
Office redevelopment on former factory site |
| Location |
Aviator Park, Station Road, Addlestone, Surrey |
| Description |
1.3 hectare site transferred to the local authority with the
developer funding the provision of a full size football pitch,
multi-use games area and skating facility. The skating facility
came out of consultation with local youth groups |
| Secured by |
Legal agreement |
| Approval Date |
2003 |
| Local Authority |
Runnymede borough council |
Commercial dvelopment contributes towards sports
facilities
| Sporting gain |
A contribution of some £30K was made towards sports facilities.
The amount was spilt to offer £20K to enable the relocation
of a bowling club and improved storage for equipment and machinery,
and £10K potentially towards a BMX track; this is to be finalised
after consultation with the community. |
| Proposal |
This commerical development includes a two storey building
housing a veterinary clinic and A1/A3 retail units |
| Location |
Bicton Heath is located to the north of Shrewsbury. |
| Description |
The site previously was occupied by a public house and is
located in the vicinity of a shopping centre. Planning permission
was granted for this commercial development in 2003 |
| Secured by |
S106 Agreement
Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Local Plan (2001) policy TLR8
provides for open space provision on new residential development.
The authority has an adopted SPG, Provision of Recreational
Open Space with Residential Development (2000).
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| Approval date |
Completed |
| Local authority |
Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council |
If you know of other examples of facilities being secured
through new development that you think others would be interested
in. Please send them to planningforsport@sportengland.org