Strategic Support for Sport on School Sites

Designing for Sport on School Sites Guidance

We provide a range of facilities and planning services designed to develop strategic planning for sports facilities across England; this includes specific guidance on the design of sporting facilities on schools sites the specific issues therein, including dual use, ie community access.

• Designing For Sport on School Sites (PDF 2mb)
  

Design Guidance

We aim to improve facility design and modernisation to raise standards across the sector, with a series of detailed design guidance notes.

• Design Guidance notes
  

Strategic planning

It is important that any new sports facilities, including those on school sites are planned in conjunction with strategic need and existing leisure facility provision. It is therefore important to ensure that the development of new sports facilities are underpinned by a robust needs and evidence base.

• Planning tools and guidance
  

Playing pitches

We also fulfil our duties as a statutory consultee on playing field redevelopment.

Importantly Partnerships for Schools 'Readiness to Deliver Guidance for Local Authorities in Waves 7 and beyond’(February 2009) includes a requirement for the completion of an up to date Playing Fields Strategy prior to the remit meeting.

The link below provides answers to key questions regarding the requirement and sets out Sport England’s expectations, and thus the standard, of what is meant by an up- to-date Playing Fields Strategy’.

• Up-to-date Playing Fields Strategy (PDF 53kb)
• Further information around Sport England’s role in playing fields
  

Community use agreements

For use by clubs to secure and maintain access to school sites.

A key outcome for club growth and development is to secure and maintain access to school sites

We have prepared a model community use agreement which can be used where new or existing sports facilities need to be secured for the use by the local community on School Sites.

• Template agreement for a school site