Sports Facilities
Setting up and running sports facilities can provide more complications than providing other community facilities. The reasons for this include the need for standardised dimensions of pitches and other surfaces, materials used and specific safety considerations.
While the list is constantly being changed and updated, the following list comprises some of the written guidance notes available from Sport England which should be consulted while developing your plans for a community sports facility:
- Access for disabled people
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Car parking
- Landscape design
- Comparative sizes – pitches and courts
- Cycling
- Designing for sport on school sites
- Environmental sustainability
- Fitness and exercise spaces
- Floors for indoor sports
- Natural turf for sport
- Pavilions and clubhouses
- Sports hall design
- Swimming pools
- Village and community halls