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4. FACILITY STANDARDS
In this section, after taking into consideration all the foregoing principles and guidelines, only the main
recommendations with respect to norms and standards have been included. The appendix contains
further detailed information and specifi cations relating to the facilities and open spaces.
4.1 SPACE BUDGETING FOR SPORT FACILITIES
Green and Argue (2007) have developed a recommendation of an allocation of 0,56 ha/1000 persons
provision as a strategic level space budget for sport and recreation at the sub-district or community
level. Local planners together with department of sport and recreation offi cials will have to develop
detailed local plans for all sport facilities based on local needs and interests, and take this space budget
into account. In addition, it is recommended that a further 0,3 - 0,4 ha/1000 persons standard be used
as an overall allocation for the development of the larger multi-purpose or single purpose facilities at
district, metropolitan and regional levels. However, it must be borne in mind that the feasibility of using
this standard has not been tested as yet.
4.2 COMMUNITY HALLS
The only standard for Community Halls that the researchers came across was in Polokwane Municipality,
where the intention is to provide one community hall per 15000 people within a 10 km radius. They thus
utilise a combined standard of population density as well as distance of dwellings. These halls are used
as recreation centres that cater for both sport and recreation activities.
4.3 SPORTS FACILITIES
Combi-playing fi elds: this type of playing fi eld is put to combined use for football, rugby, cricket,
softball etc. at ward level and may be grassed, depending on the availability of water. The Polokwane
Municipality uses the standard of 1 playfi eld per 2500 residents, within a radius of 3km.
Combi-all weather court: The Polokwane Municipality uses the standard of 1 combi-all weather court
per 2300 residents, within a radius of 3km as an upper threshold and 1 combi-all weather court for
basketball and volleyball per 6500 residents within a radius of 3km as a lower threshold.
4.4 CLUSTERING OF FACILITIES
Multi-purpose
Sport Halls
The authors and Green and Argue (2007) recommend that every effort should be made to cluster sport,
recreation and parks in future large metropolitan, district and smaller community developments. The
detailed design of each individual entity must be in terms of the CSIR Red Book (2000) and/or provincial
guidelines. It is important that land allocation for development of these multi-purpose facilities should
be taken from both Public Open Space and the sport and recreation land allocation based on the actual
space for each facility to be provided.
The Polokwane Municipality applies this concept. They regard a stadium as a cluster of facilities that
include the following: grassed playing fi eld that caters for football, rugby, cricket, softball, athletics,
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