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combi-all weather courts, clubhouse with seminar rooms, fenced in and provided at the rate of one
cluster per 50000 residents within a radius of 10 km.
4.5 GUIDANCE FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO ACHIEVE A ‘QUALITY ASSURED FACILITY’
As part of the local government Comprehensive Performance Assessment indicators, as in the case of
Sport England, it is proposed that there are 3 indicators focused on sport. One of these indicators is
concerned with the percentage of the population within a 20-minute travel time to a range of sports
facilities, where at least one facility has attained a recognised quality assurance standard.
4.5.1 The Accessibility Indicator
“% of population that are within 20 minutes travel time (Urban areas – by walk; Rural areas – by
motor vehicle) of a range of 3 different sport facility types of which one has achieved a quality assured
standard.
Indicative Lower Threshold = 30% of population
Indicative Higher Threshold = 50% of population.”
4.5.2 Reason for the ‘Accessibility Indicator’
Increasing the opportunity for people to become more active underpins one of the core aims of SRSA’s
‘Mass Participation Programme’ in seeking to increase participation. Easy access to quality sports
facilities is one of the fundamental building blocks in providing the opportunity for getting people active
and improving the health of the nation. This indicator looks at access in terms of travel time to quality
facilities, using a walking travel time for urban areas, and a drive travel time for rural areas.
Quality is diffi cult to measure but is seen as a refl ection of how well managed the facilities are. Quality in
this indicator is not necessarily an indicator of the standard of the facilities, but more about the approach
to managing the resources effi ciently and effectively to provide as positive customer experience as
possible given the facility mix and condition.
Together with physical access, the range of facility types is also essential in giving people a choice of
different facilities. Greater choice in the different types of facilities which people have access to, and
the proximity of these facilities to where they live will increase the likelihood that people will visit and
become more active. The indicator is set at a choice of at least three different facility types, of which
one must meet a recognised quality assurance standard, out of a list of the following list of (X number)
facility types:
Pools, halls, health & fi tness, grass pitches, artifi cial turf pitches and golf courses etc.
4.5.3 What Quality assurance standards can be applied?
Sport England commissioned independent research that had the brief to provide an analysis and
evaluation of quality assurance standards that are known to be in use within the Leisure industry. Each
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