Stoke-on-trent sport and physical activity strategy 2009-2016

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Key Objectives up to 2016 Priorities up to 2012Policy: Support the development of sports clubs and organisations.Strengthen sports and activity clubs across the City. Support clubs to develop their memberships (via more coaches, facility availability etc.)and to develop their school-club links.More support to be made available in the more deprived areas, focussing on thosesports/activities most likely to be successful at the local level.Work with National Governing Bodies to being to develop new model clubs, which canattract new participation, and which may be single or multi-sport.Ensure all projects are sustainable in the long-term.Develop North Staffordshire Coaching Hub to support coach education and developmentof sports activities across the City.Support the development of more volunteers.Support clubs in their volunteer and coach programmes to retain and recruit more.Provide courses and support via Sport Across Staffordshire’s volunteer recruitmentschemes and North Staffordshire Coaching Hub.PLACESPolicy: Ensure residents have access to a hierarchy of sports and recreation facility provision.Establish a hierarchy of facility provision for sportsfacilities and green spaces:• CSP – attracting people from the sub-region.Existing examples include Fenton Manor andCentral Forest Park.Maximise community use through the schools reorganisation programme and BSF, andseek partnership funding to support and examine alternative ways of operating /maintaining services including re-provision.Maximise opportunities for sport and community physical activity through partnership withthe FE and HE sectors. Specialist sports facilities providing for performance andNortoft Partnerships Ltd <strong>Stoke</strong>-on-Trent Page | 62Sport & Physical Activity Strategy 2009 – 2016October 2009
Key Objectives up to 2016Priorities up to 2012• Super-hub – providing high quality performancevenues for specialist sport, such as thegymnastics centre at Burslem, and developmentof a Sports Village at Fenton.excellence (city-wide facilities) may be particularly appropriate.• Hub – usually a multi-sport site/cluster with arange of sporting opportunities, often involving arange of providers. May also apply to sportscolleges and specialist schools, leading clubsites, and multi-pitch sites for outdoor sports.Includes the district parks such as Hanley orLongton.• Satellite – Sites primarily developed forsecondary schools or similar, which also provideimportant local opportunities through dual use.Existing sites include Trentham High.Neighbourhood parks are appropriate to thiselement of the hierarchy. These may include aMUGA.• Local – primary schools, community centres,local single pitch or informal playing fields, andlocal parks, which may include some playequipment.Review the network of swimming pools for the City: public, private, and on school sites.Address issues associated with distribution and quality. Develop a programme ofinvestment and refurbishment with partners such as Building Schools for the Future, andwhere appropriate closure, replacement or future re-provision of services includingalternative ways of operating services such as partnerships with the private sector orleisure trust. Determine future funding scenarios and options.Review and increase the network of sports halls. Enhance the design of educationfacilities for community use with developer contributions and other resources to matchcommunity need, and deliver some specialist sports hall venues e.g. badminton andgymnastics. Begin implementation. This will also include ensuring that new facilitiesbenefit from a robust business case to support viability and ensure sustainability.Integrate the hierarchy proposals with standards of provision into appropriate planningpolicies, including via a city-wide Supplementary Planning Document for developers’contributions, and Area Action Plans.Identify potential sites for developing the major facilities where the locations have not yetbeen identified.Ensure that the local level facilities are driven by local communities, and that newproposals are led by the Neighbourhood Management teams with the support of localcouncillors.Nortoft Partnerships Ltd <strong>Stoke</strong>-on-Trent Page | 63Sport & Physical Activity Strategy 2009 – 2016October 2009
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6. The 2012 Olympics will provide a
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500 completed responses were receiv
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22. It is worth noting that no swim
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Key Objectives up to 2016 Prioritie
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Key Objectives up to 2016 Prioritie
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• Local - primary schools, commun
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SiteFentonManorFacilitySitePoolHall
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Central Forest Park Skate park Reta
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Neighbourhood Area ProposalsEastern
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Northern48. This area has a high pr
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Other facilities - location not yet
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Site Facility Proposal to meet comm
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Mount PleasantParkTennis courtsPlay
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Western58. This area has more young
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Next Steps61. The Strategy facility
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TABLE OF CONTENTSSECTION 1: .......
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SECTION 1:BACKGROUND AND CONTEXTInt
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on-Trent strives to achieve. The ma
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Strategic Direction16. The objectiv
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Figure 1:Neighbourhood Management A
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Page 72 and 73: Economic regeneration76. The econom
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Page 76 and 77: SECTION 2SPORTS DEVELOPMENT &PHYSIC
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Page 110 and 111: sport and dance clubs. For young pe
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Page 124 and 125: Consultation21. The theoretical mod
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also the subject of a parallel proj
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Household survey57. The household s
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Children and Young People’s Surve
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support swimming provision should t
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Future provision for community swim
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LONGTON HSPOOLLONGTON LEISURECENTRE
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Figure 10:Pools with community use
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Trent’s pools were able to match
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• New and refurbished facilities
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Name of FacilityExistingmanagement(
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94. The map suggests that, in relat
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ConsultationE lected Mayor’s Gree
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• Norton Table Tennis Club is bas
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University. The Fenton Manor site i
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Figure 14:Sports Halls - proposalsN
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Name of FacilityProposalSize (no.Ba
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Standards for new provision130. It
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Synthetic Turf Pitches (STPs)Introd
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• England Hockey permits the use
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Condition of facilities144. STPs re
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150. As the above map shows travel
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Schools reorganisation programmeBac
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Household Survey162. The main issue
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Figure 20:Large size STPs and typeN
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RecommendationsFacility list171. Ne
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Sports Specific FacilitiesIntroduct
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Athletics Tracks and Indoor Trainin
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ConsultationNational Governing Body
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north and one site in the south of
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available to registered members. Th
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Assessment222. The table below illu
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Figure 26:Household Survey - health
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Schools reorganisation programme -
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specialist equipment or dedicated t
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Indoor TennisIntroduction241. Tenni
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Figure 29:Tennis - indoor courts in
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Standards of provision and develope
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Figure 30:Outdoor tennis courts in
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Figure 31:Outdoor tennis courts, th
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Figure 32:Household survey - outdoo
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community use), so the current scho
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Standards of provision288. Increase
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Figure 34: Indoor bowls - comparato
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304. A key issue however will be wh
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Figure 36:Bowling green listName of
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Figure 38:Outdoor bowls - household
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333. All sites should meet the desi
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secondary school aged, and registra
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Figure 40:Travel time to nearest go
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ConsultationElected Mayor’s Green
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enable the development of more golf
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BoxingSa/LThe main facilities for b
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equipment. These facilities may als
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TriathlonSaVolleyballSaWrestlingSaC
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Figure 44:Squash courtsNortoft Part
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Local Community FacilitiesIntroduct
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Assessment366. All the centres were
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371. On average, 10% of people use
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RecommendationsFacility list380. Wi
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Figure 47:Dance StudiosNortoft Part
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Figure 48:Martial Arts FacilitiesNo
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Skate Parks and Sports Courts/Multi
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Figure 50:Sports Courts/MUGAs with
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Sports courts and MUGAs415. A total
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Figure 52:Activities enjoyed by chi
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Recommendations431. Existing facili
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programme(s) offered and the staff
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Existing facilitiesFacilityDimensio
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SECTION 7:PLAYING PITCH STRATEGYInt
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Figure 1: Overall pattern of change
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Methodology13. The steps taken to d
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Table 2:Estimated population for 20
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The demand for pitches20. A review
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• An assessment of the balance in
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Figure 3:Participation in football
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Figure 4:Clubs with more than 6 tea
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Figure 5:Football sites with secure
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Figure 7:Junior Football PitchesNor
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Grass vs synthetic turf pitches51.
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Figure 9: Forecast balance in suppl
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Figure 10:School sites and pitchesS
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Provision by area71. The area summa
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Figure 14:Football sites in Norther
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Figure 15:Forecast balance in suppl
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Figure 20:Football sites in Western
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Football Site Quality and Managemen
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Standards of provision for football
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Figure 21:Cricket PitchesNortoft Pa
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126. Staffordshire Cricket’s Faci
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Balance in supply and demand131. In
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Burslem, JG Meakins and Norton Cric
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South Western143. There are current
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Rugby UnionOverall152. There are fo
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Figure 25:Rugby sites in and around
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Planning policies170. The following
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Determining the value of off-site c
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• The pitches to be used by the c
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anticipated including the publishin
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Community UseageSenior FootballJuni
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Figure 3:Other facility proposalsOt
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Review and monitoring7. The Strateg
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