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

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