Planning for Sport and Active Recreation Facilities ... - Brent Council

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Facilities Planning Model
Sport England’s Facilities Planning Model (FPM) provides
a very comprehensive assessment of levels of supply and
demand for Sports halls and swimming pools only.
The FPM allows an estimation of demand across Brent
and our seven neighbouring boroughs (referred to as the
Study Area). The Model uses current population statistics
for all eight Boroughs and population projections for all
in 2016. The current population statistics that the FPM
have used is based on a population of 274,000 increasing
to 293,400 in 2016, a conservative growth estimate of
19,000 people (6.9% increase).
Detailed current publicly accessible facility provision is
included within the run data together with confirmed
future publicly accessible facility provision for all eight
Boroughs. A strategic modelling tool is then used to
estimate the level of demand for sports facilities within
the local population, comparing this with the supply
of facilities within a given local area. The model takes
into account the size, age and location of the facilities
and highlights any deficiencies in facility provision. The
technique can also be used to model ‘what if’ scenarios,
for instance, the impact of increases in population, the
closure of individual facilities, and the opening of new
facilities.
The FPM estimates ‘demand’ for a sport at the centroid
of enumeration districts (EDS) based on participation
rates and frequency per week in each of the 5/6 age
bands for both males and females, scaled down to the
proportion of demand in the peak period. This produces
a figure for demand at each EDS expressed in ‘visits per
week in the peak period.’ For swimming pools there are
six age bands and five for sports halls for both males
and females. These are considered with frequency and
duration of visit rates together with catchment (access by
either car, foot or public transport) and a distance decay
factor – which is all applied to the population.
The FPM defines ‘unmet demand’ as the demand which
is located outside the catchment area of a facility or is
unmet because the facilities are full, and there simply isn’t
enough sports halls or swimming pools in the borough
compared to how many people require them.
Personal Share
This tool shows the personal share a resident has of their
nearest sports facility. Using distance and capacity, it
will show whether local residents potentially have good
access to facilities. For example, in an urban area, with
lots of facilities and a medium population, the personal
share could be good. However if there was a larger
population and fewer facilities, then personal share
would be poor due to reduced capacity and increased
demand. This tool doesn’t take account of ward
boundaries, just the nearest facility.
Sports Facility Calculator
The Sports Facilities Calculator (SFC) is a planning tool
which helps to estimate the amount of demand for
swimming pools, sports halls and indoor bowl facilities
that is created by a given population. The SFC does
not take into account any existing supply of facilities
including those within neighbouring boroughs, which
might already be taking the demand for the facilities, and
does not take account of the capacity and availability of
facilities, cross boundary movement, travel networks and
attractiveness of facilities. The SFC is designed to be used
to estimate the facility needs of discrete populations,
such as sports halls and swimming pools, created by a
new community of a residential development.
The SFC gives an estimate of how much it would cost
to provide average facilities that are endorsed by Sport
England (but excludes site abnormal costs, land costs and
VAT). The SFC building costs of facilities can be used to
apply for development contributions from developers.
Definitions of Type of Use
A number of the planning tools refer to different types of
use which determines how accessible facilities are to the
public. These different types of use are explained below:
Pay and Play: The main means of public access to the
facility is on payment of a charge, although the facility
may also have a membership scheme, and it may be
possible to block book the facility for a specific activity or
for lessons.
Sports Club/Community Association: The main
means of public access to the facility is via sports clubs or
community associations, which book it for use by their
members. Membership of the club or association is based
on a particular sport or community group and is not
based on performance criteria or on a particular facility.
Registered Membership: The main public access to
the facility is by membership and members usually pay a
joining fee as well as a monthly or annual subscription.
Publicly accessible facilities: This is the joint term for
facilities that are available through Pay and Play, Sports
Club/Community Association usage and Registered
Membership.
Private use: The facility cannot be used by the
public, either through pay and play basis, sports club /
community association or an open registered membership
scheme, except when the facility may be used for
competition and such groups are playing against the
owner of the site.