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

Map 31: Travel time map – sports halls
Map 32: Personal share – sports halls
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Personal Share of Sports Halls
Map 32 indicates areas within the borough which have
high personal share (red) and low personal share (green).
The map shows that residents who live in the South
of the Borough have less personal share of sports halls
compared to wards such as Queensbury and Fryent.
Compared to London, Brent residents have a personal
share of 0.76m² compared to London’s average of
0.89m² and the national average of 1.43 m² per resident.
Travel Time
(minutes walking)
0.42 - 4.632
4.633 - 8.844
8.845 - 13.056
13.057 - 17.268
17.269 - 21.48
Facilities Planning Model
Sports Halls Run 1- key findings -
current population and provision
The findings of the Facilities Planning
Model (FPM) run for 2007 identifies
that the capacity of Brent’s sports halls
is above the London average. In fact, it
is the second highest level of sports hall
capacity across the study area (the seven
neighbouring boroughs). However,
because of issues of accessibility, demand
outstrips capacity considerably across the study area as a
whole.
The FPM only includes sports halls with some public
accessibility and over 459 m2 in size (3 badminton
courts), as it is stated that sports halls need to
be this size to make a significant impact on
the community. However, smaller halls, as
identified earlier, do play a part in meeting
some local demand. This means that,
in total for this study, there were 48
badminton courts located on ten sites.
Currently within Brent, unmet demand stands at 28.6%
of the population - this equates to approximately 18
publicly accessible badminton courts. The South East of
the borough has the highest shortage at present and
17% of satisfied demand is imported from Westminster,
with 15% of demand imported from Kensington &
Chelsea. Some residents living in Welsh Harp and
Dollis Hill wards live outside a 1 mile catchment of a
publicly accessible sports hall. Graph 7 illustrates the
boroughs population that has access to sports halls, and
it shows that 14% of the borough do not have access
to any publicly accessible sport halls. Compared to the
neighbouring boroughs, this is only better than Barnet
and Hammersmith and Fulham’s score.