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BOURNEMOUTH AND POOLE SPORTS FACILITIES STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN 2014-26 BUILT FACILITIES ASSESSMENT DECEMBER, 2013 CONTENTS Section Page Introduction 3 Assessment of Sports and Recreation Facilities 7 Sports Halls 16 Swimming Pools 94 Indoor and Outdoor Bowls 148 Netball 180 Indoor and Outdoor Tennis 222 Multi-use Games Areas 273 Athletics Tracks 301 Squash Courts 339 Golf 366 Fitness (Gyms) 389 Bournemouth Ice Rink 412 Appendix 1 Estimating the Impact of Non-residents on the U 413 of Facilities Appendix 2 Provision Standards 423 1 - 2 - Introduction This Built Facilities Assessment report forms one of a suite of documents which provide evidence for or ‘sit behind’ the Sports Strategy for Bournemouth and Poole. Figure 1: Bournemouth and Poole Sports Strategy Documents The report utilises information and data set out or referenced in the ‘sister’ documents to provide an assessment and analysis of existing built facility provision, demand and gaps in provision and the identification of future needs. It therefore provides the link for built sports facilities between evidence collected through audits, surveys, consultation and data analysis and the Sports Strategy itself which will set out the strategic approach to sports facility and pitch provision in Bournemouth and Poole in the period to 2026. - 3 - Scope of Assessment The typology for the built facilities assessment, as identified in the Methodology report is as follows: Detailed focus on: Swimming pools (4 lanes x 25m+); Sports halls (4+ badminton courts) including use by badminton, basketball and five-a-side football; Indoor and outdoor bowls; Indoor and outdoor tennis; Athletics tracks; Netball courts; Ballparks / open multi-use games areas; and, Dedicated five-a-side multi-use games areas. Limited appraisal on: Gyms (as part of leisure centres); Squash courts; Ice rinks; and, Golf courses. Although artificial grass pitches (AGPs) can be assessed using the built facilities approach, they are included in the pitch assessment report and utilise both the built facilities approach to assessment and that for playing pitches. The assessment takes into account built facilities which meet the following criteria: Comply with minimum requirements and definitions approved by the national sports governing bodies (NGBs) of the respective sports or - 4 - recreation activities (where relevant). This might include standards of quality, dimensions for competitive play, and so on. Are generally available to the public (for ‘community use’), including those where membership of a club or organisation is a pre-requisite for access, provided that membership criteria are unrestrictive and the membership fees are not exorbitant. Facilities are considered where they are available to the community for all or part of the peak period of use. Facilities discounted included: those on education sites used exclusively for curricular and extra-curricular purposes, with no use by ‘external’ community clubs; and, those on other ‘private’ sites such as armed forces bases, with no (or restrictively limited) use by ‘external’ community clubs. Key Stages of Assessment Specifically, the assessment focuses on the following areas of analysis for each type of built sports facility identified in the typology: Quantity and capacity of existing provision; Quality of existing provision; Accessibility of existing provision (local catchment areas, cost of use, physical access, ownership, management and use constraints); Shortfalls / gaps in existing provision; Projecting future demand and needs; and, Identifying future provision requirements and standards. Figure 2 below identifies the main sources from which data and other information is drawn to build up the picture of supply, demand and needs. Some sports and facilities use more of these sources than others. - 5 - Figure 2: Main sources of data and information for assessment process Strategic User / NGB Club, league Management / Facilities Market Sports Active Literature Project Team / opinion comment Active GIS Population Audit and school / owner Planning Segmentation Facility Places Review (inc. Steering Group survey and People mapping projections college surveys comments Model Tool Calculator Power plans and meetings s priorities programmes) loc ation X X X X number of fac ilities X X X size of fac ilities X X X X ownership type / management X X X of fac ility Quantity key issues identified by NGBs X X X (supply) key issues identified by LA (officers, Members and plans & X X programmes) key issues identified by managers and owners of X X X X fac ilities key issues identified by c lubs / X X X X leagues and users audit sc ores X key issues identified by NGBs X X key issues identified by LA (officers, Members and plans & X X X Quality programmes) key issues identified by managers and owners of X X X X fac ilities key issues identified by c lubs / X X X X leagues and users user / member defined catchments of X X X existing fac ilities in Bournemouth & Poole 20 minute drive-time catchments – catchments coverage provided by ‘reasonable’ travel- X t ime fac ilities within 20 minute drive-time of X Bournemouth and Poole community access including pay and play v club and block X X X X Accessibility bookings cost X parking X X X X key issues identified by NGBs X X key issues identified by managers and owners of X X X fac ilities key issues identified by c lubs / X X leagues and users Demand / supply balance and X X X X X X X X X X shortfalls in provision key issues identified by NGBs X X key issues identified by LA (officers, Members and plans & X X Identifying programmes) gaps in key issues identified by provision managers and owners of X X X fac ilities key issues identified by c lubs / X X leagues and users latent demand X X X X X X forecast participation rates X X X X X X Identifying requirements and standards X X X X X X X X future provision spatial distribution and loc ation X X X X X X X X of future provision 6 Assessment of Sport & Recreation Facilities Assessment Structure In order to be able to properly plan for provision in the future, an understanding first needs to be gained about existing provision. The following sections consider built facility types one by one. For each facility type, there are two elements. The ‘Understanding Existing Provision’ section considers the following issues in relation to the facilities that are currently available and in use in Bournemouth and Poole: Quantity: including number of facilities, location and size; management and ownership; the supply – demand balance; additional quantity issues raised by the audit and key stakeholders; Accessibility: community access; facilities outside of Bournemouth and Poole’s boundary but within a functional catchment; local catchment areas of facilities and reasonable drive-time distances; cost; additional access issues raised by the audit and key stakeholders; and, Quality: quality issues raised by the audit and key stakeholders. The ‘Meeting Demand and Needs’ section then focuses on identifying the gaps present in existing provision and identifying demand and needs in the future, as the population grows in Bournemouth and Poole. It focuses on: Identifying shortfalls from existing gaps: quantity, accessibility and quality standards of provision; identifying spatial gaps; and, Identifying future demand and needs: housing growth and population change (how much and where); implications of growth – quantity and location of additional provision; delivering existing plans and programmes. 7 Following this analysis, the Sports Strategy will utilise the conclusions, setting out how best to respond to changes implied by analysis in the period to 2026. It is important to recognise that this analysis and assessment does not consider commercial or competitive issues into account, but takes a fact- based strategic look at provision and existing and future needs and demand. Responsibility for delivering improved and additional facilities The assessment identifies both shortfalls in existing provision and demands and needs of sports and facilities in the period to 2026. While the development of the Strategy has been commissioned by Bournemouth Borough Council and Borough of Poole (with support from Active Dorset and Sport England) it is not suggested that any additional facilities proposed to fill identified shortfalls or future provision should be funded and delivered by the local authorities. The nature of sports facility provision has changed over the last decade or so with the role of local authorities now moving away from that of a provider and operator of facilities to that of a facilitator. New facilities are most likely to be provided by other organisations, clubs, businesses and operators, or a consortium of interested parties which may include the local authority. Either way, local authorities will play a key enabling and co-ordination role in planning for and delivering new facilities across their respective Boroughs. The same applies to the improvement of existing facilities, where management and / or ownership of existing facilities is no longer (or never has been) the responsibility of the Council. - 8 - Sources of Information The main sources of information used for this assessment are: The audit of facilities which takes a ‘snapshot’ of a facility’s condition in terms of quality, quantity and accessibility (see the Audit Report); The Sport England Facilities Planning Model (FPM) reports for Sports Halls and Swimming Pools (appended as separate file); Stakeholder