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SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL Cabinet Report 7 SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL Cabinet Report 7 Report of: Sonia Sharp ______________________________________________________________ Date: 4th August 2010 ______________________________________________________________ Subject: Improving sports and play facilities and green spaces in Sheffield through investing part of the Chaucer School capital receipt ______________________________________________________________ Author of Report: Kate Lewis Sport Strategy Adviser 0114 2506730 ______________________________________________________________ Summary: As part of the rebuilding of Chaucer School and the regeneration of the Chaucer area, part of the capital receipt generated must be reinvested in facilities for sports, play and green space. This paper sets out proposals to invest £4.96m of the Chaucer School capital receipt in improving sports facilities for community use at Chaucer School and 9 other secondary school sites by 2012 and in active playgrounds for 25 primary schools local to Chaucer by 2011. The proposals will draw down an additional £775k of available matched funding. Value for money will also be enhanced by combining works on secondary school sites with works already planned under Building Schools for the Future. The proposals seek to maximise the benefits of this significant opportunity to improve play, sports and green space facilities for Sheffield people both in the immediate Chaucer area and more widely. Reason for Recommendation: Implementing the proposals in this paper offers a cost-effective means of furthering the following City of Opportunity objectives: - to position schools as community hubs through wider community use; - to promote participation in sports as part of the ‘Lighting the Flame for Sport 2009 - 2011’ Strategy and the Sheffield and Hallamshire FA 2018 World Cup Legacy strategy; - to promote strong communities through establishing new community sports clubs; 1 - to widen the availability of positive activities for children and young people; and - to promote good health and fitness and reduce obesity. The sites identified offer a strong combination of areas of high local need for new facilities and opportunities to enhance existing successful facilities. Recommendations: That Cabinet: (i) approves the proposed rationale for the investment of the prescribed part of the Chaucer capital receipt to meet the statutory requirements of s.77 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 and the relevant statutory guidance. (ii) . the inclusion of the project listed in this paper as part of the Council’s capital programme subject to the receipt of the external funding; and (iii) notes that this scheme will be presented for financial approval as part of the monthly Capital Finance report presented to cabinet on August 4th ________________________________________________________ Background Papers: Category of Report: OPEN 2 Statutory and Council Policy Checklist Financial implications Cleared by Alan Rainford Legal implications Cleared by: Nadine Wynter Equality of Opportunity implications No Tackling Health Inequalities implications N/A Human rights implications N/A Environmental and Sustainability implications N/A Economic impact N/A Community safety implications N/A Human resources implications N/A Property implications To be included Area(s) affected Northern, Central, North East, East, Central & South West Community Assemblies Relevant Scrutiny Board if decision called in Children and Young People’s Is the item a matter which is reserved for ap proval by the City Council? Press release YES 3 1. Purpose 1.1. The purpose of this report is to make recommendations as to the use of the capital receipt from the disposal of land at Chaucer Business and Enterprise College to replace sporting and green spaces in Sheffield. 2. Summary 2.1 . As part of the rebuilding of Chaucer School and the regeneration of the Chaucer area, part of the capital receipt generated must be reinvested in facilities for sports, play and green space. This paper sets out proposals to invest £4.96m of the Chaucer School capital receipt in improving sports facilities for community use at Chaucer School and 9 other secondary school sites by 2012 and in active playgrounds for 25 primary schools local to Chaucer by 2011. 2.2 . Significant development will take place at Chaucer Business and Enterprise College as part of the conditions of the receipt. This will provide replacement sports facilities; including redeveloped grass pitches, a floodlit all weather pitch and synthetic running track. Together with enhanced external teaching and social areas and improvements and enhancements to the appearance of the front of the school. 2.3. The proposals will draw down a potential, additional £775k of available matched funding. Value for money will also be enhanced by combining works on secondary school sites with works already planned under Building Schools for the Future. The proposals seek to maximise the benefits of this significant opportunity to improve play, sports and green space facilities for Sheffield people both in the immediate Chaucer area and more widely. 3. What this means for Sheffield people 3.1 By the end of July 2011, 25 primary schools within two miles of Chaucer will have new active playgrounds. By September 2010 four secondary schools within two miles of Chaucer and six other local secondaries will have new sports facilities for school and community use. This will benefit not just the 16,500 pupils at these schools who will have access to better play and sports facilities, but their wider local communities who will also benefit from access including through new community sports facilities. Programmes will have been developed in partnership with the community to ensure that the facilities offer high quality, relevant programmes for as many people as possible to enjoy. 4. Background 4.1 The recent regeneration of the Chaucer area and rebuild of the secondary school involved the disposal of part of the former Chaucer playing field to Asda. Part of the condition of the sale of the Chaucer land was that the sporting and green spaces sold would need to be replaced in the City. Proposals have been drawn up with a view to ensuring that there are significant benefits to people living in the immediate Chaucer area by improving local facilities, and more widely within the city in areas of high need for improved facilities and to enhance 4 existing successful facilities. 4.2 Proposals have been drawn up to help address the following priorities: (i) to ensure that more schools are at the heart of their communities as hubs for wider services, maximising the benefits to local people, as set out in the Feb 10 2010 Cabinet report “Our Schools as Community Hubs”. (ii) to promote participation in sports as part of the ‘Lighting the Flame for Sport 2009 - 2011’ Strategy and the Sheffield and Hallamshire FA 2018 World Cup Legacy strategy; (iii) to build stronger local communities by encouraging more people to take part in local community groups organising local activities; (iv) to expand and improve the provision of positive activities for young people out of school hours including opportunities to build good relationships with local adults; (v) to promote health and well-being through provision of attractive green spaces and sports facilities and to reduce obesity. 4.3 For primary-aged children schools there is considerable potential to enhance investment already being made by the Playbuilder programme – a national programme to enhance play facilities - Sheffield Let’s Change for Life - a city- wide programme focused on addressing overweight and obesity in children and families. 4.4 Data has highlighted high numbers of overweight or obese children amongst 71% of the primary schools within a 2 mile radius of Chaucer. In view of the high levels of need in the immediate Chaucer area it is proposed to ensure that every primary and special school within a 2 mile radius can be equipped with an exciting active play facility. We will seek to ensure through schools that pupils are involved in its design We will expect as a condition of funding, each school to provide access to play facilities to responsible community groups for supervised use at appropriate times. 4.5 For young people and adults high quality and accessible sports and leisure facilities are key. We need to build on current success and identify scope for expansion. Currently, for example, football clubs are key users of school pitches. There are some excellent arrangements for the use of school facilities between schools and community users. However, there are also a number of schools in Sheffield who are unable to support this, as extensive external use of limited grass pitches would mean that they would be rendered unfit for pupils’ use. 4.6 Sheffield is bidding to be a host city for the FIFA 2018 World Cup. As part of the bid a Sheffield Football Development Plan has been written. The plan focuses on identifying key sites in each community assembly to host a community sports club, of which the main focus is football, but also focuses on the development of other sports related programmes such as; coach and volunteer education, physical activity related programmes for parents and positive activities for young people. 5 4.7 Sheffield and Hallamshire FA have worked with the CYPS Sport Strategy Adviser, and Activity Sheffield’s Project Manager to identify schools that have the potential to host these clubs. They have committed to support an application to the Football Foundation to access 50% of the funding towards the facilities required to enable schools host a club. The Football Foundation has indicated that this project is likely to gain their support. 4.8 Football is not the only sport looking to make best use of school facilities for community use. British Cycling has approached Forge Valley and is now interested in working with City School with an offer of 50% funding to build cycle training tracks. 4.9 There is a very real opportunity to bring significant investment into Sheffield to achieve the city’s strategic objectives.
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