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Longbridge Area Action Plan Open Space, Sport and Recreation LONGBRIDGE AREA ACTION PLAN OPEN SPACE, SPORT AND RECREATION BASELINE STUDY January 2008 CONTENTS PAGE NUMBER 1. INTRODUCTION 1 i. Purpose of Study ii. Definitions 2. PLANNING POLICY CONTEXT 2 i. Planning Policy Guidance 17 ii. Regional Planning Policy iii. Birmingham UDP and Bromsgrove Local Plan iv. Supplementary Planning Guidance and Supplementary Planning Documents v. Other initiatives 3. OPEN SPACE, SPORTS AND RECREATION PROVISION 7 i. Playing Pitches ii. Public open space iii. Local Play Space Provision iv. Other Informal Open Space v. Other sports facilities vi. Indoor Sport and Recreation Provision 4. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 14 APPENDICES A Plan Of Existing Provision LONGBRIDGE AAP, OPEN SPACE , SPORT AND RECREATION BASELINE STUDY 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION Purpose of study 1.1 This study provides the evidence base for the Longbridge Area Action Plan (AAP) on open space, sport and recreation. 1.2 It examines the availability and quality of existing provision in the area around Longbridge and provides an assessment of where gaps exist. The study also evaluates the potential for new open space, sports and recreation facilities and quantitative and qualitative requirements resulting from new development, and the wider role of sport and recreation in delivering cohesive, healthy and robust communities. It also makes recommendations for the AAP. 1.3 The study has been updated during the preparation of the AAP. Definitions 1.4 For the purposes of this report, sport and recreation includes a wide range of activities: • Formal outdoor sports facilities such as football, cricket, rugby, and hockey pitches, tennis courts, bowling greens; • Play areas for toddlers and juniors and facilities for teenagers such as multi-use games areas, youth shelters, skateboard parks and basketball hoops, and other spaces to allow for play and sports; • Areas for informal recreation (walking, cycling, horse riding) such as parks, open countryside and other natural green spaces, river and canal corridors mainly using footpaths, cycleways and bridleways; and • Indoor sports facilities such as gyms, sports halls, skating rinks and bowling. 1.5 The definition of “public open space” is “open space, including playing fields, owned by the Council or to which there is a public right of access, used by the public primarily for recreation purposes. It does not include private or education playing fields, nor does it include municipal or private golf courses, cemeteries, or open areas within housing estates which substitute for private gardens” 1. 1Birmingham Unitary Development Plan 2005 LONGBRIDGE AAP, OPEN SPACE , SPORT AND RECREATION BASELINE STUDY 2 2.0 PLANNING POLICY CONTEXT 2.1 This section sets out an overview summary of the principal aims and direction of policy within the Birmingham Unitary Development Plan (UDP) and Bromsgrove Local Plan and the respective Council’s supplementary guidance and documents, national guidance in PPG 17, regional policy within the Regional Spatial Strategy, and other policy based initiatives including guidance issued by Sport England 2. 2.2 In general these policies seek to ensure there is adequate, well managed, accessible and high-quality green space and recreation facilities by protecting and enhancing existing open spaces and sports and recreation facilities and by providing new open spaces and facilities to serve development. They also recognise that public open spaces and recreation and sport facilities have a number of major benefits; • Benefits for quality of life and well-being. By providing a good quality natural and built environment that is attractive to live and work in. For example, well managed, well located, high quality open spaces and sport and recreation facilities can provide high levels of local amenity and can strengthen local identity and pride. • Benefits for community cohesion and safety. By providing a range of local facilities that are accessible to all groups, sports and recreation provision can help reduce social exclusion and disaffection. For example, sport and recreational facilities can provide a focal point for a range of strategies and programmes for tackling anti-social behaviour and crime. • Direct benefits for environmental sustainability. Sports and recreation facilities can contribute to sustainable development objectives in issues such as equity and participation in activities, supporting economic development, and providing cooling open spaces to counteract climate change. Equally there are various indirect benefits such as providing opportunities for sport and recreation close to where people live. • Benefits for physical and psychological health. Sports and recreation facilities can contribute to delivering conditions that enable active lifestyles and encourage life long participation. For example sport and recreation facilities can provide a focal point for a range of strategies and programmes aimed at health promotion and encouraging life long participation. • Realising economic benefits. The presence of good parks and other public spaces is often viewed as an essential business and marketing tool, attracting companies, 2 Spatial Planning for Sport and Active Recreation, Sport England 2005 LONGBRIDGE AAP, OPEN SPACE , SPORT AND RECREATION BASELINE STUDY 3 customers, employees and services. A good range of high quality open spaces offers very clear benefits to the local economy in terms of stimulating increased house prices, as house-buyers place a premium on proximity to good quality green space. There is also a growing body of evidence which supports the value of sport and physical exercise in improving the productivity of workforces. Planning Policy Guidance 17 (PPG 17) 2.3 Planning Policy Guidance 17 “Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation” (2002) provides the government’s planning guidance on open space sport and recreation and it gives guidance on providing new and protecting existing open space. 2.4 PPG 17 states that open spaces, sport and recreation all underpin people’s quality of life. Accordingly well-designed and implemented planning policies for open space sport and recreation are therefore fundamental to achieving wider government objectives and will support urban renaissance, rural renewal, social inclusion and community cohesion, health and well-being, and sustainable development. 2.5 Good quality assessments and audits, leading to clear strategy, supported by effective planning policies, will provide vital tools for resolving potential conflict arising between different uses and users of open space, sport and recreational facilities. PPG 17 advises that it is essential to understand existing and future needs of a community in order to identify specific needs and quantitative and qualitative deficits or surpluses of open space, sports and recreational opportunities in the area. 2.6 It goes on to state that existing open spaces, sports and recreational buildings and land should not be built on unless an assessment has been undertaken which has clearly shown the land and buildings to be surplus to requirements, acknowledging that not all open space, sport and recreational land and buildings are of equal merit and some may be available for alternative uses. Regional Planning Policy 2.7 Regional Planning Guidance for the West Midlands 3, which forms the Regional Spatial Strategy and part of the Development Plan, contains policies concerning greenery, urban green space and public spaces. It states, like PPG 17, that local authorities should carry out audits of provision and assessments of local need and develop strategies to ensure that there is adequate, accessible and high-quality urban green space. The policy in the RSS goes on to emphasise aims of improving the quality of public spaces, and generally improving accessibility and enhancing sports, playing fields and recreation grounds. 3 Regional Planning Guidance for the West Midlands was adopted in June 2004 and became the Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) LONGBRIDGE AAP, OPEN SPACE , SPORT AND RECREATION BASELINE STUDY 4 Birmingham UDP and Bromsgrove Local Plan 2.8 The Birmingham UDP aims to support the provision of a network of open space. It also sets standards against which existing provision will be measured. These are 2 ha per 1000 population of public open space and public playing fields and 1.2 ha per 1000 population for public and private playing fields. These requirements are based on the National Playing Fields Association’s six acre standard adapted to reflect the built up nature of Birmingham. 2.9 It also seeks to protect existing open space and to require the provision of new open space in new residential development, or off site provision through a financial contribution secured through Section 106 legal agreement. 2.10 The UDP recognises the particular importance of linear open space walkways, (many of which utilise canals and rivers) to the open space network. It states that the completion and extension of this network will continue to be a priority. The Proposals Map highlights the Rea Valley Walkway as a key route in this network. 2.11 The Bromsgrove Local Plan (2004) contains both policy and supporting text which requires the protection of existing sports and recreation facilities and open space, and also positively supports and encourages the provision of additional sports and recreation provision, both indoor and outdoor. 2.12 In particular policies RAT 1 and 2 support and encourage the use of the Green Belt for sport and recreation. Policies RAT 3 and 7 support the provision
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