LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES PLAYING PITCH STRATEGY Action Plan Update September 2019 LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES PLAYING PITCH STRATEGY – Action Plan Update Purpose of this document This document relates to, and should be read in conjunction with, the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Playing Pitch Strategy (PPS), which was developed for the Council by Knight, Kavanagh & Page (KKP) and published in March 2018. Monitoring and updating the PPS forms an important part of the planning process, with guidance from Sport England recommending that the actions identified within the Strategy are reviewed on an annual basis. In light of this, the Council participated in ‘Stage E’ meetings in March and September 2019 with representatives of Sport England, Sport Richmond, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), England Hockey, the Football Association (FA), the Football Foundation, the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), and the Rugby Football Union (RFU). The intention of these meeting was to monitor the delivery of the recommendations and action plan identified in the PPS, and to highlight emergent issues and opportunities. The meetings were not intended to review the overarching strategic recommendations identified within Part 5 of the PPS, which are considered to remain applicable and relevant. Guide to using this document The site by site action plans identified within ‘Part 6’ of the PPS have been replicated in the tables below, each of which covers one of the three study areas utilised in the original assessment study (Hampton & Teddington; Richmond; and Twickenham). For reference, these tables are identified on pages 45-51, 54-59, and 62-65 of the PPS, respectively. In addition, three further columns have been included, recording the ‘actions taken’ and the ‘issues raised’. These relate to items emerging from the ‘Stage E’ meetings identified in the section above. Where new material has been added – and/or existing actions, information or recommendations have been affected – the relevant box has been highlighted using a light orange fill for actions/issues raised in March 2019 and a light blue fill for actions/issues raised in September 2019. This is intended to aid users to easily identify where new information has been provided as part of the monitoring process. Explanatory text regarding various heading and categories identified within the table is included on pages 40-42 of the original document, however for convenience this is also replicated in Appendix 1. Caveats Please note, this document reflects a snapshot of information gathered at particular points in time, in March and September 2019, with minor factual corrections subsequently provided by the National Governing Bodies as part of a review process. The identified actions and recommendations should not however be taken as confirmation in any way, particularly in relation to the identification of funding. Priorities do change over time, and so other projects that are not identified below may also come forward. Due to resource constraints, other than when it was raised on a site-specific basis, a review of the demand and supply that informed the Council’s Playing Pitch Assessment has not been included as part of this monitoring exercise. Further information If you would like further information regarding this document, please contact the Richmond Local Plan Team ([email protected]). LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES PLAYING PITCH STRATEGY – Action Plan Update – March 2019 HAMPTON & TEDDINGTON AREA Site by site action plan Site Site Sport Manage- Current status Recommended actions Actions taken Actions taken Issues raised Partners Site Timescales1 Cost2 Aim ID ment (March 2019) (Sept 2019) (March 2019 / hierarchy Sep 2019) tier 6 Broom Road Cricket Council Two standard quality squares which Review quality issues in ECB Key L L Protect Recreation host ten and four grass wickets, an attempt to improve Centre Enhance Ground respectively. Used to capacity by quality to good. Twickenham, Hampton Wick Royal and Barnes cricket clubs. Football Two good quality adult pitches and Sustain current levels of FA L L one standard quality mini 7v7 pitch. quality through Both pitch types are substantially appropriate overplayed. maintenance. Alleviate overplay S L through the transfer of demand to sites with actual spare capacity. 8 Bushy Park Cricket Royal Four grass cricket squares and a Sustain and look to A new pavilion is The new ECB Hub Site L L Protect Parks standalone NTP square all of which improve quality through being provided pavilion is Royal Enhance are standard quality. One square has an enhanced with an improved officially opening Parks 15 grass wickets, two squares each maintenance regime. offer, including on 20 have ten grass wickets accompanied the replacement September by an NTP and the final square has of nets used by 2019. ten grass wickets accompanied by Teddington CC. two NTPs. Two squares are leased by Ensure leases with clubs S L Teddington CC with Teddington are maintained and Town, Hampton Hill and Hampton renewed when Wick Royal cricket clubs leasing a applicable. square each. Bushy Park Girls CC Look to secure funding S L / M rents the use of the squares leased to in order to refurbish poor Hampton Wick Royal CC and quality nets Teddington Town CC. All squares are played to capacity at peak time. Support Bushy Park S L Hampton Wick Royal CC considers its Girls CC with its practice nets to be poor quality. aspirations for access to a dedicated home ground. Football Two youth 9v9, four mini 7v7 and one Sustain quality through FA sought grant Teddington FA L L mini 5v5 pitch all of which are good an appropriate from Football Athletic FC have Royal quality. The youth 9v9 and mini 7v7 maintenance regime. Foundation; discussed with Parks pitches have actual spare capacity subject to pitch Middlesex FA peak time whereas the mini 5v5 pitch advisor and the Football is played to capacity. inspection. Foundation the Alleviate overplayed possibility of an S L sites with the transferal agreement of demand to pitches between the with spare capacity. club and Teddington Cricket Club, which it hopes will be resolved shortly. 1 Timescales: (S) -Short (1-2 years); (M) - Medium (3-5 years); (L) - Long (6+ years). 2 (L) -Low - less than £50k; (M) -Medium - £50k-£250k; (H) -High £250k and above. 3 LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES PLAYING PITCH STRATEGY – Action Plan Update – March 2019 Site Site Sport Manage- Current status Recommended actions Actions taken Actions taken Issues raised Partners Site Timescales1 Cost2 Aim ID ment (March 2019) (Sept 2019) (March 2019 / hierarchy Sep 2019) tier Rugby Two standard quality senior pitches. Improve the quality of RFU S L Union Each pitch is overplayed by 1.5 match the pitches through an Royal equivalent sessions per week. enhanced maintenance Parks Teddington RFC leases the pitches in order to alleviate on a ten year licence agreement. This overplay. provides limited security tenure. Explore the feasibility of S L secure tenure for Teddington RFC through negation of a long term lease. 10 Carlisle Park Cricket Council One standard quality square with Review quality issues in The nets are in ECB Key S L Protect eight grass wickets and an NTP. an attempt to improve poor condition Centre Enhance Spare capacity of one match quality to good and seek and are not well equivalent session at peak time. resolution to pavilion used. It was Pavilion restrictions impair use. access issues. considered that improvements to these could help to increase opportunities for junior play. Football One adult, two youth 9v9 and two mini Sustain quality through L L 7v7 pitches all of which are good an appropriate quality. The adult pitch has actual maintenance regime. spare capacity of one match Utilise actual spare No longer actual Now being used FA S L equivalent session at peak time capacity through the spare capacity. by Hampton whereas the youth 9v9 and mini 7v7 transfer of demand from Pre-Prep & Prep pitches each have spare capacity of overplayed sites or via School two match equivalent sessions. future demand. (independent). Tennis Three Two good quality and five four Sustain quality of the Two courts Now consider LTA L L poor quality macadam courts. good quality courts and refurbished. four courts to be look to improve poor good and three quality courts. to be poor Explore options to install Access system quality. S L LTA’s access system. now installed. Bowls One good quality green used by Sustain green quality Bowls L L Hampton Bowling Club. and retain for current England use. 12 Clarendon Football School One standard quality adult pitch which Ensure any future use of Turing House FA Local Site L L Protect School is available for community use but the pitch is supported by School are School currently unused. Spare capacity a community use temporarily discounted due to unsecure tenure. agreement. occupying this site, and Clarendon School has been relocated. 18 Hampton and Football Club One floodlit good quality adult pitch Sustain pitch quality FA Local Site L L Protect Richmond which has spare capacity of 0.5 match through appropriate Club Borough equivalent sessions at peak time. maintenance. Football Club Club plays at Step 2 in the football Ensure ancillary facilities S L / M pyramid. and playing provision is suitable for the Club to progress through the football pyramid. 4 LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND UPON THAMES PLAYING PITCH STRATEGY – Action Plan Update – March 2019 Site Site Sport Manage- Current status Recommended actions Actions taken Actions taken Issues raised Partners Site Timescales1 Cost2 Aim ID ment (March 2019) (Sept 2019) (March 2019 / hierarchy Sep 2019) tier 19 Hatherop Football Council One youth 11v11, one youth 9v9, one Sustain good quality A pitch FA Local Site L L Protect Park mini 7v7 and one mini 5v5 pitch.