Sports Facility Strategy

The Plymouth Sports Facility Strategy has been developed in response to a number of factors including:

• The desire to update existing strategies (both city-wide and sports specific) and to complete a comprehensive review of facility provision within Plymouth.
• To demonstrate and ensure that sport and physical activity can contribute to the vision of Plymouth becoming one of Europe's finest, most vibrant waterfront cities, where an outstanding quality of life is enjoyed by everyone.
• The rapidly changing context for sports development and sports training, coaching and volunteering initiatives, not least through the impetus arising from the forthcoming London 2012 Olympics and changes in the method of funding sport

The case for taking part in sport and fitness activities can be, and has been, made many times - but this does not mean that its value is universally understood nor, when resources are diminishing, that these activities receive their due priority.

Involvement in sport and physical activity is usually regarded as a matter of personal preference; however, many people may be discouraged because of lack of opportunities or barriers to taking part and those who do start to get fit or learn a new sport may not continue to realise their full potential.

The purpose of the Sports Facilities Strategy, therefore, will be to improve and develop the range and quality of sporting facilities and opportunities in Plymouth as an essential component to overcoming the above constraints.

The network of high quality city-wide leisure facilities it proposes will enhance the quality of life of our citizens and will contribute, through sports development programmes, to broader corporate objectives including, health, educational attainment, safer communities, the economy, reducing inequalities and improving customer service.

The new opportunities it creates will enable increased physical activity and participation rates and progression through to higher standards of performance to be achieved by residents and workers within Plymouth and visitors, students and competitors from the south west and further afield.

You can find out more and have your say by clicking on the links below that will take you to both a summary and consultation leaflet and also the draft Sports Facility Strategy.

We welcome your comments, in particular on:

• the key principles and aspirations of the strategy
• what the strategy analysis has found
• what the strategy suggests may happen next

The consultation period will end on the 22 January 2010, following which all comments and information received will be considered in preparing the revised final strategy.

There are several ways you can respond:

1. Write to us at Culture, Sport and Leisure, Freepost (PY1415), Plymouth PL1 1BR
2. Fill in your comments online on our consultation portal
3. Email your comments directly to sportsstrategies@plymouth.gov.uk.

Please ask if you would like this document or information in another language or accessible format.

Documents

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	Plymouth Sports Facility Strategy (draft) - draft Plymouth Sports Facility Strategy. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 558.7KB
	Mapping - sports facilities index and maps. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 7.5MB This is a large file and could take a long time to download. If you would like a copy of this file on CD please contact us.
	Plymouth Sports Facility Strategy appendices - database of facilities. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 3.5MB This is a large file and could take a long time to download. If you would like a copy of this file on CD please contact us.
	Consultation leaflet - leaflet. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 764.4KB

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