For sites to be designated a regional SASP, they must meet one or more of the following criteria.  Sites will NOT be expected to meet every criteria.

Competitions/events - The site has held regional championships or events and an inter-regional standard of competition or event , and is sustainable in that it is in a location which provides the support facilities/services  necessary for that level of competition or event

Training - ·The site has held regional team training or events, or individual elite training or participation for that sport or any of its disciplines, and is sustainable in that it is in a location which provides the support facilities/services necessary for that level of training or event

Scarcity - The site is the only facility or resource for participation in that sport or any of its disciplines, or one of a limited number of facilities, in that region

Heritage - The site is important due to the longevity and continuity of use in that location by that sport and because it cannot be re-created at a different location

Non-competitive users - The site is important to the non-competitive parts of that sport

Facilities Strategy - The site has been identified as being regionally important in that sport’s strategic development plan documents.

Physical Characteristics - Identification of those characteristics, which if lost, would jeopardise the quality of the site

Number of users - The site is important because of the numbers of people using it from any level of that sport

Click here for a copy of the regional criteria template.