Site Details
Address
River Avon, Adj to Grand Parade, Bath, Somerset
Grid Reference
375211 - 164918
Local authority
Bath & NE Somerset Council
Sport England region
South West
Disciplines
Slalom, freestyle
Competitions and 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
- Slalom - 2nd division event - annually
- Lower grade freestyle events.
Training
The site has held regional team training or events, or individual elite training or participation for that 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.
- Best of 4 facilities in the area
Heritage
A heritiage site is one which has been used continually or a for a long time by that sport and which cannot be recreated in a different location.
- First used in 1960s/1970s
Non-competitive users
The site is important to the non-competitive parts of that sport.
Facilities strategy
The site has been identified as of international or national importance in that sport’s strategic planning documents.
- BCU Facilities Strategy 1999 - 2004 - site identified on regional sheet
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
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