Our planning role and tools
This section includes:
- Our Planning for Sport Guidance, which explains our role in the planning system
- Planning tools: including our calculators, planning advice notes, the Facilities Planning Model and others
- Links to our Active Design resources
- Links to the Design Guidance Notes.
Playing fields policy
To help protect the spaces where people get active, local planning authorities are required by law to consult us on planning applications they receive that affect playing fields. Our Playing Fields Policy and Guidance sets out our approach to responding to such applications.
Planning applications
This section explains how we assess and respond to planning applications and what are statutory and non-statutory roles are. The section also includes:
- FAQs
- Our model planning conditions
- CUA template
- Our 'Making a Planning Application: A guide for community sports clubs'.
Assessing Needs and Playing Pitch Strategy guidance
This section includes our guidance documents for assessing communities’ needs for sport and recreation facilities under paragraph 103 of the National Planning Policy Framework (e.g Playing Pitch Strategies and Built Facilities Strategies).