79 Middlesbrough Leisure Indoor and Built Facility Strategy PDF 345 KB
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The
Executive Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health and the Director of
Regeneration and Culture submitted a report for the Executive’s consideration.
The purpose of the report was to provide an overview of Middlesbrough’s Leisure
Indoor Built Facility Strategy, with a view to its adoption by the Council, for
use as a point of reference for decisions pertaining to Middlesbrough’s
sport/leisure built facilities.
The
Leisure Indoor Built Facilities Strategy (IBFS) was intended to provide clear
direction to all partners to enable them to plan and develop programmes of
activity within modern, efficient and sustainable community-based sport/leisure
facilities. The strategy aimed to ensure that Middlesbrough residents had the
opportunity to develop their physical, sporting, health and wellbeing ambitions
within their local community. The strategy was included at Appendix 2 of the
submitted report.
The
Middlesbrough IBFS, undertaken by specialist sport and leisure consultants,
Knight Kavanagh and Page (KKP), was for the 15-year period 2019 - 2034. The
recommendations made within the IBFS were drawn from the IBFS Needs Assessment,
also undertaken by KKP.
Central
to the IBFS was Sport England’s directive that local authorities should seek to
protect, provide and enhance its indoor/built sport/leisure facilities.
The
IBFS Needs Assessment was attached at Appendix 1 of the submitted report. The
Needs Assessment had identified key points in relation to Middlesbrough’s sport
and leisure indoor built facilities and those were identified at paragraph 8 of
the report.
Utilising
the evidence gained in the IBFS Needs Assessment, KKP had identified a number
of key strategic objectives the Council may have wished to consider. Those
objectives were detailed at paragraph 9 of the report.
OPTIONS
The Council could have
chosen not to adopt the IBFS, however, that approach had not been recommended
for the following reasons:
a)
It would have
undermined the strategic rationale for decisions pertaining to sport/leisure
built facilities.
b)
The lack of a strategic
rationale, for decisions pertaining sport/leisure built facilities, would have
significantly hampered the capability of the Council to work with partners to
attract external investment in projects.
ORDERED
That Middlesbrough
Leisure Indoor Built Facility Strategy be adopted for use, as a source of
reference, in decisions pertaining to Middlesbrough’s sport/leisure indoor
built facilities.
REASONS
To provide the Council
with a strategic foundation upon which to make decisions relating to the
protection, provision and enhancement of Middlesbrough’s sport/leisure indoor
built facilities. The same strategic basis would also increase the Council’s
capacity to work with partners to attract investment in projects that protect,
provide and enhance the town’s sport/leisure built facilities.
The IBFS had been
delivered through consultation with all relevant stakeholders, following the
guidelines set out by Sport England.