This Guide provides a recommended methodology for local authorities to assess the need for pitches in their area. It sets out the policy context, briefly considers trends in participation in the pitch sports and considers the value of sports pitch strategies. It then describes the five basic stages in preparing a pitch strategy.
Guide to the preparation of sports pitch strategies
Other pages from this section:
Facilities
- Planning
- Our role in the planning system
- sportscotland’s approach to planning applications
- Guide to the preparation of sports pitch strategies
- Siting of Synthetic Grass Pitches
- Facility Planning Model
- Sport in the outdoors
- Planning performance framework annual reports
- National audit of Scotland's sports facilities
- Contact details for sportscotland planning team
- Service Statement: Town and Country Planning
- Development
- Design guidance
- Management
- Funding
- Find a facility
Date published: 29 March 2023
Date updated: 23 August 2023
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