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SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL

Sports Facilities, Local Leisure Facilities and Playing Pitch Study

Part 1: Background and Context

October 2017

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION 1: THE PURPOSE OF THE STRATEGIES 4

SECTION 2: THE POLICY FRAMEWORK 5

SECTION 3: CHARACTER OF SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE 36

SECTION 4: POLICIES AND STRATEGIES OF NEIGHBOROUGING AUTHORITIES 53

SECTION 5: SUMMARY 53


TABLE OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Science Vale Context Plan 12

Figure 2: Didcot Garden Town Masterplan area 13

Figure 3: Housing proposals and strategy sub areas for South Oxfordshire 14

Figure 4: Recreation and leisure on the Reg 123 List 16

Figure 5: Criteria for determining source of project finance 18

Figure 6: Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan schedule 2017 19

Figure 7: Gillotts School housing proposal 27

Figure 8: 357 Reading Road housing proposal 28

Figure 9: Highlands Farm, Greys Road 29

Figure 10: South Oxfordshire current population structure compared to England 36

Figure 11: Sub area populations 2017 - 2032 38

Figure 12: Age profile across sub areas compared to England 39

Figure 13: Population structure change 2017-2032 40

Figure 14: Population profile across SUEs: Harlow and Milton Keynes 41

Figure 15: Map of Index of Multiple Deprivation 42

Figure 16: Health profile for South Oxfordshire 43

Figure 17: Sport and physical activity levels for adults 46

Figure 18: Top sports in South Oxfordshire with regional and national comparison 47

Figure 19: Market Segments 48

Figure 20: Largest market segments (whole authority) 49

Figure 21: Market Segmentation map 50

Figure 22: Market segmentation and interest in sport 52


APPENDICES APPENDIX 1: National Planning Policy Framework Summary APPENDIX 2: Policy base for contributions under s106 APPENDIX 3: Market Segmentation summaries


SECTION 1: THE PURPOSE OF THE STRATEGIES

South Oxfordshire has developed a suite of strategies to inform the emerging Local Plan and to guide the requirements which will arise from new housing. These reports address the needs of the existing and future communities for sport, recreation and open space and comprise:

Part 1: Background and context This summarises the policy background, the anticipated population changes, and the activity characteristics for the district. This part is referenced and used throughout the other parts of the strategy as it applies to all sports, facilities, and open space.

Part 2: Sports facilities strategy

This looks at each of the larger sports facility types in turn, including the larger strategic facilities such as sports halls and swimming pools. Also considered within this strategy report are the countryside and water activities such as rowing, sailing, cycling and horse riding.

Part 3: Playing pitch strategy

This considers grass playing fields plus artificial grass pitches, and primarily considers the needs of football, cricket, rugby and hockey. Part 4: Local leisure facilities This considers village halls, outdoor tennis and bowling green provision.

Part 5: Open spaces

This strategy considers the various types of open space across the district such as parks and gardens, amenity green space, provision for children’s play and young people and allotments.

The strategies for the built facilities and playing pitches follow the formal guidance set

down by Sport England. There is currently no national guidance for open space reports, so the approach follows current best practice.

The strategies consider the demand and supply of facilities across the district and

specifically the area around Didcot, where the growth straddles the boundary with the Vale of White Horse, and needs to be planned as a whole.

The conclusions and recommendations identify the facility network which will be

required within the district to meet the needs of the district as a whole, based both on the adopted Core Strategy housing numbers and those proposed in the Local Plan 2033 Second Preferred Options report of March 2017.


SECTION 2: THE POLICY FRAMEWORK

The priorities of South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) are set out in a number of key policy documents and these provide the justification for the authority’s and its partners’ investment in sport and active recreation and open spaces. These policy documents include national and local planning documents, the Corporate Plan and the Sustainable Community Strategy, plus previous adopted strategies. In a wider context, the plans and relevant strategies of all of the authorities around South Oxfordshire District are also of importance as they will also impact on the future supply and demand for sports facilities.

The strategy modelling is based on the forecast housing contained within both the adopted Core Strategy and the Local Plan 2033 second Preferred Options document (March 2017). The future population numbers and characteristics have been forecast by Oxfordshire County Council at the request of the District Council. These have been produced by ward for each sex and at single years up to 2032. This is a year less than the Preferred Options report end date of 2033, but there is unlikely to be any significant differences in the demand for sports facilities between the two years, so the findings of this report, based on 2032, can be considered accurate.

NATIONAL PLANNING POLICIES National Planning Policy Framework (2012)

These national policies provide the overall structure for planning and wider community policies, which is then developed further within the local context.

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) (Communities and Local Government,

2012) sets out the Government's national planning policies for new development. They aim to create the homes and jobs that the country needs while protecting and enhancing the natural and historic environment. The NPPF requires local assessments to be made of sport, recreation and open space, and key policies for both provision and protection of facilities and spaces, and key paragraphs include (further detail is provided in Appendix 1):

• Paragraph 70: positive planning for the provision and use of shared space including

community facilities and sports venues to enhance the sustainability of communities and residential environments.

• Paragraph 73: justification of provision needs to be set out within up to date assessments.

• Paragraph 74: the protection of existing open space, sports and recreational buildings including playing fields, with specific policy exceptions.

• Paragraph 156: setting the strategic priorities for “the provision of health, security, community and cultural infrastructure and other local facilities”.

• Paragraph 178: the duty for authorities to co-operate on planning issues that cross administrative boundaries, including sport and recreation.


National Planning Practice Guidance

National Planning Practice Guidance (NPPG) is a suite of guidance information which is regularly updated, added to and amended. This information is designed to support the interpretation of the NPPF policies. The most important guidance documents for the open space, sport and recreation strategies are summarised below.

Open space, sports and recreation facilities

This guidance (Dept for Communities and Local Government, 2014) reconfirms the need for up to date assessments of sport, recreation and open space as a requirement to justify developers’ obligations. It specifically refers to the duty of local authorities to cooperate where open spaces serve a wider area. The open space, sport and recreation strategies meet the requirement for up to date assessments and cooperation across the boundaries of the authorities.

It refers to the use of Sport England Guidance on how to assess the need for sports and

recreation facilities and also the requirement of local planning authorities to consult Sport England about developments affecting playing fields, and a recommendation to do so where there are other changes planned to the network of sports facilities. The strategies use the appropriate Sport England Guidance, Assessing Needs and Opportunities for built facilities, and Playing Pitch Guidance for pitches.

The note also provides guidance for the designation of Local Green Space both in Local

Plans and in Neighbourhood Plans. Such green spaces need to be in public ownership but may or may not have public access, and are not therefore specifically addressed as a category in the open spaces report.

Health and wellbeing

The Health and Wellbeing guidance (Dept for Communities and Local Government, 2014) recognises the importance of planning to the quality of the built and natural environments, which are a major determinant of health and wellbeing. This link is fundamental to the NPPF and is the main driver for the open space, sport and recreation strategy work. The guidance draws this out in relation to the issues that could be considered through the plan-making processes, and which are a key consideration for the strategy recommendations, as follows:

• development proposals can support strong, vibrant and healthy communities and

help create healthy living environments which should, where possible, include making physical activity easy to do and create places and spaces to meet to support community engagement and social capital;

• the local plan promotes health, social and cultural wellbeing and supports the reduction of health inequalities;

• the local plan considers the local health and wellbeing strategy and other relevant health improvement strategies in the area;

• opportunities for healthy lifestyles have been considered (e.g. planning for an environment that supports people of all ages in making healthy choices, helps to


promote active travel and physical activity, and promotes access to healthier food, high quality open spaces, green infrastructure and opportunities for play, sport and recreation);

• access to the whole community by all sections of the community, whether able-bodied or disabled, has been promoted.

Natural Environment

The Natural Environment guidance (Department for Communities and Local Government, 2016) covers landscape, biodiversity and ecosystems, green infrastructure, brownfield land, soils and agricultural land. In relation to the open space, sport and recreation strategies, the key sections relate to the use of the green infrastructure networks for recreation.

NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

The national sports strategy from Government and the responding Sport England national strategy provides high level justification for the emerging recommendations and the identification of priorities within each of the strategies. A major theme across all of the national guidance is the objective of getting more people more active, and encouraging an active lifestyle from the earliest ages, in a large part to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities.

H M Government Sporting Future: A New Strategy for an Active Nation

This wide-ranging detailed strategy (Dept for Culture, Media & Sport, 2015) was launched in December 2015 with the aim to change the way in which sport is considered, from simply how many people take part, to what people get out of participating and what more can be done to encourage everyone to have a physically active lifestyle.

The funding decisions of Government will now be made on the basis of the social good

that sport and physical activity can deliver, not simply the number of participants. The five key outcomes which will define success in sport are:

• physical well-being • mental well-being • individual development • social and community development • economic development.

The primary funding will be focussing on those people who tend not to take part in sport

including women and girls, disabled people, those in lower socio-economic groups and older people. All new government funding will go to organisations that can deliver some or all of the five outcomes, and those organisations which show that they can work collaboratively and tailor their work at the local level will be the most likely to receive funding.


The Government strategy broadens Sport England’s remit so that it becomes responsible for sport outside of school from the age of 5 rather than 14.

Policy will support the value of broader engagement in sport, through volunteering,

spectating, or the general feel-good factor associated with sporting success. Government has reaffirmed its commitment to Olympic and Paralympic success but also extending support to non-Olympic sports particularly with grassroots investment.

The Government’s strategy recognises that local government are the biggest public

sector investor in sport and physical activity, spending over £1bn per year excluding capital spend. Councils have an important leadership role in forging partnerships, unblocking barriers to participation and improving the local sport delivery system, and local authorities are seen as crucial in delivering sport and physical activity opportunities. As such many councils have integrated physical activity into public health policy with the objective of promoting wellbeing, and have produced Health and Wellbeing Strategies.

In relation to open spaces, the strategy states:

“Being close to where people live, high quality multi-use local green spaces can play a key role as sporting venues and as alternative settings for sport and healthy activity for communities including new audiences that are less likely to use traditional sports centres. The opportunities to realise the multiple benefits that can be achieved for communities by investing in green spaces and routes as venues for sport and healthy activity should be considered whenever they arise.”

The strategy specifically states that support for sport and physical activity infrastructure

is not restricted to pitches, sports halls and buildings. In future it should include all types of places where people take part in activity in both rural and urban environments. Providing people with the freedom to use existing facilities and spaces and keeping them in good repair, is seen as being as important as building new infrastructure.

The Government strategy is seeking new ways of supporting local physical activity

strategies in selected geographical areas, and expects Sport England, Public Health England and Health and Wellbeing Boards to work closely together on pilot projects. Collaborative and innovative approaches are also being encouraged at the very local level involving organisations such as housing associations and the police, and Lottery funding policies will be changed to more easily support such projects.


Sport England: Towards an Active Nation, strategy 2016-2021

Sport England launched its new five year national strategy in May 2016. It responds to the Government’s Sporting Future strategy, and as such has a stronger focus on reaching those who are least active, and helping to deliver the wider Government’s strategy’s outcomes. The key changes that Sport England are making to the way that they work are:

• Focusing more money and resources on tackling inactivity. • Investing more in children and young people from the age of five. • Helping those who are active now to carry on, but at lower cost to the public purse

over time. • Putting customers at the heart of what they do, responding to how people

organise their lives and helping the sector to be more welcoming and inclusive, especially of those groups currently under-represented in sport.

• Helping sport to keep pace with the digital expectations of customers. • Working nationally where it makes sense to do so (for example on infrastructure

and workforce) but encouraging stronger local collaboration to deliver a more joined-up experience of sport and activity for customers.

• Working with a wider range of partners, including the private sector, using their expertise as well as Sport England investment to help others align their resources.

• Working with our sector to encourage innovation and share best practice particularly through applying the principles and practical learning of behaviour change.

There will be 7 investment programmes by Sport England which reflect the policy

direction set down in the government strategy ‘Sporting Future’. These will replace the existing programmes, and are summarised below:

1 Tackling inactivity This will be the highest priority for investment, and at least 25% of Sport England’s total resources (£265m) will be dedicated to this programme. Sport England will set targets for the percentage of inactive people who will benefit from their major investment programmes.

2 Children and young people Sport England will focus on pre- and post-school activities for children from the age of 5 years.

3 Volunteering – a dual benefit Sport England will focus on what the volunteer gets out of volunteering, making it easier to fit volunteering in sport into a modern lifestyle and making volunteers more representative of society.

4 Taking sport and activity into the mass market Sport England will seek out and back the ideas that can help make sport a mass market activity, including making sport more digitally accessible.


5 Supporting sport’s core market Sport England will work with sporting organisations to improve their sustainability and increase efficiency.

6 Local delivery Sport England will demonstrate the benefits of working in a more joined-up way in some specific places, a mix of urban and rural, where they will pilot new ways of working locally and build long-term collaborations. There will be at least £130m investment over the next 4 years in 10 places in England. The identification of the locations will involve Public Health England and be places where addressing physical activity is a priority in the local health and wellbeing strategies.

7 Facilities Sport England will continue to invest in all types of facilities, with a strong presumption in favour of multi-sport for their major strategic investments. Locations where sport is located alongside other services such as schools, libraries or doctor’s surgeries are also seen as particular opportunities.

Sport England expects every new major facility to have a robust and sustainable

business plan, and will offer specialist advice and support to those applying for major capital investment.

The use of existing facilities will be encouraged, particularly the use of schools through

the Use our School guidance document.

They will also create a new Community Asset Fund to support local infrastructure which will replace the Inspired Facilities and Protecting Playing Fields schemes. This will have a simplified capital grant application process and also include short term revenue grants to support local communities to take ownership of local assets. The grants will be of between £10,000 and £150,000.

In addition to the major facilities and Community Asset Fund scheme, Sport England will

continue to invest £18m per year over the next four years in accordance with the football facility investment strategy being developed in association with the Football Association, the Premier League and the Football Foundation. This will include the Parklife project which will create football hubs in more than 20 major cities across the country.

Sport England national guidance for the production of strategies has been used for the

relevant report sections:

• Built facilities: Assessing Needs and Opportunities (Sport England, 2014) • Playing pitches: Playing Pitch Strategy Guidance (Sport England, 2013).


LOCAL PLANNING POLICIES

The adopted Core Strategy (South Oxfordshire District Council , 2012) and the saved policies of the ‘Local Plan 2011’ (adopted 2006) (South Oxfordshire District Council, 2012) provide the current planning policy base for South Oxfordshire. However, South Oxfordshire is well advanced in producing a new Local Plan (now at the Second Preferred Options Stage) (South Oxfordshire District Council , 2017) for which the report strategies will form part of the evidence base.

The Core Strategy (adopted 2012)

The extant Local Plan is made up of a series of documents and policies, however detail for this is not included in this strategy, given the advanced progress of the emerging Local Plan.

Emerging Local Plan: Second Preferred Options (March 2017)

The emerging Local Plan has an end date of 2033, and contains new housing numbers and strategic allocations. The Local Plan 2033 second Preferred Options document (March 2017) has a number of strategic objectives, of which the key relevant ones for the provision of sport and recreation are:

OBJ 1.4 Focus growth in Science Vale through delivering homes and jobs, retail and leisure facilities and enhanced transport infrastructure. OBJ 4.1 Ensure that essential infrastructure is delivered to support our existing residents and services as well as growth. OBJ 6.2 Provide access to high quality leisure, recreation, cultural, community and health facilities. OBJ 6.3 Ensure all communities have access to the services and facilities they value, supporting the health and wellbeing of everyone.

This strategy will help to deliver the infrastructure needed to support the long term

health and well-being of the communities across South Oxfordshire, both those existing and new.

The Local Plan 2033 second Preferred Options document (March 2017) spatial strategy

recognises the requirement for the district to meet both its own housing needs (about 17,050), and to meet the need for some of Oxford City’s unmet housing need (the working assumption for the latter is 3,750 homes) thus totalling 20,800, of which 8,475 dwellings will be delivered in new strategic allocations over the plan period.

Policy STRAT1 focusses major new development in Science Vale (South Oxfordshire

District Council & Vale of White Horse District Council , 2015) (see Figure 1 ) including


Didcot Garden Town (see Figure 2) and Culham. There is also expected to be major development at Chalgrove Airfield and Berinsfield.

Figure 1: Science Vale Context Plan


Figure 2: Didcot Garden Town Masterplan area

In addition the market towns and larger villages are each expected to deliver 15%

growth which will be planned for through neighbourhood plans, rather than as allocations in the Local Plan. For Henley this equates to 677 homes, Thame 452 homes and Wallingford 226 homes. The larger villages collectively need to deliver 1,122 homes and the smaller villages 500 homes.

The next version of the Local Plan will set out how the 1,122 homes are expected to be delivered in each of the twelve larger villages. Some villages are constrained by factors such as the Green Belt, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and flood zones. In these villages the proposed 15% growth may not be fully achievable. Other villages are unconstrained and can plan for more than 15% growth. The level of growth proposed should be evidenced within the Neighbourhood Development Plan with local communities helping to shape the development of their village.

A summary map showing the housing locations and numbers in the Core Strategy and

the Local Plan 2033 second Preferred Options document (March 2017) is given in Figure 3. These housing proposals underpin the demographic forecasts which have been used to model the future demand for sports facilities in the area.


Figure 3: Housing proposals and strategy sub areas for South Oxfordshire


Securing Provision of Sport Through Development

The details of how sports provision can be provided and/or funded through housing developments are given within the “Delivering the Strategy” sections of both Part 2 (built facilities) and Part 3 (playing pitch strategy).

The most recent policy setting out the authority’s approach towards developers’ contributions for infrastructure is set out in the Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule (South Oxfordshire , 2016) and the Regulation 123 List of April 2016 (South Oxfordshire, 2016). The introductory paragraphs are extracted below: Regulation 123 of the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 (as amended) restricts the use of planning obligations for infrastructure that will be funded in whole or in part by the Community Infrastructure Levy. The Regulation 123 list contains generic types of infrastructure that may be funded using CIL receipts, with the exception of specific on-site infrastructure or direct mitigation measures and specifically of the strategic development sites. The list below sets out those infrastructure projects that South Oxfordshire District Council may wholly or partly fund by the CIL. The inclusion of a project or type of infrastructure on this list does not signify a commitment from the council to fund (either in whole or in part) the listed project or type of infrastructure through CIL. The order in the table does not imply any order of preference for spend and the council will review this list on an annual basis, as part of its monitoring of CIL collection and spend. This list will be updated on a regular basis. It is anticipated that CIL receipts will be limited in the first years after adoption, given that contributions are not payable until commencement of development. In accordance with the CIL Regulation 59A, this council will pass 15% of relevant CIL receipts to the Town/Parish Council for that area, capped at £100 per dwelling on existing dwellings. If the Town/Parish Council adopts a Neighbourhood Plan, this percentage will be increased to 25% (uncapped). This will be passed onto the Town/Parish Councils on a 6 monthly basis in accordance with the CIL Regulations.

The “strategic sites” are North-East Didcot, Ladygrove-East Didcot and Site B Wallingford. The treatment of recreation and leisure in the Regulation 123 list is as in Figure 4. This approach means that some projects will be able to be funded both by S106 monies, particularly from the “strategic sites”, and from CIL contributions. It also clarifies that some sport and leisure provision is expected to be delivered on site, as well as contributions being made towards off site provision.


Figure 4: Recreation and leisure on the Reg 123 List

Infrastructure type or project (to be funded through CIL)

Exclusions (to be secured through S106 and other statutory provision). The strategic sites North-East Didcot, Ladygrove-East Didcot, and Site B Wallingford are referred to as the Strategic Sites

Recreation, sport and leisure Recreation, sports and leisure facilities other than site specific requirements

On-site provision, of recreation, sports and leisure facilities in accordance with policy requirements and to make development acceptable in planning terms. On and off-site provision of recreation, sports and leisure facilities to serve development at the Strategic Sites.

Open space, play, allotment and biodiversity - Play areas - Allotments Other than site specific requirements

On-site provision of - open space - play areas - allotments in accordance with policy requirements

This Reg 123 list is, however, no longer in line with the most recent but unpublished

Sport England guidance (CIL and Planning Obligations Advice Note v2 10/04/17) which states:

“Where CIL is in place ensure any sporting provision to be placed on the Reg 123 list is: 1. project specific so it does not unnecessarily restrict the use of planning obligations; 2. focused on high level priority projects of a strategic nature that CIL has potential to

deliver rather than a long list of projects that CIL will never be able to fund. This will allow the potential for other projects to be funded by planning obligations;

3. backed by strong high level officer and political support within the LA so that there is some confidence that CIL funds will be directed to the sporting provision.

Unless provision is to be provided entirely on site then relying on a generic policy approach and/or the application of quantitative local standards are unlikely to meet the CIL 122 tests. Evidence is required of the specific needs that will be generated by an individual development and why they cannot be met by existing provision. Where any works are proposed to meet the needs they should be identified, justified and proportionate to the development. As far as is practically possible it should be demonstrated that the identified works are deliverable within a set timeframe”.

The South Oxfordshire Reg 123 list therefore requires reviewing in relation to sport and

recreation, so as not to fall down on CIL Reg 122 policy and/or CIL pooling restrictions. Without such a review there is a high risk that significant funding that might have otherwise been secured through s106, will not be achieved.


Infrastructure Delivery Plans (IDPs) set down the priorities for investment. SODC published an updated Infrastructure Delivery Plan – Stage 1 in March 2017 (South Oxfordshire District Council, 2017). This document states that the IDP process is based on three stages, two of which are addressed in this document. The final stage of the IDP; the Delivery Plan Schedule was published (in draft) in September 2017. The methodology set out in 4.3 of the IDP – Stage 1 state that:

The demand forecast set out in this IDP is based on the level and distribution of housing development which is being tested at this stage of the plan making process. This includes:

Committed housing developments (as of October 2016) Core Strategy and Neighbourhood Plan allocations which have not yet been

built out. Growth at the preferred strategic growth locations – Chalgrove (total of 3,500

homes), Culham (total of 4,000 homes) and a large Brownfield site at Wheatley (300 homes).

Growth-led regeneration at Berinsfield (total of up to 2,100 homes) Additional growth of the towns and large villages of around 10%, as set out in

the Preferred Options 1 consultation in June 2016.

The figures also include an assumed level of growth across unspecified smaller settlements. For the purposes of this assessment, this is spread across the district.

The relevant elements of the March 2017 IDP have been extracted from the South Oxfordshire Sports Facilities Strategy December 2016, and Playing Pitch Strategy September 2016. The standards of provision in both the Sports Facilities Strategy and Playing Pitch Strategy of 2017 will supersede those set out in the 2016 documents.

Specific projects outlined in the Draft South Oxfordshire Infrastructure Delivery Plan Schedule are provided in Figure 6 . It should be noted that the proposals for additional pitch space in Wallingford (WAL7 and WAL8) appear to have been made in error. The project description for proposals at Wallingford relate to sites in Thame.

The South Oxfordshire Playing Pitch Strategy September 2016 makes the following

proposals for Wallingford:

Confirm and deliver expansion of site (2 x adult pitches) linked to adjacent housing. Confirm if for football or rugby

Develop a full size WR22 AGP for rugby and football use, subject to feasibility and availability of funding.

In addition, the Draft Infrastructure Plan incorrectly refers to the development

additional 3G hockey capacity under THA8. It is assumed that this should refer to the development of additional AGP hockey capacity, through either sand or water based AGP(s) as a 3G surface is not suitable for hockey matches.


The flowchart set out below in Figure 5 should be used to determine whether a project should be delivered through s106 contributions or CIL.

Figure 5 is set out in the South Oxfordshire Delivering Infrastructure Strategy (November

2014) which provides the rationale for providing infrastructure across the authority.

Essentially, Figure 5 demonstrates that where a development is large enough to warrant the provision of a facility, (to make the development acceptable in planning terms) this should be financed through a s106 contribution.

However, if the development only produces a proportion of the need for a new facility,

the finance can be pooled together via CIL (Figure 4).

As both the adopted CIL Regulation 113 list (April 2016) and revised CIL Regulation 123 list (August 2017) do not refer to the specific provision of sports facilities, the future provision of sports facilities via CIL will have to compete against the needs of other infrastructure types (e.g. education and transport).

SODC are currently working on a CIL spending strategy which may help address issues

in the allocation of CIL monies for the provision of sport facilities.

Figure 5: Criteria for determining source of project finance


Figure 6: Draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan schedule 2017

Ref Location Intervention Project description Scheme

Status Delivery Partners

Current Estimate of Cost

Potential Delivery Phasing

Baseline Source

DID10 Didcot New artificial grass pitch provision

Confirm proposals at St Birinus School: one full size 3G pitch at the proposed leisure centre in Didcot North East, with space set aside for an adjacent second full size pitch; confirm and deliver full size 3G pitch at Valley Park.

Project scoped but not yet progressed

To discuss with SODC

tbc tbc Playing Pitch Strategy priority

DID11 Didcot New grass playing pitch provision

Bring into use the proposed grass playing field sites at Valley Park and Didcot North East; Longer term potential development of new cricket grounds in Valley Park and Didcot North East




GOR7 Goring New artificial grass pitch provision

one 3G pitch Project scoped but not yet progressed



SON8 Sonning Common

New grass playing pitch provision

Training size grass pitch Project scoped but not yet progressed




THA8 Thame New artificial grass pitch provision

Develop additional 3G capacity for hockey; additional 3G pitch at Meadow View Park; full size 3G pitch at Oxford Road as part of mitigation for the loss of playing fields at Lord Williams School (needs to be confirmed); training pitch at Chinnor RFC




THA9 Thame New grass playing pitch provision

Expand the number of pitches and developing a training pith at Chinnor RFC




WAL7 Wallingford New artificial grass pitch provision

Develop additional 3G capacity for hockey; additional 3G pitch at Meadow View Park; full size 3G pitch at Oxford Road as part of mitigation for the loss of playing fields at Lord Williams School (needs to be confirmed); training pitch at Chinnor RFC




WAL8 Wallingford New grass playing pitch provision

Expand the number of pitches and developing a training pith at Chinnor RFC




WAT6 Watlington New artificial grass pitch provision

Full size 3G pitch Project scoped but not yet progressed



DW13 District wide

499m³ swimming pool space

To meet existing and newly arising demand

Project scoped but

To discuss

tbc tbc Modelled demand


not yet progressed

with SODC

DW14 District wide

8 health and fitness studios





DW15 District wide

1 indoor tennis court





DW16 District wide

5 squash court To meet existing and newly arising demand




DW17 District wide

3 outdoor bowling greens





DW18 District wide

21 outdoor tennis courts




tbc tbc Consultation with providers


Joint Didcot Infrastructure Delivery Plan Live Document (2013)

The Joint Didcot Infrastructure Delivery Plan (Didcot IDP) forms part of the Evidence Base of the South Oxfordshire Core Strategy but was a joint infrastructure plan for Didcot for the two authorities; the Vale of White Horse District and South Oxfordshire District. It is a live document which is expected to be updated throughout the plan period. It is designed to link to the development of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).

This 2013 Didcot IDP has in part been superseded by the latest IDP (2015), and by the updated sport strategies.

The 2013 document categorises infrastructure as critical, necessary or preferred, with

the following definitions:

Risk to the Core Strategy

Definition

Critical The identified infrastructure is critical, and development cannot commence without it being in place. E.g. transport/utility infrastructure

Necessary The identified infrastructure is also critical to support new development, but the precise timing and phasing is less critical and development can commence ahead of its provision. E.g. schools/primary health care

Preferred The delivery of the identified infrastructure is preferred in order to build sustainable communities. Timing and phasing is not critical over the plan period. E.g. libraries, green infrastructure, youth provision.

The key relevant infrastructure requirements the Joint Didcot IDP are:

• Transport o Necessary

Provision of local pedestrian and cycle links, including to/from schools, shops etc, as a “necessary

Science Vale UK Strategic Cycle Network as part of an integrated package of strategic transport schemes

• Social infrastructure o Necessary

3 x primary schools 2 x secondary schools at NE Didcot and Great Western Park New Didcot Sports Facility of approx £15m Multi use games areas at one per 5,000 people

o Preferred 3 x Multi Use Games Areas; one at Didcot Sports Facility; 2 at Great

Western Park Improve quality of existing tennis courts and add additional 4 courts


2 x 3G pitches 5 x cricket pitches (2 as a result of new development) 2 x rugby pitches (1 as a result of new development) 22 junior/mini pitches (11 as a result of new development)

• Green infrastructure o Preferred

Each site to demonstrate that they can meet their requirement for Green Infrastructure to a standard to be agreed by the district council or contribution off-site

Provision of internal greenways for walkers, cyclists and horse riders.

• Site Specific Infrastructure Need – North East Growth Area (SODC) o Necessary

Provision of pedestrian and cycle routes within site and linking to local services and the national cycle network

2 x primary schools 1 x secondary school

o Preferred Good walking and cycling links Neighbourhood centre including a community centre Allotments (1.38 ha) unless no need shown Children’s play (approx 3.7 ha in total) Amenity green space at 10% of the total site area, which can be

negotiated to be transferred to the town/parish council with a commuted sum for 15 years at £23.57 per sq m.

• Site Specific Infrastructure Need – Orchard Centre Phase 2

o Contributions towards school, community facilities etc o Preferred

Allotments (0.2 ha) unless no need shown Children’s play (approx 0.6 ha in total) Amenity green space at 10% of the total site area, which can be

negotiated to be transferred to the town/parish council with a commuted sum for 15 years at £23.57 per sq m.

The IDP also covers Valley Park which is in the Vale of White Horse district.

As the IDP is a live document, changes can be made to it. The findings of the strategy

reports will be used to update the IDP, as well as informing the Local Plan. Infrastructure Delivery Plan (Feb 2015)

The 2015 IDP includes:

• A new leisure centre at Didcot (£22.6m excluding land) • A new leisure centre at Berinsfield


• Indoor and outdoor sports: Contribution towards the provision, maintenance and enhancement of local indoor and outdoor sports provisions. Requirements to be identified in up to date leisure strategies and policies.

• Community: Contribution towards the provision, maintenance and enhancement of local community facilities, including community halls, allotments, parks, public art and public open space.

Justifying Developers’ Contributions

In relation to the justification of developers contributions under S106, the NPPF states that “assessments should identify specific needs and quantitative or qualitative deficits or surpluses of open space, sports and recreational facilities in the local area and information gained from the assessments should be used to determine what open space, sports and recreational provision is required”.

The request for developer contributions must meet the three CIL tests; fairly and

reasonably related in scale and kind to the development. There is therefore a need to assess the scale of the contributions from a specific housing development, which in turn must be based on the amount of anticipated demand for specific sports facilities, playing fields, or open space which is expected to be generated by the housing scheme. The “standards of provision” for each facility type and open space are given in the new strategy reports, and will provide this tool once adopted. It is expected that for the largest housing schemes, this assessment will usually lead to a requirement for new provision on site (with suitable land at no cost), for example for new football pitches with their ancillary facilities.

Prior to the adoption of the new standards in the new strategy reports, the S106

assessment of demand generated by a housing scheme will be based on the existing adopted standards. There are a number of detailed standards for sports facilities, playing fields and open space, and these are summarised in Appendix 2.

On some sites where there is sufficient accessible capacity in the locality already to

absorb the estimated new demand, but there is a need for investment to improve the quality of existing facilities e.g. improvements to a changing pavilion, pitch quality, or the resurfacing of tennis courts, then the developers contributions under the S106 arrangements will be expected to be allocated towards these off-site improvements.

The need to potentially provide significant suitable areas for sports on site within new

developments can have a major impact on both a site’s viability and the options for the masterplanning. Such provision must therefore be considered at the very earliest stages of any development.

Other policies Didcot Leisure Sub Area (2014)

As sport and recreation needs to be considered in a cross-boundary way and there was an earlier need to inform the Vale of White Horse’s Local Plan, a report was produced


in 2014 for the Didcot area, known as the Didcot Leisure Sub Area (DLSA). This area broadly covered the new housing growth in and around Didcot, and recognised that the new residents would use facilities within their travel area regardless of administrative boundaries. The area was an indicative envelope around the major new development sites, rather than a defined catchment area.

With the introduction of the Didcot Garden Town and the new housing and employment

proposals being proposed in the Local Plans across the Science Vale area, it is not appropriate to retain a separate Didcot Leisure Sub Area. The DLSA report is however a useful tool in understanding the wider sub-area, when updated by the latest strategies work.

There is still a need however to consider the cross-boundary issues and implications of

sports facility demand and supply, and the refreshed strategies do this in a way which more effectively informs the emerging policies for both the Garden Town and Science Vale areas.


NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANS

To date there are in the region of 40 neighbourhood plans being prepared in South Oxfordshire. These include towns, larger villages and smaller villages. At the time of publication, neighbourhood development plans have been made at Henley and Harpsden, Thame, Sonning Common and Woodcote. The Council continues to support the creation of neighbourhood development plans across the district. The made plans allocate new homes as follows:

Neighbourhood Development Plan Net number of dwellings Henley: 500 Thame: 775 Sonning Common: 195 (+34 including reserve sites)* Woodcote: 76

Berinsfield

The Berinsfield Neighbourhood Plan was subject to independent examination in April 2016. The plan was found not to meet the basic conditions or the tests for legal compliance. The Parish Council and the District Council are currently discussing the possible ways forward.

The plan included a proposal to redevelop/replace the Abbey Sports Centre for which

the preference would be to keep a swimming pool. No mention is made of the existing, poor quality artificial grass pitch in this regard. The grass playing fields and pavilion are recognised as important community facilities, but there are no specific proposals.

Joint Henley and Harpsden Neighbourhood Plan (Made April 2016)

On 14 April 2016 the Henley and Harpsden Neighbourhood Plan (South Oxfordshire District Council , 2016) was officially “made”, and as such, forms part of the Development Plan.

The plan responds to the requirement for the area to provide 450 new homes, and the

Examiner appears to have supported an increase to 500 houses. Three sites within the neighbourhood plan have implications for pitch sports.

Gillotts School Field (site C)

The neighbourhood plan includes within the proposed housing sites, Gillotts School (3.5 ha), but notes that the 50 proposed housing units are above the number required in the Core Strategy. This proposal will affect sport and recreation through the loss of playing field space. The plan states that the provision of alternative sports facilities will have to be implemented before the release of any playing fields for development. The detailed policy is provided at SP11. The area is shown in the plan, see Figure 7.


The independent examiner confirmed the Gillotts School site as appropriate for development but suggested that there should be a change of wording in Policy SCI2 to read: “The renewal of Gillotts School will be supported subject to it resulting in the provision of alternative enhanced sports facilities to those that currently exist.”

Sport England raised their concerns about the loss of the playing field space at Gillotts

School in their submission for the draft Neighbourhood Plan in a letter dated March 2015. Sport England took the view that “unless and until the playing pitch strategy for South Oxfordshire has been completed and clearly identifies playing field land at Gillotts School as being surplus to requirements or a suitable replacement can be identified, the land should not be allocated for housing development in the Neighbourhood Plan.”

No new playing field area has been identified to replace the proposed loss of playing

field space at Gillotts School, so this remains a key issue and is addressed in detail within the Playing Pitch Strategy report.

Figure 7: Gillotts School housing proposal Source: Neighbourhood Plan

357 Reading Road (site J)

The Reading Road proposal will impact upon the changing and car parking which currently service the sports use of Jubilee Park for football, hockey and athletics training. Jubilee Park is directly south of the development site, across the road.

Policy SP5: 357 Reading Road (Site J), see Figure 8 for map, states: Within the area

defined on the Neighbourhood Plan Key Diagram the 357 Reading Road site is allocated for: a) Up to 30 residential units; b) Replacement car parking for Henley Hockey and AFC Henley facilities, if required; c) Up to 200sqm retail; d) Permission should not be granted prior to the opening of replacement community sports facilities currently located on the site. The independent examiner confirmed this site for development but clarified the


process in relation to point (d) which was recommended to be changed to “Development should not start prior to...”

Figure 8: 357 Reading Road housing proposal Source: Neighbourhood Plan

There are no specific proposals on how the car parking will be replaced, and the playing field area protected and enhanced on the Jubilee Park. This is therefore also a key issue to be addressed, and is considered in more detail within the Playing Pitch Strategy report.

Highlands Farm (site M)

This site lies to the south west of the town as is slightly separated from the main urban area. The site is approximately 6.2 ha in total and is largely a brownfield site but which contains a disused single adult size pitch, see Figure 9. The neighbourhood plan policy requires: • Playing pitches and indoor changing facilities conforming with policy SC11. • The Design Brief prepared for this site should .... demonstrate how the proposed

development has appropriately: incorporated and reinforced or reprovided the existing landscaping and pitches........


Figure 9: Highlands Farm, Greys Road Source: Neighbourhood Plan

The planning application submitted for the site has now been approved. When developing the pitches on the site, a qualified and suitably experienced specialist pitch agronomist should be employed to assess the quality of the site and to provide advice on the development of the pitches, which must meet Football Association standards.

Development should not start prior to the opening of replacement community sports

facilities currently located on the site, and;

a) Pitches to be 2 x U11/U12 junior pitches (dimensions 73m x 46m) b) The pitches are to be set in public open space, and also within a wider flat pitch

area so allowing a surrounding a c3m run off area and flexibility of use. c) Pitch slopes if at all possible to be <1.25% in the direction of play and <2.5% across

the field of play. d) The adjacent community centre to have appropriate changing facilities with 2

changing rooms with showers and toilets with separate direct access to the pitch, and an inside space for refreshments with a small kitchenette (the inside space does not need to be separate and should be part of the main community hall facility).

e) Storage for goalposts and relevant kit, either as part of the community centre, or in a new secure storage building/structure adjacent.

f) Secured long-term community use. g) An agreed and enforceable management plan for the wider open space area so as

to allow pitch management balanced with public access. h) Discussion on the site management could be held with AFC Henley. It would be

appropriate to have either an established football club or the Parish Council manage the site given the need to manage use.

i) As well as providing the land at no cost, and undertaking the capital works up to hand-over in a playable condition, the developer should provide a maintenance contribution of £77,113 (standard maintenance contribution based on FA’s maintenance cost per ha x 0.8135ha x 20 years).


j) Within the main public open space a Local Equipped Area for Play should be provided to the latest Fields in Trust Status (no Neighbourhood Equipped Area for Play required).

k) The provision of a suitably located trim trail with 12 items (example: standard range of Kompan equipment).

In addition, there must be sufficient space provided for parking associated with the use

of the pitches at peak time. The potential that Highlands Farm can offer to football is included within the Playing Pitch Strategy report.

Local items for CIL funding

The local items for CIL funding included in the Neighbourhood Plan are, in priority order:

1. Transport Strategy 2. Transport Strategy implementation (including strategic cycle routes) 3. Community hall/multi-service centres (including youth centre component) 4. Outdoor trim trails 5. Playing pitches 6. Skate park

Sonning Common Neighbourhood Plan (Made October 2016)

This Neighbourhood Plan was subject to independent examination and the report was issued in May 2016. The Plan passed through a referendum in September 2016 and was made in October 2016.

The plan places significant emphasis on the need to address identified sport and

recreation deficiencies in the parish and the adjoining parts of Kidmore End and Rotherfield Peppard.

Identified sports shortfalls include: amenity green space 3.26 ha; community sports hall

30m x 30m (without full height roof); floodlit artificial grass pitch – 60m x 40m; full sized multi-use games area (MUGA/tennis facility); senior 9 – strip cricket pitch 111.84 x 115.58 with extensive use for cricket; a mix of youth and mini football pitches; space for other activities (fitness trail/outdoor gym) and; sufficient parking for all necessary community use.

The most significant proposal is for the development of site SON3 (Memorial Hall Field)

opposite Chiltern Edge School, an area of 5.3 ha to provide some additional sports space. The concept for this site includes provision of sports pitches, MUGA, community hall, access and parking (at least 60 spaces). This site is also identified as a potential long term location for Kennylands Gym. All facilities to Sport England standards. No other details are provided, for example in relation to the amount of playing field space, type of pitch to be provided or provision of changing facilities.


The Neighbourhood Plan does propose however the sale of part of the current playing fields at Chiltern Edge School for housing. The school has been granted approval from the Department of Education for this disposal.

The existing gymnastics facility, Kennylands Gym, in addressed in SON8. Phase 1 is for

a small development on the northern part of the site to support investment in the infrastructure of the gymnastics facility. The remainder of SON8 is to be made available as a reserve site for development only when and if the parish council is able to source an equivalent facility on SON3 (the Memorial Hall Field) and the replacement site is operational.

The importance and options for the SON3 site are addressed within the report

recommendations, both the Playing Pitch Strategy and the Sports Facilities Strategy. Thame Neighbourhood Plan

The Thame Neighbourhood Plan became a made plan in July 2013. The relevant extracts from the plan are given below.

The plan’s overall future vision includes:

• An additional 775 homes • 3 ha of new employment land • New retail within the town centre • Potential locations for a community facility • New and improved connections within the town • New and improved open spaces

The majority of the new homes are allocated between three sites;

Site C: South east of the town, close to the Chinnor Road (187 dwellings), including 11.8 ha landscaped publicly accessible open space. Site D: South of the town close to Thame Park Road (175 dwellings + 18 dwellings + 12 dwellings), including 13.2 ha landscaped publicly accessible open space. Site F: North of Oxford Road (203 dwellings). 9.4 ha of residential space, 17 ha landscaped publicly accessible open space, 1.4 ha for the expansion of Lord Williams’s School, 2 ha for a primary school site.

There are also two sites identified within the town, land at

The Elms: Max of 45 dwellings. 1 ha minimum of landscaped publicly accessible open space.


The Lord Williams’s Lower School (LWLS): Two parts of the proposal: “off site” which is an area of playing fields on the north side of Towersey Road, and “school side” which is on the south side of Towersey Road and comprises education buildings and playing fields. 135 dwellings on the southern part of the site. 1.9 ha of public open space in either the southern area or more likely where there are existing playing fields (on the northern site).

The school wishes to move the Lower School onto the Upper School site. The plan notes

that the school amalgamation is still at an early stage of discussion and is not confirmed. Alternatives would be to increase the amount of housing at Oxford Road (site F) and at site C.

Sports facility issues

The proposals to develop the Lord Williams’s Lower School site would require the development on two areas of playing fields. The “school side” pitches (south of Towersey Road) are currently used by Chinnor Rugby Club for 2.5 hours per week, but the playing fields are not otherwise booked during the winter months for sport. The loss of playing field space to enable the relocation of the school would need to satisfy the tests set down in the National Planning Policy Framework.

Other uses of the lower school facilities included significant use for gymnastics,

basketball, netball, cricket training, and dance. The Plan suggests that the sports hall and the Phoenix Centre at the Lord Williams’s Lower School site could be retained and refurbished as a community facility if the remainder of the site was developed for housing.

A sports facility strategy was commissioned by Thame Town Council to consider the

various implications of the Neighbourhood Plan. The final report (March 2015) has been taken into account within this study. The report was co-ordinated by Thame Town Council and involved Lord Williams’s School and local sports clubs including: Chinnor RFC, Thame Hockey Club, Thame Cricket Club, and Thame Football Partnership.

Sport England provided pre-application advice to the school and its agents on 26

November 2015. The letter states that Sport England does not consider the Thame Sports Facility Strategy to be robust. Sport England concludes that the proposed development does not accord with the circumstances described in any of the exceptions in Sport England’s Planning Policy Statement, or with Paragraph 74 of the NPPF.

Sport England however acknowledges that the principle of residential development on

the Lower School site is established in Policy H1 of the Neighbourhood Plan. This is dependent on the production of a Sports Facility Strategy containing recommendations for playing pitches which, in turn, must be included in a Design Brief for the site.

Sport England further states that the emerging district-wide playing pitch strategy will

provide a robust and up-to-date assessment of the need for playing pitches. It will


contain an action plan for the North-East sub-area, which includes Thame. Once this has been adopted, it should be used to inform both the design brief and a mitigation package for the loss of playing pitches and other sporting facilities on the site.

Sport England reserved the right to object to any subsequent planning application.

It is noted that sports pitches are not generally included within the Thame

Neighbourhood Plan as sports facilities, as they are protected by higher level planning policy (National Planning Policy Framework). However, the cricket club site is included, but only in relation to its landscape and visual importance to Thame.

Sports pitch provision for new developments are anticipated to be negotiated by the

district council on a site-by-site basis, and may either be on-site provision or a financial contribution to off-site provision.

The implications of the proposed changes at Lord Williams’s Upper and Lower Schools

are addressed within the report recommendations, both in the Playing Pitch Strategy and the Sports Facilities Strategy.

Woodcote Neighbourhood Plan 2013-2027 (Made 2014)

The Woodcote Neighbourhood Plan was formally made part of the Council’s Development Plan in May 2014. It applies to the Parish of Woodcote, and the plan objectives cover the topics of: housing; environment; pedestrians, traffic and transport; economy; and community. The topic of environment includes the protection and enhancement of the village’s open spaces.

The plan area currently has around 2,604 residents, with over 25% being aged 60 years

plus.

The plan recognises that the area has good community and recreational facilities including a good village hall.

The plan notes that there is reasonable access to Reading, Henley, Goring and

Wallingford for multi-purpose sports halls, hockey, rugby and mini soccer. New housing

Planning permission will be granted for a minimum of 73 new homes to be built in Woodcote in the period up to 2027. There will be a maximum of 24 new homes on any one site.


CORPORATE DOCUMENTS Corporate Plan 2016-2020

This plan (South Oxfordshire District Council , 2016) is a four year rolling plan. The plan provides a framework for the Council to develop detailed service plans and for allocation of resources through the budget and growth bid process.

The Strategic objectives for 2016-2020 are:

• Invest in the district's future • Unlock the potential of Didcot • Homes and jobs for everyone • Build thriving communities • Services that reflect residents' needs • Be tough on enforcement.

The Plan has the following relevant specific objectives:

Invest in the district's future • We will provide new leisure facilities by:

o Building a new leisure centre at Didcot o Planning for future leisure needs in the district o Following adoption of the Local Plan and housing allocations, and agreement

on facilities at the new Didcot leisure centre, considering the need for a new indoor leisure facility elsewhere in the district.

Build thriving communities

• We will help people to be healthy and active by:

o Increasing the number of people using leisure centres o Supporting the government drive to increase sport and activity in schools o Working with Sustrans to improve provision of cycle routes in the district o Piloting the introduction of a cycle hire scheme in one of our market towns o Increasing participation in activity and sport to improve health.

Sustainable Community Strategy

South Oxfordshire District Council’s Sustainable Communities Strategy 2009-2036 “Our place, our future” provides the overarching vision for the district. It balances and integrates the social, economic and environmental aspects of communities across the district; meets the needs of the existing and future generations; and respects the needs of other communities in the wider region or internationally to make their own communities sustainable.


The vision for the strategy is that South Oxfordshire will be an attractive, successful,

vibrant and safe place where people choose to live, work and visit. It will be a place where everyone can enjoy: a good place to live; a strong sense of community where diversity in people and place is respected and valued; and access to the services and facilities they need to support good health and social and economic well-being.

The environment priorities include improving the quality of and access to our public

open and green spaces. The strong communities priorities include improving access to services and facilities for local people, particularly those who need support because of deprivation, health or access issues. The healthy communities priorities include increasing participation in sport and active recreation.


SECTION 3: CHARACTER OF SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS AND CHANGE Current population

The total population in 2017 (as estimated by Oxfordshire County Council in 2017) is 143,499, and there is expected to be growth in the period up to 2033, although the forecast only goes up to 2032, by which time the district is expected to have increased up to around 182,076 people.

The current population structure of South Oxfordshire District is slightly different from

the national, and this has an impact on the demand for some of the sports facilities. Figure 10 illustrates the current population profile, and the dip in the number of those aged 15 through to 39 years should be noted. This dip is particularly important for the demand for sports halls and in relation to the grass pitch sports of football and rugby. Conversely, the number of people aged over 45 years is generally slightly higher for each of the 5 year age groups.

Figure 10: South Oxfordshire current population structure compared to England

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The previous sports strategies for South Oxfordshire District and the reports of 2016 have used different sub areas. The Leisure and Sports Facilities Strategy 2011 used a simplistic hub and spoke approach to assessing the balance between the supply and demand for sports facilities, whilst the 2016 report used sub areas based on the 2014 ward boundaries.

The refreshed strategies of 2017 use sub areas now based on the 2015 ward boundaries.

These sub areas have been agreed with key stakeholders, including the District Council, Sport England and the pitch sports national governing bodies, for football, rugby, cricket and hockey.

The new sub areas recognise that there is no “simple fit” to any other sub areas being

used by the District Council, such as the Didcot Garden Town, and the new sub areas also needed to reflect the practical experiences of sports participants across the district, such as:

• club feedback for the 2016 strategy suggested that the Goring area clubs drew their

members from their local area but also have links with Reading, and the clubs around Watlington drew primarily from that area. It is more therefore more appropriate to link Goring to the south of the district rather than the Watlington area.

• the importance of key facilities such as Wallingford Sports Park, which meets much

of the needs from Didcot as well as a fairly wide area around Wallingford.

There is also a need to assess the supply and demand relating to Wallingford, Berinsfield, Culham and Didcot together, whilst separately identifying the potential impact of the major development at Chalgrove Airfield.

The sub areas are mapped in Figure 3.


Current population differences across South Oxfordshire

Figure 10 shows that there is currently some difference in population size between the sub areas, with the West area being the largest as this contains Didcot. The West is also expected to grow the most, whilst there is some growth anticipated in the North but relatively limited growth in the South sub area.

The impact of this growth is assessed in detail within each facility type and pitch sport

section of the strategies, but in summary, there is likely to be significantly more demand for sports facilities in the West as this area grows, some additional demand in the North, but limited extra demand in the South.

Figure 11: Sub area populations 2017 - 2032

Figure 12 compares the current population profile of each of the sub areas with that of England. This shows that the West, with its recent increases in population, generally has a much younger age profile than either the North or South areas of the district, but that the North and South have a higher percentage of older people than either the national average or the West.

These age profiles and the forecast populations have a significant impact on the demand

for different sports and activities across the district. For example, a large majority of pitch sports players (football, rugby and hockey) are aged under 45 years, whilst other activities attract older age groups, notably bowls, where the average age is around 70 years. The demand for swimming falls with age, as does the demand for sports hall activities.

These differences between the sub areas in terms of their demographics are important

in determining the future demand for facilities in different areas. Each sports facility and pitch sport has therefore been assessed at the sub area level, and recommendations for future provision tailored to the needs of each area.

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The population demographics derived from the housing targets set out in the Core Strategy and Local Plan 2033 second Preferred Options document (March 2017) have been modelled by Oxfordshire County Council on behalf of SODC and are for the period up to 2032, although the Local Plan period runs to 2033. These demographic forecasts underpin the assessment of future demand for all the built sports facilities and the playing pitches. If the housing proposals change in the future, this will need to be taken into account in a future review of the strategies.

The demographic forecasts from Oxfordshire County Council were provided by ward, by single age and by sex. These have been combined to provide the sub area demographics.

The total population of the authority is expected to rise from around 143,500 in 2017,

to around 182,100 by 2032. The impact of this growth at the sub area level is illustrated by Figure 13, which shows that the West sub area, with its relatively high levels of planned growth will result in more people in almost every age group. This compares with the more stable populations of the North and West. The planned housing growth in the North is resulting in more young children and also more middle-aged residents. There is also an increase in the older age groups, which will be primarily from the existing residents aging. The South area is expected to have the most stable population with a small increase in middle-aged adults and older people, plus pre-school, but otherwise limited growth.

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The growth in young-middle aged adults and young families will be primarily within the larger housing developments. Modelling work to assess the impact of major new housing growth has been undertaken elsewhere, and it has demonstrated that there is a very different age profile for sustainable urban extensions (SUEs) compared to well-established areas. This has been confirmed by work undertaken by the West Northamptonshire authorities, by Milton Keynes Council, and by Harlow Council.

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Church Langley in Harlow. The Church Langley site has aged a little, but the influx of those aged 30-49 is very clear, with a corresponding growth in young children. Conversely, the relative numbers of people aged about 50 years and over are much fewer, and those reaching the older ages within the period have probably been amongst the first to arrive in the new developments.

Figure 14: Population profile across SUEs: Harlow and Milton Keynes

The population age structure of an area is important, as many sports primarily attract those aged under 45 years, particularly the pitch based sports. In terms of open spaces, the high numbers of children and young people in the SUEs confirm the need for good provision in relation to children’s play and youth facilities.

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS Deprivation

While South Oxfordshire District is generally a relatively affluent area (it is ranked 307 out of 353 in England on the Index of Multiple Deprivation), there are some pockets of more significant deprivation, illustrated by the map in Figure 15, around Berinsfield and Didcot.

Figure 15: Map of Index of Multiple Deprivation

(source: Oxfordshire Insight)

Black and Minority Ethnic Population

The 2011 Census (ONS, 2012) provides information on the ethnic mix across the district. South Oxfordshire had a relatively low proportion of residents from an ethnic minority (non-white British) background at the time of the census. The largest ethnic minority group was ‘other white’ which made up almost half (47%) of the total ethnic minority population in South Oxfordshire. There were 12,400 people resident in South Oxfordshire as of March 2011 who were born outside the UK. Around 6,000 of these were from other European countries including Poland (1,026), Germany (917) and Ireland (851).


Health

Public Health England’s South Oxfordshire Health Profile for 2016 (Figure 16) (Public Health England, 2016) shows that generally the population is relatively healthy and life expectancy is not significantly different for people in the most deprived areas than the least deprived. The health priorities for the district are identified as being: to reduce obesity in children and adults, to increase physical activity, and to improve access to screening programmes.

Figure 16: Health profile for South Oxfordshire


The cost of physical inactivity in South Oxfordshire per 100,000 people per year based on estimates by the British Heart Foundation (Sport England , 2017) in 2009/10 was £1,367,630. This is somewhat lower than either the South East regional average of £1,580,313 or the national average of £1,817,285.

Economic development

Sport and recreation facilities and green infrastructure can both support employment opportunities directly and indirectly. Sport England estimates that the value of sport and active recreation based on their Economic Value of Sport research (Sport England, 2017) for South Oxfordshire is:

• Gross Value Added (GVA) wages and operating profits in 2013:

o GVA from people participating in sport: £33.8m o GVA from wider non participation interests: £8.1m o Total (£m) £41.9m

• Total sports related jobs (both participation and wider non-participation interests)

in 2013: o 1,310

• Economic value of health benefits of participating in sport and active recreation in

2013: o £51.1m

• Total sporting business stock (sports businesses) in 2016:

o 110 businesses o Equates to 1.24% of South Oxfordshire’s local economy – which is higher

than the national average of 1.04%, and the regional average of 1.18%.

• Economic value of sports volunteering in 2013: o £22.6m

The positive effects sport, recreation and open space use has on mental health and well-

being could be capitalised upon to support people back to work through volunteer programmes, which in turn could boost self-confidence and self-esteem in support of a full time employment opportunity.


PARTICIPATION IN SPORT AND ACTIVE RECREATION

Sport England released its first report called Active Lives in January 2017 (Sport England, 2017). Active Lives is broader than the previous Active People Survey as it includes walking and cycling for both leisure and travel, dance and gardening, in addition to the sporting and fitness activities included in the previous Active People Survey.

Figure 17 shows the levels of activity of adults aged 16+ years in the authority and its

CIPFA benchmark comparator authorities. The definitions are:

Moderate activity: This is defined as activity where you raise your heart rate and feel a little out of breath. Vigorous activity: This is where you are breathing hard and fast and your heart rate has increased significantly (you will not be able to say more than a few words without pausing for breath). Moderate intensity equivalent (MIE) minutes: means each ‘moderate’ minute counts as one minute. Any vigorous activity counts for double, so each vigorous minute counts as two moderate minutes. The 30 MIE minutes can be achieved in one go or in chunks of at least 10 minutes across different days through a combination of physical activities. Inactive: someone who, over the course of a week, does not achieve a total of 30 moderate intensity equivalent (MIE) minutes of physical activity. Fairly active: someone who is active for 30-149 minutes a week. Active: someone who is active for at least 150 minutes a week.

The data in Figure 17 shows that South Oxfordshire has more regularly active residents

than the national and regional averages, but that it is about the middle performing of the CIPFA comparators. The number of people who are inactive is about in line with the CIPFA comparators, and slightly below the regional average.

To deliver both the Public Health objective and the Corporate Plan objective of

increasing levels of activity, it is important to look in more detail at the patterns of participation, so that resources can be targeted to achieve the greatest impact.


Figure 17: Sport and physical activity levels for adults

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week) South Oxfordshire 18.2% 10.9% 70.9% East Hampshire 16.0% 10.9% 73.2% East Hertfordshire 15.5% 11.5% 73.0% Test Valley 23.9% 14.3% 61.8% Vale of White Horse 14.0% 15.6% 70.4% South East England 19.7% 12.3% 68.0% England 22.0% 12.6% 65.4%

The Active Lives Survey report shows that:

• more males are active than females • participation in sport and physical activity declines with age • activity levels for people with a disability decreases as the number of impairments

increase • the higher the socio-economic group, the more active • the difference between the number of men and women taking part is greatest for

sporting activities • several of the new activities that form Sport England’s extended remit are more

popular with women than with men.

These trends suggest that the priorities for South Oxfordshire are to retain the high level of existing activities, but also to encourage and support those people who are inactive or only fairly active to become more so. The investment priorities should be towards opportunities which are /can be made available to both young children and to older people, those in the lower socio-economic groups, and activities that attract women and girls. These opportunities relate to both built facilities for sport and recreation and open spaces, including walking and cycling routes.

The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which back the Government’s strategy, Sporting

Future, A New Strategy for an Active Nation (Dept for Culture, Media & Sport, 2015) and which are measured in Active Lives are:

KPI 1 – Increase in percentage of the population taking part in sport and physical activity at least twice in the last month KPI 2 – Decrease in percentage of people physically inactive KPI 3 – Increase in the percentage of adults utilising outdoor space for exercise/ health reasons KPI 4 – Increase in the percentage of children achieving physical literacy standards


KPI 5 – Increase in the percentage of children achieving swimming proficiency and Bikeability Levels 1-3 KPI 6 – Increase in the percentage of young people (11-18) with a positive attitude towards sport and being active.

Participation in sports in South Oxfordshire

Figure 18 shows the level of participation in the top five sports in the district, extracted from the Sport England Local Profile Tool (Sport England, 2017). Participation in athletics is higher than the national and regional average and is the most important activity in the district. It should be noted that the term “athletics” includes a wide range of activities from track based through to jogging.

Cycling participation levels are similar to the regional average, again above the national

average, and fitness classes are much more attractive in the district than in the region as a whole or across England. Meanwhile participation in swimming is lower than either the national or regional average, as are gym sessions.

These rates of participation are drawn from the Sport England Active People Survey

research and measure the percentage of adults participating at least once a month in the activity during 2015/16. The findings reflect the overall characteristics of the district, particularly the relatively older age profile because of the way that different activities attract people of different ages.

Figure 18: Top sports in South Oxfordshire with regional and national comparison

Sport South

Oxfordshire South East

England England

Athletics 10.6% 8.7% 7.1% Cycling 9.8% 9.8% 8.3% Fitness Class 8.9% 5.7% 4.9% Swimming 8.7% 10.0% 9.5% Gym Sessions 7.9% 11.6% 11.2%


Market Segmentation

Sport England has developed nineteen sporting segments to help understand individuals’ attitudes and motivations to sports and physical activity and this tool is a useful extension of the other socio-economic mapping available from elsewhere. It is available via the Sport England web site (Sport England , 2017). The information used to develop these segments is derived from information sourced primarily from the Active People Survey, but also from the census, and supplemented with information from other market research surveys. The segments represent different groups of population and each one is assigned a name by Sport England.

The Market Segmentation tool provides useful background information on the

demographics of an area, and the activities which different communities in different places are likely to be interested in. The tool is referred to within each of the sports strategy sections, as it gives a guide to the relative importance of different activities at a local and district level.

The intelligence provided by the Market Segmentation tool helps in the understanding

of why particular sports have more demand than others in an authority, and highlights any significant differences in areas across the authority. In turn this will help to identify which facility types should be the highest priority in each area. The nineteen segments are as follows (Figure 19).

Figure 19: Market Segments

Segment Type of person Name 1 Competitive Male Urbanites Ben 2 Sports Team Lads Jamie 3 Fitness Class Friends Chloe 4 Supportive Singles Leanne 5 Career Focused Females Helena 6 Settling Down Males Tim 7 Stay at Home Mums Alison 8 Middle England Mums Jackie 9 Pub League Team Mates Kiev 10 Stretched Single Mums Paula 11 Comfortable Mid-Life Males Philip 12 Empty Nest Career Ladies Elaine 13 Early Retirement Couples Roger & Joy 14 Older Working Women Brenda 15 Local ‘Old Boys’ Terry 16 Later Life Ladies Norma 17 Comfortable Retired Couples Ralph & Phyllis 18 Twilight Year Gents Frank 19 Retirement Home Singles Elsie & Arnold


Each of the nineteen segments is identified as having different characteristics in relation to patterns of physical activity. Appendix 3 provides more detail on the types of activities which appeal to each, and their motivation for participating in sport. The market segmentation data is available at local authority level as well as lower and middle super output areas.

Sport England expects the use of the Market Segmentation tool as part of the

assessment process for all sports strategies, and in this Strategy the information has been used in three ways.

• An authority-wide overview of the total population as a pie-chart (Figure 20) • The geographical distribution of dominant market segments by Middle Super

Output Area (MSOA), illustrated by the map at Figure 21. • Identification of key sports for the area (Figure 22).

It is important to note from the pie chart in Figure 20 that there are some market

segments which do not appear on the map in Figure 21. This is because although they are distributed widely across the authority, they do not dominate in any one area.

Figure 20: Largest market segments (whole authority) (And percentage of residents)

Figure 26 maps the dominant market segments in each MSOA across the district. It is

clear that the “Settling down Males” group (Tim) dominates much of the district, although there is an area dominated by “Comfortable Mid Life Males” (Philip) and another by the “Comfortable Retired Couples” group, (Ralph and Phyllis). As a result, activities such as cycling are more popular than in other areas of the country.

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Figure 21: Market Segmentation map


The sports which each market segment group currently take part in, and what they

would be attracted to, are given in Figure 22. This figure illustrates the importance of swimming, keep fit/gym and cycling to many of the residents of South Oxfordshire District. Also of note are athletics (which includes jogging), tennis and golf.

It should be noted that the Market Segmentation tool is a snap-shot of the current

picture, and unfortunately is not available for forecasting. However it is likely that the general picture presented by this map will remain largely valid, although the groups will age in many areas.


Figure 22: Market segmentation and interest in sport

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Tim Settling Down

Male26-45 Married or

single. May have

Professional Cycling Keep fit/gym Swimming Football Athletics Cycling Swimming Keep fit/gym Athletics Golf

Philip Comfortable Mid-Life Male

45-55 Married with children

Full time employment and owner occupier

Cycling Keep fit/gym Swimming Football Golf Swimming Cycling Keep fit/gym Golf Athletics

Ralph & Phyllis

Comfortable Retired Couples

66+ Married/ single

RetiredKeep fit/gym Swimming Golf Bowls Cycling Swimming Keep fit/gym Golf Cycling Tennis

Chloe Fitness Class Friends

18-25 Single Graduate professional Keep fit/gym Swimming Athletics Cycling Equestrian Swimming Keep fit/gym Cycling Athletics Tennis

Alison Stay-at-home mum

36-45 Married with children

Stay-at-home mum Keep fit/gym Swimming Cycling Athletics Equestrian Swimming Keep fit/gym Cycling Athletics Tennis

Elaine Empty Nest Career Ladies

46-55 Married Full time employment and owner occupier

Keep fit/gym Swimming Cycling Athletics Tennis Swimming Keep fit/gym Cycling Badminton Tennis

Ben Competative Male Urbanites

18-25 Single Graduate professional Football Keep fit/gym Cycling Athletics Swimming Swimming Football Cycling Tennis Athletics

Roger & Joy

Early Retirement Couples

56-65 Married Full time employment or retired

Keep fit/gym Swimming Cycling Golf Angling Swimming Keep fit/gym Cycling Golf Athletics

Helena Career focussed females

26-45 Single Full time professional Keep fit/gym Swimming Cycling Athletics Equestrian Swimming Keep fit/gym Cycling Athletics Tennis

Elsie & Arnold

Retirement Home Singles

66+ Widowed RetiredKeep fit/gym Swimming Bowls Golf Cycling Swimming Keep fit/gym Cycling Tennis Bowls

Jackie Middle England Mum

36-45 Married Part time skilled worker or stay-at-home mum

Keep fit/gym Swimming Cycling Athletics Badminton Swimming Keep fit/gym Cycling Athletics Tennis

Frank Twilight Year Gents

66+ Married/ single

RetiredGolf Keep fit/gym Bowls Swimming Cycling Swimming Cycling Golf Keep fit/gym Bowls

Sports do now, decreasing order top 5 Sports would like to do more of, decreasing order top 5 Segment Characteristic Age

Marital status

Work type


SECTION 4: POLICIES AND STRATEGIES OF NEIGHBOROUGING AUTHORITIES

It is important to set South Oxfordshire within the context of the wider regional sub-

area. The relevant information for the adjacent local authorities is drawn out under each of the facility and pitch sections of this report.

SECTION 5: SUMMARY

5.1 This background and context is referenced and used throughout the other parts of

the strategy as it applies to all sports, facilities, and open space. Where relevant further detail is provided within the appropriate section.


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GLOSSARY AGP Artificial grass pitch CIL Community Infrastructure Levy CIPFA Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy DLSA Didcot Leisure Sub Area report 2014 GVA Gross Value Added IDP Infrastructure Development Plan IMD Index of Multiple Deprivation KPI Key Performance Indicator LA Local Authority LSOA Lower Super Output Area MIE Moderate Intensity Equivalent for exercise MUGA Multi use games area MSOA Middle Super Output Area NPPF National Planning Policy Framework NPPG National Planning Practice Guidance ONS Office for National Statistics SHMA Strategic Housing Market Assessment SODC South Oxfordshire District Council SUE Sustainable Urban Extension

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