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building for sport
both to enable effective delivery of PE
and to allow community sports access.
Road
Site
This, aligned to what would appear to
entrance
be a pathological aversion (amongst
planners and designers) to locating car
School car park
Pitches
parks of any real scale in front of school
Break-
out
buildings, is making it progressively more
Break-out Break-out
space
difficult to make the subsequent operation
spaces spaces
of community sports facilities ‘stack up’.
For us, there is, where possible, a need
Community/visitor
to design areas of the school that will (or car park
Floodlit STP/MUGAs/
should) accommodate substantial levels
tennis/netball
of community access in a way that Community
enables them to be separated from the
MAIN SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Fit-
reception
Library
ness
balance of the school facility. In the
Office
Seminar/
majority of instances, it is not practical
Dance/arts music meeting
space rooms
Sports hall
Changing facilities
indoor/outdoor
the desire for Site Perimeter
‘beautiful buildings’
Capacity to separate/’shut-off’ rest of school
may well be
Schematic ideal school design – from a community sports use perspective
over-riding practical
minimising levels of public incursion into ICT systems to control access and security.
teaching areas and optimising usage And so, whatever your interest or
access factors
(and the net revenue generation involvement in BSF, I urge you to take a
potential) of the spaces being made moment to bear in mind the needs of the
available to the community. wider community and consider if there is
simply to insist that the whole building will KKP’s aspiration is that in ten years something in your remit that can prevent
become a community amenity during out time, well defined, sports development- the potential tragedy of a generation of
of school hours. focused ‘community use’ of school sports new, shiny (but empty) school sports
From the perspective of use for sport, facilities will be the norm rather than the facilities in the heart of communities in
physical activity, cultural uses and exception, backed up by strong which they are most-needed.
community learning, there is a need to programming, smart management, good
make decisions about how specific areas partnership with well-organised user
www.kkp.co.uk
of the school can be made available groups and, for example, effective use of
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