SPORTS HALLS
To meet participation targets and support athletes, NGBs need access to well specified, correctly-sized facilities
KKP’s David McHendry discusses the benefits of
choosing correctly-sized indoor sports facilities that work well for indoor sports and offer a sound business model for the operator
DEVELOPING THE RIGHT SPORTS HALL
return for the operator? This is the ques- tion that Sport England has been seeking to address via its 2011 publication Devel- oping the Right Sports Hall. Specialists from the national governing
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bodies (NGBs) of netball, basketball, bad- minton, volleyball and cricket have come together to assess whether and how it is possible to specify at the core unit level – a space that enables each of the sports to be played at the requisite level of quality – and to set out the process that agencies should use to assess this.
ow large should a sports hall be in order to offer high-qual- ity sporting opportunity and a decent, sustainable level of
Knight, Kavanagh and Page (KKP) – an
independent specialist consultancy in sports, leisure, culture, regeneration and green spaces – was tasked by Sport Eng- land to prepare practical guidance on the sporting and business benefits of the pro- posed larger hall models. This included direct centre management and business planning expertise, work focused on management, programming and usage flexibility that new specifications may offer, as well as the accompanying fiscal benefits and sustainability.
One size fits all Historically, sports hall size evolved around the practical space required to
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accommodate four badminton courts and in general they have become larger and taller. When the old GB Sports Coun- cil’s Standardised Approach to Sports Halls (SASH) programme was rolled out in the early 1980s, the recommended specification for floor-space was 32m x 17m. This worked for badminton but left other sports somewhat cramped; the touchlines for a netball court were, for example, virtually on the skirting boards and there was little or no run off space for umpires, scorers, coaches and other team members. However, these needs have since been
addressed and so the 33m x 18m sports hall specification has become the norm.
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