Policy information sourced from Royal Greenwich Local Plan Core Strategy

OS(d) Sportsgrounds and Playing Fields

The Royal Borough will resist granting planning permission for any development which would lead to the loss, or would prejudice the use, of a playing field or land last used as a playing field except where:

A)

  • An appraisal of current and future needs for playing fields has demonstrated that there is an excess of playing field provision and the site has no special significance to the interests of sport or for school playing field(s), and
  • The site is surplus to requirements of all other open space functions; or

B)

  • The proposed development affects only land incapable of forming, or not forming part of, a playing pitch, or
  • The proposed development is for an indoor or outdoor sports facility, provision of which would be of sufficient benefit to the development of sport as to outweigh the detriment caused by the loss of land, or
  • An alternative site or facility of at least an equivalent quantity and quality is provided in a suitable location.

For more information please see the Local Plan Core Strategy