Policy information sourced from the Hillingdon Local Plan: Part 1

CI2: Leisure and Recreation

The Council will, in partnership with other bodies, seek to secure good quality, well maintained leisure and recreation facilities to address identified deficiencies and meet the needs of local communities, particularly deprived groups, by:

  • Safeguarding the existing viable leisure and recreational facilities and supporting proposals for new and improved facilities:
  • Seeking to improve the geographical spread of leisure and recreational facilities across the borough by:
    • Promoting ‘community sport hubs’;
    • Improving and upgrading facilities to both modernise and maximise their capacity to meet current leisure trends and demands including refurbishment of Highgrove Pool, extension of facilities at Minet cycle track and Hillingdon Sports & Leisure Complex;
    • Increased and improved facilities for specialist sports facilities to accommodate year round provision and standard of competition where local need can be identified. Such potential opportunities currently include indoor tennis courts, velodrome facilities and indoor bowls;
    • Encouraging cultural and sporting facilities for schools and other institutions which can be shared with the community through new facilities provided by existing providers (at Brunel University and Uxbridge College) and sports club facilities (such as Eastcote Hockey Club);
    • and Opening up formal pay and play community access to school facilities.
  • Increasing the provision of indoor facilities to address the needs of older people;
  • Ensuring that development proposals will not result in the loss of existing leisure and recreational facilities unless satisfactory alternative provision is made or it can be demonstrated that the asset is no longer needed;
  • Encouraging shared use of private leisure and recreational facilities;
  • Capitalising on opportunities to supply new sporting and associated facilities in the borough to support the legacy of the 2012 Olympics;
  • Seeking developer contributions towards improvements to the quality and quantity of leisure and recreational facilities;
  • and Seeking new and existing developments to promote the need to have inclusive and accessible design, to tackle climate change and to include facilities that promote sustainable transportation.

Implementation of Policy CI2: how we will achieve this

  • Through the criteria contained in Policy CI2.
  • Development of new sport and leisure facilities outlined in the SIP.
  • The promotion of ‘community sport hubs’ across the borough.

Monitoring of Policy CI2: how we will measure success

  • Provision and protection of leisure and recreational facilities will be considered in determining planning applications. Individual allocations of land relating to leisure and recreation will be set out in the Hillingdon Local Plan: Part 2- Site Specific Allocations LDD.
  • Reporting on progress in implementing the ‘Active Hillingdon’ Strategy will provide information which will be included in the Annual Monitoring Report, when available.

For more information please see the Local Plan: Part 1