Policy information sourced from the Islington Core Strategy

CS 17 Sports and recreation provision

Existing and future need for formal sport and recreation provision will be met by:

A) Safeguarding existing provision and ensuring a range of facilities for different activities.

B) Improving the quality, accessibility and capacity (where possible) of sports facilities so that maximum use of all existing facilities can be made.

C) Increasing access to sports facilities by widening the use of school facilities such as sports halls, swimming pools and sports pitches, through community-use agreements for public use to help meet demand.

D) Maximising opportunities for sport and recreation in community centres through promoting wider community access and larger multi-purpose community facilities.

E) Refurbishing Ironmonger Row Baths and Sobell Centre and redeveloping Finsbury Leisure Centre.

F) Further investigating the demand for, feasibility of, and potential to deliver further provision of sports facilities, with any sites for new facilities identified within the Site Allocations.

G) Using the Olympics to promote opportunities for sport and physical activity as set out in the the Islington 2012 Action Plan.

For more information please see the Core Strategy