Playing Fields
Culture Media and Sport
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Hugh Robertson (- Shadow Minister (Sport and the Olympics), Culture, Media and Sport; Faversham & Mid Kent, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many playing fields have been (a) created and (b) lost in each local authority in each year since 1997; in how many cases Sport England was consulted; and what the outcome of that consultation was in each case.
Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Sport), Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Bradford South, Labour)
Sport England's role as a statutory consultant on playing fields only extends to those planning applications for developments affecting existing playing fields. They are not therefore consulted on all planning applications for new playing fields and this data are not held centrally.
Sport England's statistics for the total number of playing field consultations and outcomes since 2001 can be found on their website at: