What is the Chorley Open Space, Sports and Recreation Strategy Action Plan?
The strategy action plan focuses on sites identified through the site assessments which are proposed to be enhanced, where new provision is to be created or sites where partnership working is advocated. This covers all sites of main pitch sports including football, cricket, rugby union, rugby league and hockey and assess both grass pitches and artificial pitches. In addition, it also includes other outdoor sports facilities including tennis, bowls, golf, cycling and athletics (including formal running clubs) and open spaces including parks, amenity, cemeteries, civic spaces and allotments.
This document includes a short summary of all typologies of open space, sports and playing pitches and focuses on a comprehensive strategy action plan. The strategy action plan includes:
- schemes to be carried forward from the previous Play, Open Space and Playing Pitch Strategy Action plan 2014-2019. These are schemes are either underway or are awaiting the necessary funding required
- schemes identified as high and medium priority by KKP (which may include some projects which are complicated to enable/deliver, for example non-council owned assets)
- schemes which are identified as a Chorley Council Corporate Strategy Projects
- schemes which are identified as neighbourhood priority projects.
KKP identified some low priority actions (many of which refer simply to ‘ongoing maintenance’ ) and these have been excluded from the OSSR Strategy Action Plan for now, to be reviewed as part of the ongoing review of this action plan.