Survey purpose and background
The purpose of this survey is to understand how the Whitchurch athletics track may be used in the future and how important it is to the local community to have a cycling centre in South Bristol. For information, the Cycling Centre is under threat of closure with a new site to be built in Lawrence Weston. The track is only allowed by the Council for club running. The Council plans to demolish the track in the future for 125 houses but not for another 10 years.
There are other identified locations for the houses but there is NO space in South Bristol to replace the 8 lane competition track which can be used for many community health and wellbeing activities and not just athletics. The alternative tracks for athletics are at Whitehall and Yate. Bristol will have NO competition track which yielded many past local heroes with Olympic medals such as double Olympian Nick Rose. Retention of the track will enable many more community uses which are denied currently by the Council. Your views are important to understand if there is a desire to keep the track open for all the community and retain the cycling centre (as well as the Lawrence Weston site).
We want to understand the views of the South Bristol community. For information at least 3000 new homes are built or planned for this area plus 2000 in Bedminster. In addition, about 10,000 new homes are planned on the South Bristol boundaries. Currently, Bristol City Council are about to refresh Bristol’s ‘Sport & Active Recreation Facilities Strategy’, which includes a strategic assessment of supply and demand for all built sport facilities in the city (except artificial grass pitches) and identifies gaps in provision, future needs and priority actions.
The Council say they, "want to ensure we consider the needs of all our communities and we are conducting community engagement before we start this process. This is focused on groups who are less likely to be active in the city including women and girls, older adults, Disabled people, Black & Asian people, children and adults living in deprived areas. We want to understand what matters most to people when it comes to accessing different facilities, and the barriers and enablers that may influence them – we’d love to get your insight on this topic. This also includes what’s important to some of you as delivery organisations so you can continue to develop your great work getting people active through an enhanced facility network."
We will be sending the data collected from this survey into this process.
There are other identified locations for the houses but there is NO space in South Bristol to replace the 8 lane competition track which can be used for many community health and wellbeing activities and not just athletics. The alternative tracks for athletics are at Whitehall and Yate. Bristol will have NO competition track which yielded many past local heroes with Olympic medals such as double Olympian Nick Rose. Retention of the track will enable many more community uses which are denied currently by the Council. Your views are important to understand if there is a desire to keep the track open for all the community and retain the cycling centre (as well as the Lawrence Weston site).
We want to understand the views of the South Bristol community. For information at least 3000 new homes are built or planned for this area plus 2000 in Bedminster. In addition, about 10,000 new homes are planned on the South Bristol boundaries. Currently, Bristol City Council are about to refresh Bristol’s ‘Sport & Active Recreation Facilities Strategy’, which includes a strategic assessment of supply and demand for all built sport facilities in the city (except artificial grass pitches) and identifies gaps in provision, future needs and priority actions.
The Council say they, "want to ensure we consider the needs of all our communities and we are conducting community engagement before we start this process. This is focused on groups who are less likely to be active in the city including women and girls, older adults, Disabled people, Black & Asian people, children and adults living in deprived areas. We want to understand what matters most to people when it comes to accessing different facilities, and the barriers and enablers that may influence them – we’d love to get your insight on this topic. This also includes what’s important to some of you as delivery organisations so you can continue to develop your great work getting people active through an enhanced facility network."
We will be sending the data collected from this survey into this process.