Overview
We are seeking your views on a set of proposals on the way tennis is accessed across the borough and how they can be run in the future. Our proposals aim to ensure that we prioritise fairness and support the long-term investment and development of our tennis courts.
Background
Barnet has over 200 parks and open spaces, part of what makes Barnet such a great borough to live and visit. There are currently 58 tennis courts located across 28 parks within the London Borough of Barnet that vary in quality and condition. The courts currently operate on a bookableContinue reading
Overview
We are seeking your views on a set of proposals on the way tennis is accessed across the borough and how they can be run in the future. Our proposals aim to ensure that we prioritise fairness and support the long-term investment and development of our tennis courts.
Background
Barnet has over 200 parks and open spaces, part of what makes Barnet such a great borough to live and visit. There are currently 58 tennis courts located across 28 parks within the London Borough of Barnet that vary in quality and condition. The courts currently operate on a bookable, free to use basis with two parks operating on and pay and play basis.
As part of understanding more about current access and provision, the council ran a pilot between September 2020 and September 2021, in four parks (Edgwarebury Park, Hendon Park, Montrose Playing Fields and Victoria Park).
The park locations were identified based on a range of factors such as (but not limited to) demand for tennis, recent investment, an existing charging model in place, free-to-use courts and a range in the quality and condition of tennis courts.
The focus of the pilot was to:
- better understand public participation, usage, and access,
- management arrangements and opportunities to improve park-based facilities
- explore opportunities in which tennis across the borough could be enhanced, protected and developed.
The pilot included the following:
What are we seeking your views on?
We want to ensure that tennis facilities are sustainable in years to come and to consider ways to encourage more people to play tennis more often.
Specifically, this consultation aims to:
- understand the local demand and interest in playing tennis
- explore the options with the tennis community for parks tennis management that could apply, based on ideas and good practice elsewhere
- explore the expansion of the pay and play model applied for tennis court hire
- explore the potential for the future operation and/or management of parks tennis
How to have your say
Please give your views by completing our online questionnaire.
If you would like to request a paper questionnaire or another format please:
- email parks@barnet.gov.uk or telephone 020 8359 7820
- alternatively you can write to us at: Barnet Greenspaces and Leisure, London Borough of Barnet, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London, NW9 4EW.
If you would like someone to help you complete the questionnaire or need more information, please contact us using one of the above methods.
What happens after the consultation closes?
The council will use the consultation findings to inform our final decision. We will publish the results of the consultation, our decision and how we are acting on the results of the consultation on this web page in January 2023.
