Council owned football pitches FOI request

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Jon Parker-Dean

Dear Reading Borough Council,

Please can you help me out with the following FOI request:

How many council owned, public football pitches do you currently operate (latest figures available)

How many council owned, public football pitches were sold, or closed, from the financial year 2017/2018 to the present date?

Yours faithfully,

Jon Parker-Dean

FOI, CRT, Reading Borough Council

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Reference: FOI-533202351
Date of request: 20/07/2023
Title of request: Council owned football pitches

Dear Jon Parker-Dean,

Please accept this e-mail as acknowledgement that your recent Freedom  of
Information request has been received by Reading Borough Council. You
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FOI Team

The FOI Team, Reading Borough Council

Reference: FOI-533202351
Date of request: 20/07/2023
Title of request: Council owned football pitches
Information request:

Dear Reading Borough Council,

 

Please can you help me out with the following FOI request:

 

How many council owned, public football pitches do you currently operate
(latest figures available)

 

How many council owned, public football pitches were sold, or closed, from
the financial year 2017/2018 to the present date?

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Jon Parker-Dean

Dear Jon Parker-Dean,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Thank you for your recent request received by the Council on 20 July 2023.

 

You have requested the following information under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000:

 

 

Your request and our response is as follows:

 

 

How many council owned, public football pitches were sold, or closed, from
the financial year 2017/2018 to the present date?
To our knowledge none were sold. 
How many council owned, public football pitches do you currently operate
(latest figures available)
The Council provides 43 grass pitches including Junior and Adult
provision. In addition 2 artificial turf pitches (ATP) are provided along
with a number of ATP courts
No pitches have been closed where demand has fallen spaces are retained to
reintroduce pitches or potentially facilitate resting/rotation of pitches
to all natural rejuvenation

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