Open space

Definitions

Outdoor sport includes land with a playing pitch, school and other institutional playing fields (with natural or artificial surfaces) and all types of outdoor sports other than playing fields such as bowling greens, tennis, basketball, formal multi use sports areas (MUSA’s), cycle tracks, athletics tracks, etc.

Children’s equipped playspace includes areas such as playgrounds (eg a play space providing swings, slides, climbing etc), skateboard parks, outdoor basketball hoops/kick walls, teenage shelters, MUSA’s that do not meet the size requirements for the respective sports, etc.

Allotments/community food growing includes spaces as titled and other areas such as urban farms for food growing.

Natural semi-natural includes woodlands, urban forestry, scrub, grasslands (eg downlands, commons and meadows) wetlands, open and running water, wastelands and derelict open land and rock areas (eg cliffs, quarries and pits).

(Public) Amenity greenspace (most commonly, but not exclusively in housing areas) includes informal recreation spaces, greenspaces in and around housing and village greens.

Parks and public gardens includes urban parks, country parks and formal public gardens.

Residential garden includes the open space within the curtilage of a dwelling.

Relevant policies

National policy

Planning Policy Guidance Note (PPG) 17: Planning for Open space, Sport and Recreation [PDF59kb]

Brighton & Hove Local Plan

QD15: Landscape Design [PDF 934kb]

QD17: Protection and integration of nature conservation features [PDF 934kb].

QD19: Greenways, QD20 Urban open space [PDF 934kb]

QD21: Allotments [PDF 934kb]

SR20: Protection of public and private outdoor recreation space [PDF 986kb]

SR18: Seafront recreation, SR22 Major sporting venues [PDF 986kb]

Local Development Framework supporting documents

Open Space, Sport and Recreation Space Study 2008/9 [PDF 3.2mb] (see also ERRATUM [PDF 408k