Fewer sports fields sold off

Matthew Beard13 April 2012

Applications to sell off playing fields are lower in London than anywhere else in Britain, official figures reveal.

Permission has been granted for only 36 sites to be sold off in the past year out of a national total of 985.

Campaigners said the figures from Sport England showed tougher legislation was taking effect.

However the Fields in Trust lobby group said the capital's playing fields had suffered from decades of decline.

Fifteen of the sites were to have like-for-like replacements. A further 10 were judged too small to be considered proper playing fields.

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