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The £26m Dover District Leisure Centre is set to open its doors on February 2019. Designed by GT3 Architects, the centre will include a competition-standard ... More

Social enterprise Places for People Leisure has been awarded a 12-year management contract for the new Dover District Leisure Centre. The operator sealed the deal ... More

Construction of a £26m leisure centre in Dover, Kent, has been given the go ahead, with work on the 21,000sq m (226,000sq ft) site set ... More

Kidderminster Harriers football club has submitted a proposal to the Wyre Forest district council to build a new stadium, with facilities to benefit the town's ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has begun its search for a new chief executive after Ian Ritchie announced that he will retire this summer. Ritchie, ... More

People in Aylesbury, Preston and Weston-super-Mare will be able to play rugby for £1 on new artificial grass pitches built by the Rugby Football Union ... More

BAM Construction has been chosen as the preferred building contractor to work on the pre-construction phase of the £26m leisure centre in Dover, Kent, following ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is planning to develop an artificial grass pitch in Liverpool on the site of one of the Football Association’s (FA) ... More

Aylesbury, Preston and Weston-super-Mare are the first towns to benefit from floodlit artificial pitches under the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) four-year development plan. To create ... More

The Football Association (FA) is awaiting the green light to build grassroots football hubs in Liverpool and West London after establishing facilities in Sheffield. New ... More

The winner has been announced in a hotly-contested competition to design a new leisure centre and area of public realm for Finsbury, north London. Pollard ... More

Almost 50 people have been made redundant as a result of artificial pitch manufacturer Thornton Sports Group being placed into administration. The group which comprises ... More

Ground has been broken on a US$23.5m (£16.5m, €20.8m) “high end” youth sports centre in Ohio which will include facilities and fields for several different ... More

Worcester Warriors will become the third Premiership Rugby club to lay an artificial pitch at its home ground ahead of the 2016/17 season. The new ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is investigating whether professional clubs are holding players back from playing on artificial turf due to medical or management advice. ... More

The Scottish Football Association (SFA) has queried the timing of survey results published by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) in relation to artificial pitches, and ... More

The use of artificial turf in professional football has come under the spotlight after three-quarters of Scottish league players said they would rather play on ... More

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) will invest £57m (US$86.4m, €78.5m) into the development of 100 artificial pitches over the next four-years as it attempts to ... More

Improvements to clubhouses, a focus on coaching and investment in artificial pitches have been highlighted as ways to improve and maintain adolescent participation in rugby. ... More

Football Association (FA) chief executive Martin Glenn has renewed the FA’s pledge to increase spending on grassroots football – and the number of artificial pitches. ... More

Grassroots hockey, football and rugby are the major beneficiaries of the latest round of Sport England’s Improvement Fund. Twelve projects will share a total of ... More

Sportscotland has invested £3.5m in creating seven new artificial playing pitches. A total of £1.8m has been spent on creating six outdoor pitches across the ... More

A new scheme is looking to raise the standards of community sports pitches in England. The new £1.3m Grounds and Natural Turf Improvement Programme is ... More

The Football Association (FA) is to allow the use of 3G artificial pitches in every round of the FA Cup, starting from next season (2014-15). ... More

The poor state of grass playing pitches is having a negative effect on grassroots football in England. A survey by Sky Sports, completed by 2,500 ... More