East Brighton Park tennis court management
We’ve received an application to transfer the management and operation of tennis courts at East Brighton Park over to East Brighton Park Community Tennis CIC (Community Interest Company).
The CIC has shared a proposal outlining its plans to take over the management and operation of the 2 public tennis courts at the park.
This process is known as a Community Asset Transfer (CAT).
Have your say
We’re now seeking your views on the proposals, and what you think about the current tennis facilities at East Brighton Park.
The survey is open until Sunday 25 August and should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.
We’ll make our final decision based on the results of this survey.
Phases
Background information
East Brighton Park Community Tennis has formed a new group, the East Brighton Park Community Tennis CIC (Community Interest Company), with the aim of taking over the management and operation of the two public tennis courts at the park.
This process is known as Community Asset Transfer (CAT).
Working with the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), the CIC developed a formal proposal outlining its management plans, and has submitted an application to the council.
To read the proposal, please see below attachment 'East Brighton Park Community Tennis Proposal'.
You can find out more about East Brighton Park on the LTA's East Brighton Park webpage or on our East Brighton Park webpage.
Community Asset Transfer (CAT)
In 2016/17, we agreed to start the process of transferring sports facilities in parks to sports clubs and user groups in order to ensure the future viability of these facilities.
Self-management of sports facilities has proved to be very successful, with clubs and other organisations generally able to offer better facilities at little or no cost to the council.
In 2021, four other local tennis clubs located in the city’s parks produced successful proposals to take over the management and operation of tennis facilities.
This process is being used nationally by many local authorities and is supported by most sports’ national governing bodies.
CAT enables sports clubs and communities to generate investment to upgrade and maintain facilities and to allow those clubs and communities to determine how these facilities are accessed and managed.
Tennis facilities would continue to be available for the public to use, under a formal leasehold arrangement setting out expected principles including for their safe and equitable operation, in line with national and individual sports’ national governing bodies’ best practice guidelines.