Elected Member Briefing - Sports Hall Allocations

About this Briefing Note

Report by: Stefan Morkis, Team Leader, Communications

EMBN Number: 093-25 

Date: 31 July 2025 

Subject: Sports hall allocations for winter 2025/26

Details

Purpose

This briefing note provides a summary of the offers of space which will be made to clubs / groups following the block booking process for indoor sports halls for the 25/26 Winter season. 

This is only a summary of the offers that will be made and the final allocation is subject to change depending on whether clubs / groups accept their offer. 

Briefing Information

Applications for block bookings were open from 2 July to 25 July 2025, coordinated by Perth and Kinross Council (PKC), Live Active Leisure (LAL), and the Academy of Sport and Wellbeing at UHI Perth.  

The process was widely publicised via social media and direct emails to previous groups that had previously booked spaces and PACES accredited clubs.  

A total of 112 requests were received from 73 clubs, covering the period from w/c 18 August 2025 to 10 August 2026.  

Allocation Details 

• 96% of applications (108 out of 112) will receive an offer that as closely matches their request as possible 
• 100% of offers match the requested day. 
• 97% match the requested hall size (with compensatory time offered in two of three mismatches). 
• 92% match the requested duration. 
• 96% are within one hour of the requested start time  

Groups will be e-mailed their offer of space on Thursday 31 July and have been asked to respond by Sunday 10 August, whether they accept the offer. Further analysis of the success of this process will be available soon afterwards. 

Strategic Context 

The block booking process is part of a broader transformation of leisure assets following the closure of Bell's Sports Centre.  

Live Active Leisure now leads the strategic mapping and booking coordination. Facilities at UHI Perth have been added to increase flexibility in allocating space.  

While there are compromises at the moment the completion of the Jeanfield Swifts all weather football facilities, the planned upgrade of the synthetic football surface at Perth Academy, the reinstatement of the synthetic football surface at Perth High School and the completion of PH2O will significantly improve availability and options going forward and should meet all daytime demand which is minimal (Perth Pickleball).