This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We want every community to have access to as wide a range of sports facilities as possible, and we are keen to make sure these facilities are open to all.

However, sports and recreation facilities are delivered by local authorities, and locally elected representatives are best placed to judge the needs of the people they serve. Local authority spending priorities is not a matter in which the Government can intervene, as local authorities will know most about the best way to run their services taking account of the impact on local people.

Local authorities are democratically elected organisations, and as such they are independent from central Government and are responsible for their own finances. This means that spending decisions are for individual councils to make.