{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-premises-regulations-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-premises-regulations-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Premises) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-premises-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The team game playing fields provided for any school shall be of a minimum total area determined (subject to sub-paragraph (2)) in accordance with the following Table by reference to the number of pupils at the school who have attained the age of 8 years and that area shall be the area specified opposite the entry in column (1) of the Table within which that number falls—\n(a) in column (2) thereof, in the case of a school with pupils who have not attained the age of 11 years; and\n(b) in column (3) thereof, in the case of any other school.\n(2) Should the number of pupils at the school who have attained the age of 8 years exceed 1,950, the team game playing fields shall be of a minimum total area equal to the aggregate of—\n(a) 70,000 m2, in the case of a school mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a), or 75,000 m2, in the case of any other school; and\n(b) 5,000 m2 for each complete 150 by which the said number of pupils exceeds 1,801.\nTABLE\nMinimum area of team game playing fields for schools\nMinimum total area in m2\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nTotal number of pupils who have attained the age of 8 years (entries to be construed inclusive of both numbers specified)\nSchools with pupils who have not attained the age of 11 years\nOther schools\n100 or fewer\n2,500\n5,000\n101 to 200\n5,000\n10,000\n201 to 300\n10,000\n15,000\n301 to 400\n15,000\n20,000\n401 to 500\n20,000\n25,000\n501 to 600\n25,000\n30,000\n601 to 750\n30,000\n35,000\n751 to 900\n35,000\n40,000\n901 to 1,050\n40,000\n45,000\n1,051 to 1,200\n45,000\n50,000\n1,201 to 1,350\n50,000\n55,000\n1,351 to 1,500\n55,000\n60,000\n1,501 to 1,650\n60,000\n65,000\n1,651 to 1,800\n65,000\n70,000\n1,801 to 1,950\n70,000\n75,000\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph any part of team game playing fields which has an all weather surface, (that is to say a hard porous surface, a synthetic surface or a polymeric surface) may be treated as if it were twice its actual area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:32.106608+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}