Arts, Culture & Sport
Introduction
Arts, culture and sport play a vital part in delivering successful and attractive new communities. Cambridgeshire Horizons worked to deliver a range of projects to provide arts and sports facilities for new communities and to enhance the facilities of existing communities.
Arts, culture and sport contribute to economic prosperity and health and well-being. A strong cultural identity also provides learning opportunities and helps with community development. Master plans for major developments are required to include arts, cultural and sports facilities.
Arts and Culture
An Arts and Culture Strategy was produced in 2006 to identify Cambridgeshire's future needs in terms of arts and cultural facilities. The strategy outlines the possible funding mechanisms to support the provision of arts and cultural facilities in new communities and considers the economic benefits to the region in providing high quality arts and culture facilities. Read the full strategy here.
The new Cambridge Central Library has now opened, offering local people access to not only a wide range of books, music and films, but also the opportunity to view over 1,500 complete films from the British Film Institute in the new Mediatheque.
Sports
High quality sports facilities are an essential part of all communities. The Cambridgeshire Horizons Major Sports Facilities Strategy aimed to create a network of high quality community and specialist sports facilities to enhance the quality of life in new and existing communities. The strategy identifies four key priorities for Cambridgeshire: a community football stadium, an ice rink, a multi-lane rowing facility, and a 50 meter swimming pool. Horizons are working with partners to assess the feasibility of a community stadium for Cambridge, looking at options for a community stadium.
An initial feasibility study looking at options for a community stadium was undertaken in 2008. Read more about the feasibility study here.
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