Can schools sell playing fields?
Can schools sell playing fields? Unlike much public land, there are government protections to stop the sale of school playing fields. Headteachers are obliged to send planning applications off to the Department for Education, with the education secretary personally approving each individual case. How many school playing fields have been sold off? But the speech came just hours after newly updated official data shows 236 playing field sales have been signed off under the Conservatives since 2010. The government approved the sell-off of almost as many playing fields last year as the whole of the previous two years, despite the...