Schools will no longer be required in law to maintain a specific amount of space on their playing fields for team sports under rules brought in on the eve of the Olympics. Education Secretary ...

A Department for Education and Skills spokesman said: "Since a law was implemented in 1998 to stop the indiscriminate sale of school playing fields, the number of playing field sites sold has reduced ...

More than 200 school playing fields have been sold off in the past nine years, research has found. The Government faced a backlash yesterday as campaigners warned a lack of outdoor space could ...

School playing fields will get greater protection against sale and development under new rules announced by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the National Playing Fields Association ...

Labour is calling for ministers to rethink their plans to scrap some of the current protections for school playing fields in England. New school premises regulations due to come into force this ...

Some people are worried that this will make it easier for schools to sell off their playing fields to make extra money. Over 200 school playing fields have been sold off since 1999. We asked you ...

A controversial fence around school playing fields could soon be taken down after ... “Thousands of kids across the UK use open public land for PE, and Ofsted and the Department for Education ...

One school playing field is being sold off every three weeks under the Coalition, new figures show. Statistics released by the Department for Education on Friday show that 57 playing fields have ...

An Olympic gold medallist has stepped into the row over school playing field sell-offs, saying the move will have a "negative" effect on the nation's children. Speaking after education officials ...

EIGHT acres of playing fields at a Darlington school have been earmarked for housing development. On Tuesday, members of Darlington council's cabinet are expected to approve the sale of 3.1 ...

A south-west London school's playing fields are to be sold off for housing after Wandsworth Council approved plans to sell part of Elliott School's grounds in Putney. It is a move that has angered ...