School land: decisions about the disposal of playing field land

Added details of 6 school applications for the disposal of school land approved in 2025 and 1 to the ‘Applications approved after panel recommended refusal’.

Updated to clarify application requirements and what the Department for Education considers are ‘disposals’ of playing fields.

Added details of 3 school applications for the disposal of school land approved in 2025.

Added details of 4 school applications for the disposal of school land approved in 2025.

Added details of 5 school applications for the disposal of school land approved in 2025.

Added details of 22 school applications for the disposal of school land approved in 2024.

Added 7 schools to the list of approved applications for the disposal of school land and changed the format of the information.

Added 22 schools to the list of approved applications for the disposal of school land. Added 1 school to list of applications not approved for disposal.

Amended the wording about the advisory panel’s powers under ‘Other decisions’ to clarify that it does not make decisions, but instead makes recommendation to the Secretary of State. Removed the entry for the Diocese of Lincoln regarding Ludford Primary School (June 2017), as this application was for privately rather than publicly held land.

Added 15 schools to the list of approved applications for the disposal of school land. Also added 1 school to list of applications not approved for disposal.

Added 13 schools to the list of approved applications for the disposal of school land.

Updated to include disposals approved since January 2020.

Updated with 13 disposals approved by the Secretary of State since January 2019.

Updated to include disposals for November 2018.

Updated to include disposals for August 2018.

Updated to include disposals for July 2018

Updated to include disposals for March 2018

Update to decisions for disposal February 2018.

Update on new decisions made in January 2018

Update to decisions on school land

One new update on other deciisions.

Three new updates to the list of decisions about the disposal of school land

Update includes September’s disposal decisions added to the published list

Update to decisions on school land decisions

New decisions on the disposal of school land.

Update of new land decisions

Updated with land decisions for February 2017

Updated to include disposals from the previous month.

Updated to include disposals for November.

Updated to include disposals for September.

Updated to include disposals for August.

Disposal table updated.

Updated attachment to include King Alfred’s, approved in May 2016.

Update to the HTML attachment, Decisions on the disposal of school land.

Section 2 – Other decisions – new entry added (2.7)

New entry to the list of disposal decisions

Updated playing field disposal decisions in section 1.List of approved applications.
Updated text in section 4.Background to decisions.
Updated text in section 5.Olympic legacy.

Updates to decisions table, background to decisions, and Olympic legacy sections.

Decisions table updated.

Decisions table updated.

Disposals table updated.

Decisions table updated.

Updated decisions table.

Decisions table updated.

Disposals table updated.

New information added to disposals table.

Updated table of playing field decisions

Monthly update of decisions table.

Added decisions on disposals from November 2013 to January 2014

First published.