Areas We Cover | Sports and Play Surfacing UK

Last updated October 2026

We take on playground, court, pitch and path projects in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, for schools, councils, clubs, leisure sites, care homes, developers and homeowners. Published prices start at about £40 per m2 for wetpour and about £36 per m2 to resurface a MUGA, and Sport England puts a new fenced, floodlit MUGA at £190,000, all before VAT. Choose your county or city below, or send your site details for a survey and quote.

Why does your area change the price?

Because access, haulage and ground conditions change from site to site, and the national benchmarks leave them out. Sport England’s cost guide states that its figures exclude regional cost variations, difficult access and poor ground, so a quote is always built on a survey of your site. Each area page covers what is different there: which council decides planning, who usually commissions the work, and what tends to drive cost.

What changes between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

Mainly planning, building control and funding. The table shows where to look before you plan a project.

Swipe the table sideways to see every column.

What changes by nation for a surfacing project, 2026
	England	Scotland	Wales	Northern Ireland
Planning	National fees and an 8-week decision period for most applications; see our guide	Its own planning system; ask your council	Its own planning system; ask your council	Its own planning system; ask your council
Building control, for canopies and pavilions	Building Regulations, checked by building control	A building warrant from the council, through the eBuildingStandards portal	Its own building regulations since 2011	Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012, enforced by district councils
Grants in our funding guide	PE and sport premium, Movement Fund and Football Foundation all apply	Not these three; ask sportscotland	Not these three; ask Sport Wales	Not these three; ask Sport Northern Ireland

Planning and funding are covered in full in our guides to planning permission for courts and pitches and playground grants.

Which areas have their own page?

These 39 counties and cities, grouped by nation and region. Each page leads with the work buyers there ask for most, from playground surfacing in the Home Counties to tennis court building in Lincolnshire and Oxfordshire.

England: London

England: South East

England: East of England

England: South West

England: East Midlands

England: West Midlands

MUGAs and playground markings in the West Midlands

England: North West

England: Yorkshire and the North East

Scotland

Wales

Playground markings in Cardiff

Northern Ireland

What if your town is not listed?

Send your enquiry anyway; every enquiry is handled, wherever the site is. The list above covers the counties and cities where buyers search most, and a town inside one of them is covered by its county page.

What can we price for you in any area?

Every surface and project on this site. Start with the surfaces or applications pages, or go straight to a price: sports and playground surfacing costs sets out every published figure with its source. If you already know the court or path you want, the court designer and resin designer give a price band in a couple of minutes.

Sources

Sport England, Facility Cost Guidance Q4 2025, published Feb 2026
Wickham Parish Council, Recreation Committee document pack, 27 Feb 2025
Redlynch Leisure, Wet pour rubber, Sept 2026
gov.uk, Determining a planning application, updated Apr 2026
gov.scot, Building standards, read Oct 2026
legislation.gov.uk, Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) (No. 2) Order 2009, 2009
Department of Finance NI, Building regulations, read Oct 2026

Sports and Play Surfacing Across the UK: Areas We Cover