Facilities
Access to quality padel facilities is essential to growing the sport in Great Britain. Whether it’s at a local club, courts in parks or at a community venue, we’re committed to delivering more courts across the country.
In 2025, we’re establishing a Padel Advisory Group (PAG) made up of individuals and organisations from across the padel industry. A key remit of the group will be to provide guidance to the LTA’s national delivery teams, who will work with local authorities across the country to develop plans for growing the sport in a way that works best for the local area.
Read more below about the different ways we’re supporting facility development, including how you can apply for funding for your venue to introduce padel courts.
There are currently over 800 padel courts across Great Britain with that number set to grow over the coming year.
To find a padel court near you, head to the link below:
Courts are being developed in tennis clubs, schools, universities, parks, leisure centres and community indoor centres, with a growing number of commercial operators investing in padel and padel facilities.
We operate a quick access loan scheme and applications are welcomed for both outdoor and covered padel courts.
Through collaboration between the LTA, Manchester City Council and Manchester Active, Manchester has become the first city in Britain to develop a local padel plan. This will support the development of facilities locally, work with local clubs and schools to get more people, especially young people, aware and interested in the sport, and grow the appetite for padel in the city.
Manchester’s padel plan has taken a demand analysis-led approach to examining potential sites for expansion, ensuring that new padel courts – situated in parks and at leisure centres – will have a geographic spread across Manchester. Analysis led by the LTA has shown that across Manchester and Wythenshawe, there is sustained demand for at least 42 new courts, and by working with the local authority, the sites that will not only prove most suitable for court development, but also provide inclusive padel opportunities for the community, can be identified.
The padel plan in Manchester forms part of a wider facility strategy in the city that includes both padel and tennis, with other aspects such as more floodlighting opportunities on community tennis courts, sustainable park tennis operating models being introduced, and working towards covered tennis courts all in development.
At the heart of Manchester’s local padel plan, and those the LTA believes will follow in the coming years, is a commitment to delivering high-quality padel facilities whilst also collaborating with partners to ensuring development is local authority-wide, sustainable, and revenue maximising.
The strategic planning approach implemented by Manchester has been adopted by a number of local authorities, with local first padel strategies likely to become the norm.