Padel court solutions | Losberger De Boer

Designed by athletes for athletes

Padel tennis has taken the world by storm, growing in popularity from South America all the way to Australia. Here in the Middle East, padel is attracting a wide range of players. Casual players and fitness enthusiasts alike have been flocking to take part in the sport for fitness and fun.

For more information, please visit fortune.

Losberger De Boer offers a range of semi-permanent structures to accommodate existing outdoor padel tennis courts or house new courts in the pipeline, so players can play all year round, protected from the sun, without the need for separate indoor and outdoor facilities.

Brochure Padel

Flexible and quick-to-build

Whether you are a community, a sports club, an association or a private investor, we can create the perfect fully-enclosed indoor padel court or shading solution for outdoor courts, being a partner you can trust from the design to construction or even conversion of existing courts.

For over 50 years, Losberger De Boer has been designing, manufacturing and supporting local authorities and organizations to realize their sports facilities projects. Our experts accompany you at every stage of the process, from making contact to delivery and construction. Your padel court structure can be ready for players within weeks, so you can meet the demand for this increasingly popular sport now and in the future.

Scalable, re-usable, tailor-made solution

Modular by design, Losberger De Boer’s structures can be adapted to your project. We offer a range of padel court roofs, courtyards and enclosed buildings, so whatever you are looking for, we have a solution to match. Choose a standard structure or a tailor-made solution to make your project unique.

In addition to the aluminum or wood frame and Flat-tex or double-curvature canvas roofing membrane, we can help you lay foundations and install padel equipment, lighting and sports floors for a turnkey, ready-to-use facility.

Want more information on How to Choose the Best Location for Building a Padel Court in Indonesia?? Feel free to contact us.

These cookies are necessary for the Savills website to function. Examples of this include: setting your privacy preferences, logging in to your Savills account, or filling in forms. Though these cookies cannot be switched off, you can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but please be aware that this will stop some parts of the Savills website from functioning as intended.

Find out more about strictly necessary cookies here.

Always allowed

Governed here by the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), padel is seen as accessible and a gateway to traditional tennis.

The number of padel tennis courts in the UK has grown from 50 in to 710 by the end of . Active players increased from 6,000 to 129,000 across the same period. The LTA projects there will be in excess of 1,000 courts by .

But can the planning system keep up with the pace of growth? And what are the opportunities and threats to meeting the demand from players and operators within the sector?

Our planning teams have already advised on the delivery of over 60 padel tennis and pickle ball courts across the UK, including the largest facility located in Bristol, which has 14 courts.

Significant opportunities

Access to sport and recreation is expressly supported by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and most local plans. New courts, both private and public, contribute directly to the overarching goal of encouraging healthier lifestyles, and weigh heavily in favour of the grant of planning permission.

Based on our experience, there are significant opportunities for delivering new courts and these can include:

1. The repurposing of existing, vacant buildings – typically former commercial sites given their scale – either on a temporary or permanent basis. Internal padel courts can operate within Class E(d) which provides opportunities for the re-use of existing commercial buildings, without a requirement for a formal change of use.
2. Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land that would not typically be suitable for development given that outdoor sport and recreation (including buildings) are not defined as being ‘inappropriate development’. 
   
   Note that development in these areas must be sensitively designed to protect ‘openness’, albeit Savills has a number of successful examples to support new proposals. 
3. The newly introduced concept of ‘Grey Belt’ within the latest version of the NPPF.
4. The expansion of existing sports clubs and other recreation and leisure facilities or conversion of existing, under-utilised facilities.

WHAT ARE THE THREATS?

The principal planning risks associated with new outdoor (either open or covered) courts are generated by operational noise and lighting.  

There are typically creative design mitigation methods that can minimise the impact of new courts and therefore maximise the prospects of securing planning permission. In most instances, planning permission should be achievable for a minimum of daytime hours (i.e. 07:00 – 23:00). 

The delivery of padel tennis courts within an existing building would not typically generate any operational issues and would be determined on the acceptability of the land use.

Overall, the current national policy and local plan policies provide a positive framework to support the growth in padel tennis courts across the UK. There is a good case for the delivery of courts across a variety of different land and building types given its definition as a sport and recreation use.

For more information, please visit How Does a Club Choose Between a Half Panoramic and 360°Full Panoramic Padel Court?.