Hard Porous Pitch Maintenance

A popular artificial sports surface, especially during the 1950s and to early 1980s, until synthetic surfaces arrived on the scene. It was quite common as a school facility, particularly where a joint use arrangement existed between a school and an adjacent sports centre. Use would typically be reserved for school usage during the day, until about 5pm and then the surface would be available at evenings and weekends for adult and non-school. Hard porous surfaces were an early form of MUGA and were a suitable general-purpose surface between a grass pitch, which may have relatively poor drainage, but where high usage is required, and a synthetic grass pitch.