Pitch guidelines
- The Green Guide (to safety at Sport’s Grounds, 2008, 5th edition)
- Current National ground grading – Category A (2019) – details of perimeter fence and ground requirements
- Current National ground grading – Category B (2019) – details of perimeter fence and ground requirements for DHFC’s National League South
- Old National ground grading – Category A (2016) – details of perimeter fence and ground requirements
- Old National ground grading – Category B (2017) – details of perimeter fence and ground requirements for DHFC’s National League South
- Old National ground grading – Category F (2016)
- Ground grading and ground improvements
- Fa guide to 3G football turf pitch design principles & layouts
- The Pyramid.info – lots of info about different ground grades, not updated since 2012
- Artifical Surfaces for 3G pitches by Sports England – the guide often referred to in reference to the astro turf lease
- Sports Grounds Safety Authority – Safety Certification
- Football League Ground Capacity and Seating Requirements (National League) – stadium needs to be built to expand to 5000 capacity in the future, 500 of which must be seated
- List of all national league South football stadia in the UK
3G pitch cancer scares and environmental concerns
- Rubber granules in artificial turf bad for the environment (nrc.nl July 2019)
- ‘He couldn’t breathe’: How playing soccer on artificial turf nearly killed a teen (Wvgla July 2019)
- Rubber granulate on artificial grass pitches SAFE OR NOT SAFE FOR CHILDREN? (ntvg.gl July 2019)
- Concerns raised over ‘carcinogenic’ rubber crumb 3G pitch as part of Devon FA ‘Wembley of the West’ plans (Devon Live June 2019)
- EU tackles cancer risk in football pitches (Politico April 2019)
- Major new fears emerge over absence of recycling plan for 3G pitches (The Telegraph Sept 2018)
- ‘CANCER COVER-UP’ Sport and health officials agreed not to go public on cancer concerns linked to artificial 3G pitches (The Sun Aug 2018)
- Few crumbs of comfort as FA pushes on with plans to build more 3G pitches despite health fears (The Telegraph March 2018)
- Health checks on users of crumb rubber pitches is insufficient, study finds (uni of Sterling, Sept 2017)
- Are artificial sports pitches causing cancer? (The Telegraph Feb 2016)
- Why These Goalies Are Worried About Unknown Toxins In Artificial Turf (Huffington Post May 2014)
- Science may get sidelined in artificial turf debate (Science News)