Page 3750 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 23 October 2013
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I am pleased to move this motion this afternoon regarding the maintenance of sportsgrounds. It is well known that Canberrans have amongst the highest participation rates in sporting and recreation activities in the nation. An important component of that is the provision of high quality sporting and recreation facilities, which encourage everyone to participate in healthy physical activities. I am pleased to report that the most recent survey of sporting and recreational facilities in the ACT has confirmed that we continue to provide facilities which Canberrans who regularly use them rate particularly highly.
The survey I refer to is the quarterly survey undertaken by the independent market research company Market Attitude Research Services, or MARS. I seek leave to table an overview of the findings relating to sportsgrounds in the MARS research.
Leave granted.
MS PORTER: I table the following paper:
Sport and Recreation Services 2013-2014—Overview of key strategic findings and strategic implications—2013-2014 quarterly report, dated September 2013.
This research has been undertaken quarterly by MARS since 2007 and evaluates open space management usage and satisfaction on behalf of the ACT government land managers: the Parks and Conservation Service and Sport and Recreation Services. This research assists in determining community and visitor awareness, usage and satisfaction with public sportsgrounds, urban and non-urban parks, recreation areas, reserves and open spaces.
As part of the survey, those who regularly use the facilities are asked to rate them in regard to a range of criteria. This information is then used by Sport and Recreation Services to improve the overall experience and subsequently further encourage their use. The most recent survey was completed in September 2013, and I am pleased to report to the Assembly that the results were amongst the best that have ever been achieved.
Included in the many highlights of the report were the findings that satisfaction with overall quality and experience provided by public sportsgrounds and neighbourhood ovals was rated at 100 per cent by the respondents. That is 100 per cent. Other major findings of the survey include: ease of access to grounds, 100 per cent; maintenance and cleanliness, 97 per cent; amount of sporting and recreation facilities provided, 97 per cent; absence of litter, 96 per cent; and overall management of public sporting grounds and neighbourhood ovals, 94 per cent.
Other specific areas included in the survey are our enclosed sportsgrounds, and the latest quarterly survey also found satisfaction levels of the users of these facilities to be very positive: 92 per cent of respondents were satisfied with the experience provided at the enclosed sportsgrounds. This is a particularly pleasing result as it is close to the highest ever achieved, having risen from 82 per cent at the start of the research in 2007. The research also shows a 92 per cent satisfaction rate with the
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