Page 3482 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 17 September 2019
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Stromlo Forest Park has also been long identified as the potential location for sporting fields to meet community needs in the Molonglo region. Consistent with the Stromlo Forest Park plan, the ACT government has committed funding in the 2018-19 budget to deliver a preliminary design and cost plan for the Stromlo Forest Park district playing fields.
This will be the first multi-unit sportsground facility to be provided in Molonglo. The main objective for the future district playing fields will be to provide both the sporting community and the broader community of Molonglo—particularly the outdoor field sports—with a great space to train, play and compete.
The district playing fields will also service the community in terms of providing quality sportsgrounds that can support a diverse range of health and physical recreation activities. This is in line with current community expectations regarding the provision of suitable sport and recreation facilities.
Requirements for the district playing fields include the delivery of three to four basic sports units with a combination of synthetic grass fields and turf fields; a pavilion, including change rooms, canteen, storage, public toilets and other agreed amenities; an appropriate level of parking and floodlighting.
The provision of large district playing fields, as opposed to small neighbourhood ovals, allows sporting clubs to better allocate their limited volunteer and administrative resources, which ultimately assists in improving the delivery of their respective competitions and programs.
However, it will not be possible for all sporting codes to share a single district playing field facility. Therefore, a broader regional analysis of sportsground allocation and usage in Woden and Weston Creek will be undertaken as part of the proposed design process. The consultation process will consider the individual demands for each of the outdoor field sports. This information will assist in determining which sporting codes will be catered for at the new district fields. The government will shortly engage a consultant to undertake this analysis, which will include consultation with key peak sporting bodies.
Mr Assistant Speaker, I thank Miss Burch for bringing the MPI to the Assembly today to discuss what is clearly a well-loved and celebrated resource in the ACT for the broader Canberra community, and I will continue to work on developing Stromlo Forest Park now and into the future.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (3.37): I cannot let the opportunity to talk about Stromlo Forest Park go by without touching on the thorny subject of hydrotherapy, because, after all, Stromlo Forest Park was put up as an option for hydrotherapy, and it has been passed by.
We need to reflect on and remember that, during the estimates process last year, the then minister for health cut off the conversation about hydrotherapy by stating quite emphatically, without any doubt, that there would be a hydrotherapy pool built at the
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