Doubleview - Innaloo -Scarborough Local Area Plan - City of Stirling

natural environment
Governments, the City of Stirling is trying to innovate in protecting,
retaining and maintaining our natural environment. The City has
a range of Policies and management plans which recommend
other means of encouraging sustainable practices.
Multi-purpose and Functional Public Open Space
As mentioned, the residents appear to be content with the
amount of public open space in the area. A common theme was
that they would rather see facilities improved than increase the
number of parks. The community surveys, identified over 80%
of respondents felt that parks did not adequately provide for
sporting and recreation.
With continued infill developments and society demonstrating
greater participation in sporting and physical activities, it is vital
that the City can still provide adequate space and facilities.
Acquiring land in established suburbs is difficult, so therefore
it is more effective to maximise the potential of existing parks.
Most ovals can be used for several sports codes throughout
the seasons, as well as for other informal activities such as dog
training, walking, personal training, etc. These parks could also
provide areas for playgrounds, conservation and other passive
recreation.
Another way of increasing public open space and increasing
variety is to create ‘greenways’. These link existing ‘green’ areas
such as parks, reserves, the coast, schools, even civic areas.
Investigation could also be made by converting laneways and as
previously mentioned, sumps into open space.
Many of these issues and objectives have been investigated
through the City’s Public Open Space Strategy. This Strategy is
continuously referred to in other relating policies and management
plans to help enable its objectives. The City’s Recreation and
Leisure and Parks and Reserves Business Units are continuously
working on improving the City’s Public Open Space.
City of Stirling
doubleview -innaloo - scarborough local area plan
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