Sports Facility Development Plan (10 years) - Brimbank City Council

Kevin Flint Memorial Reserve (Cairnlea) and Balmoral Park (Derrimut) are the twoexceptions in the southern part of the municipality (Refer to Figure 4 and 5).Developed in recently constructed suburbs, these reserves comprise multipleplaying fields and new, well-designed pavilions.The St Albans local area draws on reserves from adjoining local areas (Green GullyReserve and Kevin Flint Memorial Reserve) to augment what are otherwise sparselydistributed local facilities (Refer to Figures 5 and 6). Many sporting reserves in theSt Albans Local Area are single sport, single club facilities (see Figure 4).Brimbank NorthSporting facilities in the north of the municipality, the districts of Keilor andSydenham (Refer to Figures 2 and 3), are principally aggregated at two largesporting reserves: Keilor Park Recreation Reserve (Keilor Park) and Green GullyReserve (Keilor). These large reserves consist of facilities for a range of sportingcodes and are home to nine and seven sporting clubs respectively. These largereserves provide for a broad catchment. Compared to the smaller, single fieldreserves in the south, these reserves:enable economies of scale to be generated for associated infrastructure (forexample, at the time of writing this strategy new large recycled watering systemswere being developed at each reserve to irrigate numerous fields)can accommodate large clubsprovide flexibility for the expansion and contraction of club membershipsaccommodate a hierarchy of facilities with varying standards tailored to differentlevels of sport (from local community based use to premier facilities)The reserves are of a size that can accommodate indoor facilities, recreational clubsand a range of informal recreational activities (cycling pathways, kick-about spaces,picnic areas and playgrounds) and are, therefore, recreational hubs that provide fora broad sector of the community.Although five smaller sporting reserves also exist in the northern area (includingKeilor Recreation Reserve, Lionheart Reserve and Keilor Lodge Reserve) there is notthe local distribution of sporting reserves that is provided in the south. Mostresidents in the Sydenham local area are not within a reasonable walking distanceof a sporting reserve and depend on private motor vehicles to access sportingfacilities (Refer to Figure 2).SPORTS FACILITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN38