Aktive Summary Annual Report 2015/16
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<strong>Aktive</strong> <strong>Summary</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2015</strong>/20<strong>16</strong> 29<br />
SPACES AND PLACES<br />
<strong>Aktive</strong> recognises that spaces and places create opportunities<br />
for Aucklanders to participate, and we work to help NSOs<br />
and RSOs plan and advocate for investment in facilities across<br />
our city.<br />
Our ongoing advocacy around the Auckland Council 10-year<br />
budget (Long Term Plan) aims to preserve a major investment<br />
in capital expenditure to meet the future sport and recreation<br />
needs of a growing, diverse, and increasingly dense Auckland.<br />
Our participation in the Funders Forum aligns Auckland Council<br />
knowledge and plans with code-specific work, to obtain<br />
the optimum outcomes.<br />
<strong>Aktive</strong> is a key partner with<br />
Auckland Council in major<br />
projects such as the Sports Facility<br />
Investment Plan, the sector-wide<br />
Sports Facility Network Plan<br />
and the Community Schools<br />
Partnership project which seeks<br />
to unlock the potential of sharing<br />
facilities between the community<br />
and schools.<br />
We have worked closely in facility planning, either as a separate<br />
exercise or as part of creating an Auckland Community Sport<br />
Plan, with individual codes in Netball, League, Basketball,<br />
Tennis, Hockey and Athletics. Our role is to make sure that<br />
individual code aspirations are evidence-based and fit within the<br />
broader facilities policies and philosophies of Auckland Council<br />
and external funders. We will expand this detailed code<br />
by code work in 20<strong>16</strong>/17.<br />
With local RSTs across the city, we have been involved<br />
in detailed planning work and advocacy, and submissions<br />
in local areas and on specific site investments. Local board<br />
local initiative spending, sport facility partnerships at<br />
multi-code venues, and good-practice examples of<br />
community-school partnerships have all been facilitated<br />
across the city through specialist interventions by local RST staff.<br />
Major redevelopment or re-purposing exercises such as<br />
at Chamberlain Park, Colin Maiden Park, and Auckland Domain<br />
require co-ordinated advocacy from codes, local RSTs and<br />
<strong>Aktive</strong> to affect the multiple layers of decision-making that<br />
exist in Auckland.<br />
<strong>Aktive</strong> will also continue to lead<br />
sector knowledge and advocacy<br />
on the effects of planning rules on<br />
facility development in Auckland,<br />
and their potential influence over<br />
changes to regulations across the<br />
whole of NZ.<br />
Leadership and collectivising the voice of the sector around<br />
the Auckland Unitary Plan came to head early in the <strong>2015</strong>/<strong>16</strong><br />
year, though the results were not known until more recently.<br />
Linked to Environment Court decisions made public this<br />
year, precedents and case law are being set which will affect<br />
the scale of community benefit achievable and hence the<br />
desirability of investment decisions on any given site.<br />
“Working with <strong>Aktive</strong> has<br />
enabled us to have an all of<br />
Auckland approach that achieves<br />
economies and benefits for our<br />
sport across the region.<br />
<strong>Aktive</strong> has helped us gain<br />
access to key stakeholders that<br />
are interested in all of Auckland<br />
solutions that benefit their<br />
communities and our sport.<br />
Working alongside <strong>Aktive</strong> helps<br />
our plans to be seen as having<br />
an independence and robustness<br />
that ensures they are well<br />
received by key stakeholders.”<br />
– Iain Potter, Basketball NZ, CEO<br />
<strong>Aktive</strong> Chairs’<br />
Roundtable<br />
series launched<br />
in May 20<strong>16</strong>.