Annual Report 2015-2016

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SPACES AND PLACES
Aktive recognises that spaces and places create opportunities
for Aucklanders to participate, and we work to help NSOs
and RSOs plan and advocate for investment in facilities across
our city.
Our ongoing advocacy around the Auckland Council 10-year
budget (Long Term Plan) aims to preserve a major investment
in capital expenditure to meet the future sport and recreation
needs of a growing, diverse, and increasingly dense Auckland.
Our participation in the Funders Forum aligns Auckland Council
knowledge and plans with code-specific work, to obtain
the optimum outcomes.
Aktive is a key partner with
Auckland Council in major
projects such as the Sports Facility
Investment Plan, the sector-wide
Sports Facility Network Plan
and the Community Schools
Partnership project which seeks
to unlock the potential of sharing
facilities between the community
and schools.
We have worked closely in facility planning, either as a separate
exercise or as part of creating an Auckland Community Sport
Plan, with individual codes in Netball, League, Basketball,
Tennis, Hockey and Athletics. Our role is to make sure that
individual code aspirations are evidence-based and fit within the
broader facilities policies and philosophies of Auckland Council
and external funders. We will expand this detailed code
by code work in 2016/17.
With local RSTs across the city, we have been involved
in detailed planning work and advocacy, and submissions
in local areas and on specific site investments. Local board
local initiative spending, sport facility partnerships at
multi-code venues, and good-practice examples of
community-school partnerships have all been facilitated
across the city through specialist interventions by local RST staff.
Major redevelopment or re-purposing exercises such as
at Chamberlain Park, Colin Maiden Park, and Auckland Domain
require co-ordinated advocacy from codes, local RSTs and
Aktive to affect the multiple layers of decision-making that
exist in Auckland.
Aktive will also continue to lead
sector knowledge and advocacy
on the effects of planning rules on
facility development in Auckland,
and their potential influence over
changes to regulations across the
whole of NZ.
Leadership and collectivising the voice of the sector around
the Auckland Unitary Plan came to head early in the 2015/16
year, though the results were not known until more recently.
Linked to Environment Court decisions made public this
year, precedents and case law are being set which will affect
the scale of community benefit achievable and hence the
desirability of investment decisions on any given site.
“Working with Aktive has
enabled us to have an all of
Auckland approach that achieves
economies and benefits for our
sport across the region.
Aktive has helped us gain
access to key stakeholders that
are interested in all of Auckland
solutions that benefit their
communities and our sport.
Working alongside Aktive helps
our plans to be seen as having
an independence and robustness
that ensures they are well
received by key stakeholders.”
– Iain Potter, Basketball NZ, CEO
Aktive Chairs’
Roundtable
series launched
in May 2016.