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V1 E I T WODEN, ATHLLON, MAWSON (WAM) COMMUNITY, SPORT AND RECREATION (CSR) STUDY P h a s e I a n d 3: Narrative Report

DECEMBER 2012

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Prepared by:

Buckley Vann Town Planning Consultants, Briggs & Mortar Pty Ltd and Strategic Leisure Group

Document Management Author/s: Kylie Rolley, Jessica Binch, Brenton Doyle Reviewer/s: Sharyn Briggs, Martin Lambert, Kylie Rolley, Liza Valks Date: 21.12.12

Revision History

Revision Revision Date Approved By Details of Revision

A 26.09.12 Kylie Rolley Draft for review by Briggs & Mortar

B 27,09.12 Sharyn Briggs Review of draft

C 27.09.12 Kylie Rolley 2na draft for review by Briggs & Mortar and SLG

D 01.10.12 Sharyn Briggs Review of 2nd draft

E 02,10.12 Martin Lambert Final review of SLG sections

F 02.10.12 Kylie Rolley, Brenton Doyle Final review and format for submission

G 19,12.12 Brenton Doyle, Liza Valks Final review and format

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 1

1.1 Introduction to the WAM CSR Study 1

1.2 Study Purpose and Objectives 1

1.3 Purpose and Structure of this Report 2

2 Study Scope 3 2.1 Study Area 3

2.2 -Scope and Definition of CSR Facilities - 5

3 Background Document Review 10 3.1 ACT Strategic Planning Framework 10

3.2 Study Area Plans and Strategies 14

3.3 Centres Hierarchy 18

3.4 CSR Facility Plans and Studies 20

3.5 Transport and Accessibility 35

4 Stakeholder Engagement 38 4.1 Stakeholder Engagement Objectives 38

4.2 Phase One Engagement Activities 38

4.3 Summary of Findings — Community Facilities 43

4.4 Summary of Findings — Sport and Recreation Facilities 54

5 CSR Facilities Audit 64 5.1 Community Facilities 64

5.2 Sport and Recreation 67

6 District Comparison 73 6.1 Community Facilities 73

6.2 Sport and Recreation 78

7 Next Phases 81 References 82

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APPENDICES

Appendix A: Appendix B: Appendix C:

Appendix D.1:

Appendix D.2:

Appendix D.3:

Appendix 0.4:

Appendix D.5:

Appendix E:

Appendix F:

Appendix G.1:

Appendix G.2:

TABLES

Project Plan

CSR Facility Definitions by Agency

Background Documents Review Records

One-on-One Meeting Records

Workshop Consultation Records

Government Directorate Proforma Responses

Sport and Recreation Survey Responses (Schools)

Sport and Recreation Survey Responses (Sport and Recreation Organisations)

Priority Placement Areas (PPA) for Schools 2013

Woden Valley CSR Facility Audit

Community Facility Groupings for District Comparison

District Comparison of CSR Facility Rate of Provision

Table 1: CSR Facility Terminology 6 Table 2: Key Challenges and Priorities of he Canberra Plan 12 Table 3: Relationship of Centres Hierarchy and Catchments 19 Table 4: Planned Infrastructure and Facilities 21 Table 5: Community Facilities Available in Woden Valley and Weston Creek (2004) 26 Table 6: Emerging Issues, Gaps in Provision and Recommendations for Community Facilities in Woden Valley and Weston Creek (2004) 27 Table 7: Active 2020 - Summary of Strategic Initiatives 28 Table 8: Summary of Facility Plans 34 Table 9: Transport Facility and Infrastructure Objectives and Broader Strategies 37 Table 10: Stakeholder Engagement Activities 41 Table 11: Existing and Planned / Proposed Community Facilities 44 Table 12: Current/Emerging and Future Community Needs within the Study Area 52 Table 13: Consultation with Sport and Recreation Providers 54 Table 14: Summary of Draft Audit Findings 64 Table 15: Draft Sport and Recreation Facilities Audit - Parks and Public Spaces 67 Table 16: Draft Sport and Recreation Facilities Audit - Sports Fields 69 Table 17: District Comparison — Community Facilities 75 Table 18: District Comparison — Sport and Recreation Facilities 78

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FIGURES

Figure 1: Primary and Contextual Study Areas 4 Figure 2: Key Planning Documents Hierarchy for the ACT 10 Figure 3: Districts of the ACT 15 Figure 4: Woden Valley District Bus Services 36

ACRONYMS

ACT Australian Capital Territory . ANZIC Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification

CIT Canberra Institute of Technology

CMCD Chief Minister and Cabinet Directorate

COMF1S Community Facility Information System

CSD Community Services Directorate

CSR Community, Sport and Recreation

DSS Desired Standards of Service

ESA Emergency Services Agency

ESDD Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate

ETD Education and Training Directorate

HD Health Directorate

JACSD Justice and Community Safety Directorate

LUP Land Use Policy

OSA Outside Study Area (a facility or infrastructure that is outside the study area but may still impact on the demand for services).

PPA Priority Placement Area

SRS Sport and Recreation Services

TAMSD Territory and Municipal Services Directorate

WAM Woden, Athllon, Mawson (Woden Town Centre, Athllon Drive Corridor and Mawson Group Centre)

WCS Woden Community Services

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1 Introduction

1.1 Introduction to the WAM CSR Study This narrative report has been prepared by Buckley Vann Town Planning Consultants, Briggs & Mortar Pty Ltd and Strategic Leisure Group in fulfilment of a deliverable for The Woden, Athllon, Mawson (Woden Town Centre, Athllon Drive Corridor and Mawson Group Centre) Community Sport and Recreation Study (hereafter termed the `WAM CSR Study'), for the Strategic City Planning and Design Branch of the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate (ESDD), of the ACT Government.

The aim of the WAM CSR Study is provide a background technical report that will inform a review of the Woden Town Centre Master Plan (2004) and preparation of a Master Plan for the Mawson Group Centre and Athllon Drive to occur in 2013 (the 'parent projects'). The Master Plans will inform the development of ACT Government Territory Plan Precinct Codes, guiding land use and providing development controls for these Centres.

1.2 Study Purpose and Objectives The purpose of the WAM CSR Study (reflected in the project brief and the consultant's proposal) is twofold:

• Firstly, to identify, collect and analyse background information on existing, approved and proposed stock o f CSR facilities and associated land supply/use in the study areas and identify issues. This will include stakeholder engagement and examination of area socio-economic characteristics and demands. This information will inform a consolidated parent projects 'Issues Paper' to be prepared by ESDD for the different study areas; and

• Secondly, to provide recommendations and options to enhance and/or resolve the issues identified, and suggested recommendations and priorities for any future work. This information will be used to inform the preparation and development (by ESDD) of the Woden/Mawson/Athllon Drive Master Plan parent projects.

More specifically the objectives of this study (from the project brief) are summarised as follows:

• To provide background data, material and issue identification to inform a consolidated 'Issues Paper' for the Woden/Mawson/Athllon Drive Master Plan parent projects;

• To provide evidence-based recommendations and options to inform the preparation of draft and final Woden Town Centre and Mawson Group Centre Master Plans;

• To enable coordinated planning for a range of CSR facilities and land use by public, community and private CSR providers;

• To better understand the current and future retail, employment and residential growth and changing demographic characteristics of the area and any implications on the demand for CSR facilities in the study areas; and

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• To identify the existing, approved and proposed CSR facilities and associated land use/ supply of ACT Government, community based and private sector providers.

The project team has reviewed the above project objectives and has devised a project plan that has been approved by the ESDD to deliver these outcomes.

The overall project plan is provided in Appendix A.

. 1.3 Purpose and Structure of this Report This report provides a description of the process and outcomes relating to the tasks undertaken for phases 1 and 3 of the project plan (refer to Appendix A). It is intended that this report will provide the ESDD with:

• An update on the tasks undertaken to date and the approach and process used in progressing the tasks;

• A brief description of the analysis undertaken to date and an overview of preliminary key findings and outcomes; and

• A copy of the audit for review by ESDD review.

The report is structured to align with the key tasks and deliverables set out in the project plan as follows:

• Section 2: Background Document Review (refer task 1.3 of project plan);

• Section 3: Stakeholder Engagement (refer task 1.2 and 1.5 of project plan);

• Section 4: CSR Facilities Audit (refer task 1.6 of project plan); and

• Section 5: District Comparison (refer task 3.1 of project plan).

Please note that, as previously agreed with ESDD, the results of the Case Study Analysis (refer task 2.1 of project plan) will be provided in a separate paper on the 17th Oct 2012.

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2 Study Scope

2.1 Study Area

2.1.1 Pr imary S t u d y Area

As per the project brief and consultant proposal, the primary investigation areas for the WAM CSR Study are:

• Woden Valley District;

• Woden Town Centre; and

• Mawson Group Centre (inclusive of the Athllon Drive corridor).

The primary study areas are shown in Figure 1 below.

The Woden Valley District is located approximately 5km south/southwest of the Canberra city centre. The District was the Territory's first satellite city and was largely designed and developed in the 1960s. A key driver for the development of Woden Valley was to localise employment and retail activity in the area and disperse it away from the central area of Canberra.

The Woden Valley District was originally designed as a discrete unit of 12 suburbs but development of the eight (8) suburbs in neighbouring Weston Creek increased the population to

a level where a larger Town Centre with a broader range of facilities could be sustained. It is noted that a number of ACT Government CSR facilities are currently provided to a joint Woden Valley-Weston Creek' District catchment area, such as the community health centre, emergency services, library, swimming pool and secondary college.

The Woden Valley District comprises the established suburbs of Chifley, Curtin, Farrer, Garran, Hughes, Isaacs, Lyons, Mawson, O'Malley, Pearce, Phillip and Torrens. The area is a mixture of commercial and medium density residential activity in the Town Centre and low density residential in surrounding suburbs, with a range of community, sport and recreation facilities.

The Woden Town Centre is located in the suburb of Phillip, Woden Valley, and is largely bounded by Melrose Drive to the west and south and Yamba Drive to the east. It serves as a key employment, commercial, retail, service trades and CSR facility centre for the wider Woden Valley District, southern Canberra areas and some inner Canberra suburbs (such as Deakin and Yarralumla).

The Mawson Group Centre is located in the suburb of Mawson, Woden Valley. It includes the Southlands shopping complex, and is contained by Mawson Drive to the north, Mawson Place/Heard Street to the south, Athllon Drive to the west, and Mountevales Street to the east. Developed in the early 1970's, the Mawson Group Centre serves as a social and community hub for the southern Woden Valley community, offering a range of goods, services and employment. While it requires some updating, the Group Centre is considered very active and

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has minimal vacant space. Being adjacent to Athllon Drive, the Group Centre is highly accessible, which in part lead to the recent identification of the area as a park-and-ride location.

Athllon Drive is a key transport corridor that links Woden Valley to Tuggeranong, and the city centre beyond. An area of land running along Athllon Drive is one of the few remaining large vacant sites in close proximity to the Woden Town Centre. The site is within walking distance to both the Woden Town Centre and Mawson Group Centre, and has been identified for residential development uses, in accordance with the ACT (Spatial) Planning Strategy key objective of a more compact city.

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The contextual investigation areas are:

• Weston Creek District;

• Weston Creek Group Centre;

• Curtin Group Centre; and

• Molonglo Valley District.

The contextual study areas are shown in Figure 1 above.





The Weston Creek District lies to the immediate west of the Woden Creek District, and is comprised of eight (8) suburbs. It is located approximately 13km southwest of the Canberra city centre. Weston Creek is the smallest district in the ACT in terms of population, established as a residential district in the late 1960s as an offshoot to the adjacent Woden Valley.

The Weston Creek Group Centre serves as a key social and economic hub for Weston Creek, offering a range of goods, services and employment. .

Curtin Group Centre is the sociar and community hub for the northern Woden Valley - community, similar to the Mawson Group Centre, offering a range of goods, services and employment.

Molonglo Valley District is located immediately north of Weston Creek, south of the District of Belconnen and west of the Tuggeranong Parkway. The valley is currently being prepared for Greenfield development by the ACT Government over a 30 year timeframe in three (3) stages, with Stage 1 already under construction, Stage 2 currently being planned and Stage 3 yet to be fully investigated.

2.2 Scope and Definition of CSR Facilities Community and sport and recreation facilities can be categorised in various ways and the categorisation will differ depending on the model used in the provision and planning for CSR facilities for the relevant jurisdiction. For the purpose of this study, a CSR classification has been developed specific to the ACT, drawing primarily on the review of background material and available information on existing provision of CSR facilities (largely from ACT government directorate plans / reports and consultation with Directorate representatives).

In the case of community facilities, the terminology used has been simplified from that used in land use data base classifications such as the ESDD maintained Community Facility Information System (COMFIS). Hence the community facility terminology adopted reflects social planning models currently used in the ACT rather than land use groupings.

A level of the urban hierarchy has also been ascribed to each community facility to differentiate the role that it plays across the broader network of facilities and the catchment area it is intended to service. The basis of development of the ACT CSR hierarchy is further discussed in Section 3.3.

The classification for sporting and recreation facilities has been developed with the importance of identifying function and catchment hierarchy and has considered broad groupings that reflect an overall use rather than the ephemeral short term uses occurring when a space is configured for the current demand (for example - sports fields are a single category as they all accommodate outdoor sport and maybe used for different sports over any year so classification as a Rugby field does not truly reflect the supply that facility offers).

The classification developed for this study is grouped into the following headings:





Sport and Recreation

• Sportsgrounds and Playing Fields;

• Parks and Public Spaces;

• Aquatic Facilities;

• Outdoor Courts and Greens;

• Indoor Courts;

• Other Outdoor Facilities;

• Other indoor Facilities. "

Community Facilities

• Health;

• Education;

• Cultural;

• Emergency and Justice;

• General Community Spaces;

• Targeted Facilities:

- Children;

- Youth; and

- Aged Care;

• Cemeteries and crematoria.

The table below (Table 1) provides a more detailed breakdown of the ACT CSR classification showing:

• The level of the facility in the hierarchy (column 1);

• The terminology from attachment two (2) of the project brief (column 2); and

• The corresponding terminology developed for different types of facilities used for this study.

Appendix B provides a definition of each CSR facility type by government directorate or other provider.

Table 1: CSR Facility Terminology velbf,ACT;CSR!Factifttes

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rsporTs-giarnTra-AtrpTavinxFreTdf Regional Stadium Major Stadiums

District District playing field District playing field

Enclosed oval Enclosed oval

Local / Neighbourhood Government school oval Neighbourhood oval

Neighbourhood oval school-community oval

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Level.of ACT CSRIFacilities ,Hierarchy

Facility (terminology from ESOD 'brief'

Suggested terminology for CSR otudy

Proposed school-community oval Community Recreation Irrigated Park

Not-irrigated/used (decommissioned)

Parks and Public Spaces . . .

Sub Regional- Multi- District Town Parks Town Parks

District District Parks District Parks

Local/NeighbourhOod " Informal Use Ovals/ CR1Ps Neighbourhood Parks

Playgrounds Informal Use Ovals

Aquatic Facilities

SRS Currently reviewing hierarchy Major Pools and Swim Centres (at regional and multi- district level)

Program pools (District or less level)

Indoor Courts

Regional Indoor court sports (for example, basketball, volleyball, squash)

Regional Complex

District District Complex

Sub -district School or Institution

Other Indoor Faculties i . , ' 1., ,.

Regional Major Facilities

District District facilities

Outdo° Courts and Greens _., • , Regional Outdoor sports (for example,

tennis) Regional Complex

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District District Facilites Activatecr1P7rc-Sr1aces (not oo,yeteifirigia but relevant to planning for sport and recreation

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District Neighbourhood

Youth spaces/ Skate Parks 1. District 2. Neighbourhood

Active recreation nodes 1. Neighbourhood

Outdoor event spaces 1. District

Community gardens Community gardens 1. Neighbourhood

Play spaces 1. District 2. neighbourhood

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iLevel of ACT CSR*Facilities . "Hierarthy

Facility (terminOlogy from :ESC:1D brief)

Suggested terminology for CSR.study ' _ COMMUNITY FACILITIES -

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District Community centre (for example, community activity centre, youth centre)

Community Hub

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Sub-district Clubs (for example, sporting clubs, hospitality)

Licensed Club

Sub-district Religious facilities (for example, places of worship)

Religious Facility •

Sub-district Meeting halls and spaces Meeting Room

Local Neighbourhood Hall/House

COltural Facilities

Regional Convention and Exhibition Centre

Regional Creative artists, writers, musicians and performers (for example, theatres, performance space, art workshops)

Arts Hub/Arts Precinct

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Creative and Performing Arts Centre

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District Libraries and archives Library

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District Technical and vocational education and training

Institute of Technology (CIT) campus

District Adult, community and other education

Adult/Community Education Centre

District Special school education Special school

District Combined early childhood centre and primary education

Early Childhood School

District Secondary education Secondary College - Government

District Secondary education Secondary College - Non-Government

Sub-district Secondary education High School - Government

Sub-district Secondary education High School - Non-Government

Local Primary education Preschool - Government

Local Primary education Preschool - Non-Government

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Regional Hospital Tertiary Hospital

Regional Hospital General Hospital (acute)

Regional Hospital General Hospital (non-acute)

Sub-regional Enhanced, Community Health Centre

District Community Health Centre

District Specialist medical services Medical Specialist Centre

District General practice medical services GP Super Clinic

Sub-district GP Medical Centre 'f Emergency, Justice'Facilities , ',

, ' Regional Youth Justice Centre

Regional Correctional Centre

Regional Courthouse

District Police services Police Station

District Fire protection and other emergency services

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District Senior Citizen's Centre

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3 Background Document Review

3.1 ACT Strategic Planning Framework

Strategic urban land use planning and the regulation of development in Canberra is overseen by the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate (ESDD), formerly the ACT Planning and Land Authority (ACTPLA). The ESDD administers the primary planning regulatory instrument for Canberra, the Planning and Development Act 2007 (PDA). The Planning and Development Regulation 2008 (PDR) supports the interpretation and application of the PDA. Figure 2 below provides a diagrammatic representation of the key planning documents that have a role in regulating and guiding planning and development in the ACT.

Figure 2: Key Planning Documents Hierarchy for the ACT

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At the federal level, the National Capital Plan identifies the Federal Government's strategic vision, objectives and direction for planning and development in the ACT. This plan informs both The Canberra Plan and the Territory Plan, both of which have been developed by the Territory Government. The Territory Plan is the only planning scheme for the ACT and is the primary instrument regulating development assessment processes.

The strategic planning vision for the ACT is determined by the Canberra Plan 20081. The objectives of the Canberra Plan, relevant to the provision of community facilities include:

1. To ensure all Canberrans have timely access to acute and primary health care and that health care focuses on early intervention and prevention and is grounded in the principles of well-being and safe and respectful patient care;

2. To ensure that all Canberrans enjoy the benefits of living in a community that is safe, socially inclusive and respectful of human rights so that all Canberrans are able to fully participate in community life and that the most vulnerable in our community are respected and supported;

3. To ensure that all Canberrans are able to reap the benefits of a high-quality education supported by a culture of excellence in teaching, that lifelong learning opportunities are available to all, and that the economy benefits from a skilled workforce adaptable to change and able to meet the diverse needs of the community; and

4. To ensure that Canberra—its heart and its town, group and local centres—offers the best in sustainable city living; to ensure that all facilities are of high quality and meet the needs of the community; and to ensure that all Canberrans are able to participate in the diverse cultural and social life.

The Canberra Plan further identifies the key challenges of growth and development in the ACT and responds to these them by articulating goals for social and financial investment and relative priorities of the government in addressing these (see Table 2 below).

1 Despite its name, the Canberra Plan provides strategic planning direction for the whole of the ACT, not just Canberra.




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Table 2: Key Challenges and Priorities of he Canberra Plan

Focus Area Key Challenges Priorities

Health • Shortening waiting times • Implement Access Health strategic investments • Improving satisfaction in health care • Implement Health Workforce Strategy • Increase physical activity rates • Implement mental health and chronic disease strategies

• Introduce Indigenous drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility • New women and children's hospital

. • Health centre in Gungahlin • Expansion of intensive and coronary care units at Calvary Hospital

Education • Increase proportion of students finishing Year 12 • Support school renewal and infrastructure improvement programs • Improve educational outcomes for Indigenous students • Commissioning of new schools .

Cultural • Increase use of public libraries • Improve access to arts for disabled community members • Increase participation in the arts • Develop arts precincts and facilities • Increased investment in public art and festivals • Belconnen Arts Centre

Emergency and • Lower crime rates • Introduce Indigenous drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility Justice

General Community • Revitalize town centres and local shops • Gungahlin Town Centre development . Spaces • Lower costs for service delivery • Releasing land in new developments for shops

• Improve satisfaction with government services • Improve identification and planning of services for future growth areas

Targeted Facilities — • Provide appropriate facilities for older residents • Integration of primary care, early intervention and prevention children, youth, older • Increase and improve early child care services • Focus on early childhood health and vulnerable families residents, people • Integrate early childhood serviceS with disabilities • Implementation of new aged care accommodation strategy (under

development) .

• Provide appropriate facilities for ageing population

Housing • Improve poverty and homelessness rates • Improve housing affordability and the range of housing choices available • Implement Affordable Housing Strategy and Action Plan

Transport and • Improve public transport usage . • Implement Integrated Transport Strategy Accessibility




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The ACT Planning Strategy is a key document that sits below the Canberra Plan in the policy hierarchy for the ACT. The key difference between the two documents is that the strategy identifies more specific challenges facing Canberra, as well as particular actions and recommendations for specific areas. Comparatively, the Canberra Plan provides a more overarching vision and broad priorities for the entire territory.

The ACT Planning Strategy further responds to the vision of the Canberra Plan, outlining specific environmental, social and economic challenges facing Canberra, including:

• Dealing with an ageing population; • Providing affordable housing in a variety of forms; and

• Establishing appropriate levels of service in the right locations.

The ACT Planning Strategy also identifies desired outcomes and strategies to guide the future planning and development of Canberra, setting priorities for investment in social and utility infrastructure. It identifies the integration of transport and land use planning, increasing opportunities for social interaction and support and providing a greater diversity in housing as areas of particular importance for channelling resources and investment. Of particular importance to the Woden Town Centre, the planning strategy includes the following priority recommendations and actions:

1. Revising the Woden Town Centre Master Plans to include transport and community facilities;

2. Preparing a Master Plan for Mawson Group Centre, inclusive of the Athllon Drive corridor,

3. Urban intensification in key areas including exemplar projects with more affordable dwellings and public housing;

4. Preparation of a community facilities strategic plan, addressing greenfield estates and urban intensification areas;

5. Identifying mixed use development opportunities to incorporate community facilities, during masterplanning processes; and

6. Expanding the rapid public transport system to reduce private car dependence and make bus travel more direct across urban areas.

The provisions of the Territory Plan guide land use and development in such a manner that is consistent with the strategic vision for Canberra. Although its primary role is as a tool for development assessment, the Territory Plan also identifies strategic directions relating specifically to the provision of community facilities, housing and transport and access, including:

1. Strategic Directions — Social Sustainability:

- 1.18: Provision will be made for a comprehensive range of readily accessible community, cultural, sporting and recreational facilities, distributed according to varying needs of different localities and population groups. In major centres and developing areas, sites will be safeguarded where necessary for particular community needs;




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- 1.20: Planning policies for community facilities and open space will encourage multiple use and flexible design to allow for changing needs;

- 1.21: Provision of affordable, adaptable and special needs housing will be promoted throughout the city, as well as modification or redevelopment of existing stock to meet emerging social needs;

- 1.23: The needs of people with disabilities will be recognised in all facets of urban planning, particularly including the design and operation of transport and access systems and the assessment of development proposals; and

- 1.24: New areas will be planned with a legible and permeable hierarchy of math; conveniently located commercial and community facilities; a network of open spaces; an off-road system for pedestrians and cyclists; and provision for accessible public transport; and

2. Strategic Directions — Urban Areas:

- 2.1: Each town will offer a diversity of housing types... and convenient, linked access to retail centres, community facilities and open space;

- 2.5: A wide range of housing types will be permitted in identified residential areas close to commercial centres and some major transport routes to increase choice; maximise opportunities for affordable housing; and secure some intensification of development consistent with maintaining residential amenity; and

- 2.6: Higher density development will be encouraged with and near major centres, and in other suitable areas well serviced by public transport.

The Territory Plan also includes provisions for the location and design of community and recreation facilities, in the form of the Community and Recreation Facilities Location Guidelines General Code. This code states that community facilities must protect and enhance social amenity, whilst ensuring access to services, and safety and equity in their distribution. The efficient use of land must also be maximised by guaranteeing accessibility and convenience to users through the clustering of related facilities and encouraging shared uses. This code includes a detailed table identifying all potential community facilities and opportunities for co-location,

as well as relationships to other facilities and necessary separation distances from different land uses.

3.2 Study Area Plans and Strategies Several plans and strategies have been developed to guide the future growth and development of the Woden Valley including Woden Town Centre, Weston Creek and Molonglo Valley areas. Although not included within the Master Plan area for the purposes of this study, proposed development in Weston Creek and Molonglo Valley will impact on the demand for facilities within Woden Valley.

For reference purposes, the districts of the ACT are shown in Figure 3 below.





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3.2.1 Woden Valley District

The development of Woden Valley District began in 1963 and by June, 1968, the population of the district had reached 25,000. The first Master Plan for this area was developed in 1965, with construction officially beginning in 1967 (ACTPLA 2004, 9). The overarching concept of the Master Plan was to develop Woden Town Centre in a cruciform shape. The northern arm was to comprise commercial development, whilst the southern arm and east/west arms were to house retail and recreation and community facilities respectively.

The original Master Plan for Woden clearly divided the town into zones and although the onset of new development and subsequent revisions of the plan has resulted in some changes, the essential structural elements of the town remain the same (ACTPLA 2004, 6). That is, the arterial road network that fringes the town, the ring of car parks and retail activity in the plaza, along with the community and recreation facilities located to the north and campus style commercial precinct adjoining the pedestrian spine, comprise the primary structural outlay of the district.

The 2004 Woden Town Centre Master Plan identified an extensive range of community facilities currently available in Woden, highlighting existing opportunities for the colocation of government, community and private sector facilities, as well as improving accessibility and the range of services available to residents. With the focus on a high population growth scenario, this Master Plan identified that an ageing population would require improved accessibility measures, in the form of both private vehicle car parking and more frequent and convenient public transport options. Pedestrian connections and the refurbishment of existing facilities were also targeted areas, as was the provision of additional meeting spaces for functions and community activities.

The ACT Government is currently reviewing the Woden Town Centre Master Plan (2004). The Master Planning process will identify a renewed vision for the centre to accommodate projected growth and change over the next 30 years, while ensuring the current period of growth protects physical and social features that are recognised as being important.

The review of the Master Plan vision for the Town Centre will also serve to reinforce one of the key strategies identified in the Canberra Spatial Plan (2004) and it's more recent update the draft ACT Planning (Spatial) Strategy of "Strategy 1: Creating a more compact, efficient city by focusing urban intensification in town centres, around group centres and along the major public transport routes ...".

As such, the Master Plan will seek to promote the development of high density housing and employment in and around the Town and Group Centres and along the District's main transport corridors in order to place additional population close to employment (to reduce the amount of travel and car use), make better use of existing infrastructure and widen housing choice.




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3.2.2 Weston Creek District

The Territory is currently preparing a Master Plan for the Weston Creek Group Centre, which includes the Cooleman Court Shopping Centre. The Master Planning process will identify how the urban planning, design and layout of the Group Centre can be updated and reinvigorated over the next 20-30 years.

The Weston Group Centre Preliminary Master Plan 2012 has recently been released for public comment, detailing the challenges facing growth and development in Weston Group Centre. Emerging issues identified within the plan include an ageing population, the development of MOlonglo Valley (and the impact this will have on services and facilities in Weston Group Centre) and managing public and private transport demands.

The Preliminary Master Plan also identifies proposed actions and outcomes to be included in the final Master Plan for the group centre, including:

• The maintenance of community and health services close to the existing retail core; • Improving active transport opportunities; and

• Improving the convenience of public transport services adjacent to other services.

Proposed actions detailed in the Preliminary Master Plan include:

• The development of a new community centre (including the colocation of a health centre and community meeting place);

• Increased pedestrian connectivity throughout the centre;

• Improved parking facilities;

• Supportive housing along major transport routes; and

• A rapid bus service.

These ideas were supported during community engagement undertaken in early July 2012. However, the ideas expressed for the future development of Weston Group Centre are preliminary only and will be subject to future investigation and development.

3.2.3 Molonglo Valley District

Molonglo Valley, located immediately north of Weston Creek, south of the District of Belconnen and west of the Tuggeranong Parkway, is a new district that is currently under development. The valley is being prepared for Greenfield development by the ACT Government over a 30 year timeframe in three (3) stages, with Stage 1 already under construction, Stage 2 currently being planned and Stage 3 yet to be fully investigated. The designation of a centres hierarchy within the district is not yet known.

The Molonglo Valley Stage 2 Planning and Design Framework developed in April 2012 details the strategic context and planning rationale for the future development of Molonglo Valley. This area will accommodate nearly a third of all future Molonglo Valley residents, comprising the principal commercial centre, group centre and local centre for the district. Identified issues for the growth of this area include sufficient land allocations, active transport opportunities,





affordable housing, flexible building design and the integration of a range of facilities with transport and retail land uses (colocation).

As such, a child and family centre, GP super clinic and childcare centre may feature in the design and development of Molonglo Valley (Stage 2). The following facilities may also be provided subject to further investigation:

• A multipurpose community centre (including a co-located arts centre);

• Youth centre; • Library; - • Licensed club;

• Year 11-12 college;

• Early childhood school; and

• CIT integration with retail centre and transport facility.

It is anticipated that over the short to medium term staged development of the Molonglo Valley, its new residents will make use of the CSR facilities in the Woden Town Centre, Weston Creek Group Centre and the broader Woden Valley-Weston Creek combined District area.

3.3 Centres Hierarchy

3.3.1 ACT Retail Hierarchy

The ACT is planned around a polycentric centres hierarchy, comprised of five levels: a city centre / civic, town centres, group centres, local centres and industrial and special centres (Urban Research and Analysis Unit, ESDD 2011, no page number). Retailing within the ACT operates both spatially and functionally within the same settlement hierarchy for which the urban areas have generally been organised.

The city centre is the primary centre for commercial and entertainment facilities, servicing a metropolitan catchment.

Town centres occupy the next level of service provision, offering employment, retailing, community and entertainment facilities and services for the district in which they are located. There are currently four town centres in the ACT; Woden, Belconnen, Tuggeranong and Gungahlin. Both the city and town centres meet needs for higher order goods purchased less frequently than others and for which residents will generally travel further to obtain.

Comparatively, group centres provide opportunities for weekly grocery shopping, as well as business and community services for neighbourhood suburb groups. There are currently 17 group centres in the ACT, of which Mawson Group Centre is one, with a further five planned for the future.

Local centres provide a more frequent level of service, meeting the day-to-day convenience needs of a community at the suburb level. The ACT currently comprises 71 local centres, with a further eight planned.





The ACT centres hierarchy also includes industrial and special centres, which perform a retail function outside of the standard hierarchy. More specifically, industrial centres include activities requiring low rent and extensive space, such as bulky goods retailing. Special centres accommodate land uses that require larger sites, including discount factory outlets and other commercial uses.

3.3.2 Relationship t o Catchments

In line with the planning strategy adopted for the ACT, the ACT centres hierarchy is generally related to- catchment areas of relatively standard size, which are shown in Table 3. The table shows the established ACT centre hierarchy (column 1), the corresponding catchment serviced by the centre (column 2) and the approximate population serviced by the centre. The regional level catchment, which is defined as 'ACT plus one hour', is not specifically served by any one centre.

Table 3: Relationship of Centres Hierarchy and Catchments

ESDDRetail Centre Type I

Corre sponding Catchment T 1 App-roximateCatchment

_ Type Size (population)

Non-centre Regional (ACT plus one hour') 480,000

Non-centre, or no specific centres

Sub-regional Various

Town Centre District 50-80,000

Group Centre Sub-District 20-30,000

Local Centre Suburb/ Neighbourhood 2-5,000

Source: Provided by ESDD

These levels of the hierarchy and associated catchments have been used as the basis for the community facilities hierarchy previously discussed in Section 2.2.

For parks, the adopted hierarchies and catchments align closely with the centres hierarchy as anticipated in Canberra's planning. The main difference being that Town Parks while associated with Town Centres can serve catchments greater than district level (50-100,000) and that there is no "sub-district" level.

For sport and recreation facilities there is general alignment with the town centre's hierarchy with similar catchment sizes anticipated for three levels: Regional; District; and Sub- District. It should be noted that for many constructed facilities suburb or neighbourhood levels are not viable modes of provision and therefore they fall into a "district" or multi-suburb / "sub-district" catchment typically associated with club facilities. The exception to this is the provision of neighbourhood ovals or the proposed "Community Recreation Irrigated Parks" which are planned to serve local (suburb or neighbourhood) catchments.




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3.4 CSR Facility Plans and Studies

3.4.1 Community Facilities

ACT Level

A review of key planning strategies developed by the Territory Government for the purposes of CSR facility provision has been undertaken. The review of the background documents has focussed on: existing and emerging needs and issues; the key objectives; more detailed strategies (including any relating to the study area); and planned infrastructure. A summary of these findings is provided in Table 4.

The key documents reviewed as part of this process are detailed below:

a) ACT Government Infrastructure Plan 2011-2021; b) Canberra Social Plan 2011;

c) ACT Women's Plan 2010-2015; d) ACT Children's Plan 2010-2014; e) The ACT Young People's Plan 2009-2014;

f) ACT Multicultural Strategy 2010-2013;

g) ACT Strategic Plan for Positive Ageing 2010-2014;

h) ACT Mental Health Services Plan 2009-2014;

i) ACT Government - Access Health Services Strategic Framework 2007;

j) Education and Training Directorate (ETD) Operational Plan 2012;

k) Department of Education and Training (DET) Strategic Plan 2010-2013;

I) DET Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Maters Strategic Plan 2010-2013;

m) ACT Emergency Services Agency Station Upgrade and Relocation Strategy 2010;

n) ACT Government Draft Clinical Services Plan 2012-207;

o) Your Health, Our Priority Stages 1 and 2 documentation; and

p) Various community consultation outcome reports pertaining to the above documents.

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Table 4: Planned Infrastructure and Facilities

. Existing Needs and Issues

• Life expectancy and obesity increasing in parallel

• Improving access to health services

• Emergency Department access block

• Providing appropriate care for mental health patients

• Reducing:

o average length of stay for acute rehabilitation care

o waiting times for emergency dental health services

o overnight hospital bed occupancy rates

• Improving breast screening participation rate

• Shortening waiting times

• Service fragmentation

• Changing disease profile (chronic disease, higher life expectancy)

• Emerging models of clinical service delivery

• Improving satisfaction in health care

• Increasing physical activity rates • Ageing population

• Public hospitals running at near capacity (high bed occupancy, extended elective surgery waiting times)

• Need to double treatment spaces in emergency departments, hospital beds, mental health beds, aged care and non acute beds (admissions expected to double by 2022)

• Infrastructure Plan

o People in the ACT enjoy the benefits of good health and wellbeing

o As a community we are generally very healthy, active and avoid risky behaviour

o All Canberrans have timely access to primary and acute health care

• Women's Plan

o Accessible services for women and girls to enhance health and wellbeing throughout their life

o Accessible pathways for women and girls experiencing social exclusion

• Mental Health Services Plan o Mental health needs to be met by a comprehensive

network of services that: • Are complementary and integrated; • Intervene and provide support early and for as

long as it is needed • Address mental health issues within community

setting • Easily accessible within and beyond mental

health sector • Peer support and advocacy services to support

consumers along journey to recovery o Align services to a Four Life Stages Developmental

model

o Further develop care coordination and service collaboration mechanisms

o Extend crisis assessment services

o Extend services for youth, adults and older people

o Extend rehabilitation and ongoing recovery support services

• Your Health — Our Priority Stages 1 and 2 o Priorities: timely access to care, aged care, mental

health, chronic disease management, early childhood and vulnerable families, ATSI health

o Infrastructure must be aligned with agreed future priorities, flexible so as to accommodate future models of care and expansion and affordable to enable local access to top quality care

• Draft Clinical Services Plan 2012-2017 o meet increasing demand for health services o building a sustainable health system o improving health of vulnerable people o more health care delivered in the community o building new facilities

o introducing new technologies

o better coordination of care between facilities o planning services that target priority health needs

Strategies

• Child and family centres — maternity and child health clinics, midwifery clinics

• Investigate provision of disability services in existing playgrounds

• Timely access to care: boosting bed and service capacity at hospitals and increasing access to elective surgery

• Mental health: implementation of ACT Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention Plan and Mental Health Services Plan

• Provide maternal and child health services within centres

• Expand dental health services for Aboriginal and Ton-es Strait Islanders

• Prenatal intake service and weekly clinics

• Development of children and family and youth community services and linkages between them

• Carer support services

• Budget annually for additional beds and ongoing enhancement of chronic disease management, workforce and cardiac services efforts

• Service Development Criteria - facilities: o provide consistency of access to appropriate

services, irrespective of where a person enters the system

o be integrated across settings, with a clearly communicated role delineation for each service at each facility

o be planned and delivered based on need and equity of access to health care

o be provided in community settings away from hospital campus were possible

o actively involve service providers in planning services

o ACT Hospitals continue to provide tertiary referral service for surrounding NSW region

o planning will consider planning directions and service plans in Southern NSW and Murrumbidgee

• Single point of entry for hospital services

• Clarification of the role of health services • More services delivered in ambulatory care

setting and community

• Canberra Hospital ACT Walk-In Centre: nurses and reception staff provide publicly funded advice and treatment for people with minor injuries/illness (this was constructed in 2010)

• 2 year timeframe:

o Women and Children's Hospital — collocation at Canberra Hospital (paediatric unit, maternity services, neonatal intensive care unit, gynaecology, fetal medicine and specialized outpatient services)

o Adult acute mental health inpatient unit (additional to existing Mental Health Assessment Unit established in 2010) —40 beds

o Tuggeranong Community Health Centre — OSA

o Capital Region Cancer Centre at Canberra Hospital o Engineering infrastructure, refurbishment of clinical services

expansion and decanting at Canberra Hospital

• 10 year timeframe:

o Acute clinical buildings for Canberra Hospital o Expand bed capacity at Calvary Hospital - OSA

• Youth inpatient mental health unit commissioned in 2011 and operating 2012 at Canberra Hospital (20 beds)

• Construction of a Mental Health Assessment Unit with the Canberra Hospital Emergency Department (operating 2010)

• Options for a.Mental Health Assessment Service within Emergency Department of Calvary Hospital — OSA

• Acute day hospital (8 adult places and 6 senior places) — undisclosed location

• Mental Health sector organisations to offer 6 step up, step down services - to be provided as an alternative to hospital admission for youth and to aid in the transition from hospital back into the community

• Establish a new secure adult mental health unit (short to medium term care in a secure environment) with 15 beds commissioned and operating by 2012 at Canberra Hospital

• Home care supported accommodation in residential facilities —450 places to be established by 2020

• ICU/HDU/CCU Facility at Calvary Hospital — OSA

• Neurosurgery suite at Canberra Hospital

• Redevelopment of Phillip Community Health Centre

o Community health centre and wellness centre o Polycl inic (expanded clinical, diagnostic, acute and post acute

services): existing site may not be large enough, so investigating Yamba Drive site (include parking, child care centre, elder care facility, conference centre and medi-hotel)

o Communicate with Medicare Locals

• Additional beds (24) at Canberra Hospital

• Skills Development Centre at Canberra Hospital (adjacent ANU Medical School)

• Multi-storey car park at Canberra Hospital

• Medi-hotel and ambulatory care precinct at Canberra Hospital (alternative accommodation for patients and families, include conference centre and child care facilities

• Canberra Hospital Diagnostic and Interventional Precinct, Acute Inpatient Care Precinct (include emergency, ICU/HDU, CCU, medical imaging, operating theatres)

Please note, any reference to a two, five or ten year fimeframe commences in 2011.

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Focus Area Eidating Needs Ind Issues Objectives . ; Strategies ' filanbect,Infrastructure

• Queen Elizabeth II Family Centre (Curtin) continue to provide residential program for families with young children experiencing difficulties in postnatal and early childhood periods

• Canberra Hospital continue to provide tertiary services to Act and SE NSW

• Sexual health clinics at Canberra Hospital

• Existing private facilities to continue providing necessary services: O National Capital Private (medical and surgical, with cardiac

angiography suite and chemotherapy day unit — Garran); O Calvary John James (obstetric, medical, surgical, pathology,

radiology, plastic and reconstructive surgery clinic, preventative medicine and rehabilitation centre, orthopaedic fracture clinic) (Curtin)

o Canberra Eye Hospital (Symonston) — OSA o Canberra Specialist Surgical Centre (Deakin) o Lidia Perin Memorial Hospital (Deakin)

Education • Decommiss ion ing o f schools and • Infrastructure Plan • Flexible use of schools, libraries and civic places • 2 year timeframe: the potential use of these sites/buildings for other uses

o All Canberrans benefit from a quality education

o Lifelong learning opportunities are avai lable to all through the colocation and provision of common facilities, i.e. schools that are community use

o New design school in Coombs o Improve Red Hill School

• Increase proportion of students finishing Year 12

• Educat ion and Training Directorate Operational Plan

o Promoting innovative, inspiring and safe learning ,facilities and incorporate child/family services, creative and performing arts centres and sport

o Refurbishment of Torrens and Hughes Primary Schools o Performing arts theatre at Canberra College

• Improve educational outcomes for environments facilities o Hydrotherapy pool upgrade at Malkara School Indigenous students o Building excellence in disability education

o Closing the learning achievement gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

o Supporting successful transitions for students

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Upgrade lighting and fire safety at all schools (2 year time frame) Installation and upgrade of lifts at multi-storey schools (5 year time frame)

o New facility to support Canberra College Cares Program o Installation of artificial grass at Calwell, Torrens and Weetangera

Primary Schools and Telopea Park School o Master plan for CIT Fyshwick Trade Skills Centre - OSA

• Department of Education and Training Strategic Plan • Specialist language centres at public schools (5 • 5 year timeframe: o To ensure students succeed through quality

teaching that engages and supports them • year time frame) Upgrade school car parks (10 year time frame)

o New school in Kenny, Coombs

o Design school in Molonglo o Meet student's academic, social, emotional and • Establishment of Trade Training Centres at high • 10 year timeframe:

physical needs by ensuring all ACT public schools provide positive and success-oriented learning environments

o Provide learning pathways for students that result in a skilled and educated workforce

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schools and colleges (2 year time frame) Support from community for decommissioned schools to be used for public open space, recreation areas or public facilities •

o Potential expansion of Molonglo schools o Opportunities for C r Learning Campus at Molonglo

Melrose Primary School Site currently part tenanted by the YMCA and other community groups and may become a health and well-being hub

• Increase proportion of young people completing or vocational tional studies

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• 44 schools delivering 15 hours of preschool education • Mt Neighbour Pre-school lobe retained and an aged care facility

constructed on the remaining vacant land

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Increase proportion of adults with post-school qualifications Provide flexible and responsive vocationally-based

• Schools designed, constructed and upgraded to meet 2101 century learning and teaching needs with environmentally sustainable design

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Rivett School is tenanted by child care facilities (to be retained) and to include a community park and aged care centre on vacant land Village Creek school to become a new neighbourhood hall

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Continue improving school facilities to support contemporary teaching and learning Embed information communication technology

• Weston Primary and former health clinic is part tenanted by community services (to be retained) and may become a community services hub and regional, health clinic, as well as a neighbourhood hall

(ICT) effectively in all learning environments • Extensions and improvements at Red Hill Primary School are completed

• Four additional public schools have artificial grass surfaces

• Canberra College performing arts theatre (music, drama and dance)

• Program for Tuggeranong Sustainable Living Trade Training Centre

Cultural • Equitable access to services and facilities and fair treatment for all


o All Canberrans can participate in the city's cultural • Libraries to be used for adult literacy and

language programs • Construction of the Molonglo Arts Centre (10 year time frame) - OSA

• Children with multicultural backgrounds face issues relating to health (particularly mental health), consumer protection, legal awareness, homelessness, education, intergenerational

• and social life

Multicultural Strategy

o To ensure that services and programs are accessible to all Canberrans who do not speak the English language well or at all

o Provide children and young people of multicultural

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Improve library services tailored to changing community needs Funding to strengthen capacity of ACT Ethnic Schools Association, to build the quality of community language schools in the ACT Improve access to childcare services for those

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Focus Area. Existing Needs and Issues

conflict and cultural understanding

Objectives

backgrounds with access to age appropriate

Strategies. Planned infrastructure

studying English at CIT

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Older people of multicultural backgrounds often experience social isolation, difficulty accessing government services and have problems with the cultural appropriateness of these services Women of multicultural backgrounds often experience heightened discrimination and racism, barriers to social connectedness (mental health and wellbeing), domestic violence, intercultural difficulties and limited leadership opportunities

support services

o Improve access to services which support the mental health of children and young people of a multicultural background

o To optimize the positive ageing of older people from multicultural backgrounds by increasing recreational activities and opportunities for participating in community life including the provision of appropriate resources

o Address the health needs of women from multicultural backgrounds

o Provide and promote resources which meet the needs of women from multicultural backgrounds

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Support youth centres to meet the needs of young people with multicultural backgrounds, through the provision of drop in centres Provide places to learn driving skills Provide office and meeting spaces for multicultural community groups, particularly in Theo Notaras Multicultural Centre

• Increase use of public libraries

• Increase participation in the arts

• Increased investment in public art and festivals

Emergency • Lower crime rates • Infrastructure Plan • Police station upgrades (5 year time frame) • Rev iew of future accommodation requirements at the Alexander and Justice • Increasing population growth with o The ACT is a fair and safe place to live • Upgrades and maintenance of police facilities (10 Maconochie Centre (2 year timeframe)

an increasingly urban form (inherently increases risks and

o Canberrans benefit from living in a community that is safe, inclusive and respectful •

year time frame) • Assess need for additional facilities at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (5 year time frame)

hazards) o All can participate in community life • Protection and support for women and children • Major upgrade of Philip Fire Station and Woden Ambulance Station

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Climate change (less stable environment more prone to hazards) Prescribed performance standards, including response times

• ESA Station Upgrade and Relocation Strategy

o Flexibility in facility design

o Development of design guidelines for best practice results and colocation of facilities where appropriate

suffering from violence

• (2015-2017 — Phase 4) Minor upgrade of Woden SES

• Existing fire, ambulance and SES service facility locations do not take into account future needs

• Relocation of one facility affects the coverage performance of other facilities

• Existing sites become constrained by surrounding development (built in with no room for expansion, relationship to road network)

• Ageing population (increase in health related hazards and risks)

General • Small pockets of locational • Infrastructure Plan • Better coordination and planning of infrastructure • Assist existing Woden, Weston Creek and Belconnen Community Community disadvantage o Canberra offers the best in sustainable city living and services Centres to respond to location pressures and changing demands (5 year Spaces and • Preservation of existing facilities o Facilities are of a high-quality and meet community • Investment in community infrastructure that time frame) . Services

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Revitalize town centres and local shops Lower costs for service delivery

needs promotes connection and diverse activities, e.g. Regional Community Centres providing long term tenancies for over 40 community organisations

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Neighbourhood Hall in Molonglo (10 year time frame) Refurbishment and redesign (2012-2014) of existing community centre in Woden to become a Regional Community Centre: it will include the

• Improve satisfaction with government services

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New neighbourhood halls Finalise Community Facilities Asset Management

Woden Community Services association, Lollipop Children's Centre and Woden Senior's Club

Strategy (2 year time frame) • Maintain program of community facility audits (2

year time frame)

• Upgrade accommodation for community service

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Existing:Need.s R i d Issues Objectives

providers (5 year time frame) • Pathways for women experiencing disadvantage,

social exclusion and isolation

',Targeted Facilities ',fox Children • Increase and improve early child

care services

• Increase:

o Life expectancy at birth

o Numeracy and literacy

o Parent health and wellbeing o Child oriented facilities and

activities o Community safety

• Reduce risk of harm to vulnerable children

• Reduce proportion of families with low incomes in housing stress situations

• Improve child physical, social and emotional development

• Children's Plan O Services, programs and environments that support

children's optimal development and enhance parental, family and community capacity

o Opportunities for children to influence decisions about their lives and their community, and to actively participate in their communities

• Investment in early childhood infrastructure • Child and family centres offer publicly funded

services and programs for prevention and early intervention (parent education sessions, programs for vulnerable families)

• Needs assessment for Child and Family Centre in WodenNVeston Creek district (5 year time frame)

• Activities and support in existing regional community facilities (5 year time frame)

• Child care facility extensions (2 year time frame)

• UNICEF Child Friendly Cities Initiative

• Affordable and accessible gender and culturally sensitive services, primarily childcare and other parental support services that accept and support the multiple roles of women

• Child and Family Centres provided through Women's Information and Referral Centre

• Improved drop in services for children (speech and motor skills) — additional hours and locations

• Access to early childhood development programs (foster transition between home to school and care facilities)

• Blue Star Clinic (linking families with drug issues to community supports)

• Release 5 sites for child care centres (including Weston Creek) (2 and 10 year time frame)

• New facilities for CC Cares Program at Canberra College (young mothers program) (5 year time frame)

• Lollipop Children's Centre to be redeveloped as part of Regional Community Centre in Woden

• Child and Family Centre at Tuggeranong - OSA

Youth • Mental health issues • Obesity rates • Risk behavior

• Specific groups prone to vulnerability that need focused support (disabled, diverse sexual orientation, etc.)

• Require more focused and accessible medical and dental services

• Desire a sense of belonging, feeling safer and knowing about local culture

• Awareness of services and facilities and how to access them

• Opportunities to participate in training, education and employment

• Young People's Plan O Guide policy development and service delivery for • young people in the ACT by government and non-government

agencies

o Young people are encouraged to contribute and participate in family, community and social life

o Young people are provided with equitable access to information and services to meet their needs and achieve their potential

o Proactively support vulnerable young people

o Ensure that policies and services for young people are evidence based, regularly evaluated and responsive to emerging needs and trends

o Provide information and access to support services (assist young people to access them)

o Support youth to foster relationships with family

O Increased community participation rates

o Assist participation in education, training and employment

o Promote youth rights and access to information and services

o Assist with life transitions (access to support and information)

• Increased number of young people utilizing services

• Improved rates of early identification of vulnerable young people

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, — Objectives ----- - -

Strategies • ' 2 ,Plappec-Hhfcastructure

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_-----......-- Improved health outcomes Increased proportion attaining year 12 education Increase information available to youth about rights

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Older Residents

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Ageing population Improved access and connection to services and facilities Increase range of services and facilities available to older residents

• Strategic Plan for Positive Ageing

o People in the ACT maintain their health and wellbeing across their lifespan to allow them to age positively and to actively participate in their

older t they oer community as ey ge 0 Seniors use appropriate and accessible support

services to assist them to maintain active and relatively independent lives

o People plan for their retirement and, once retired, ty continue to actively participate in our community

through paid and unpaid work, and through educational and recreational activities

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Public housing for elderly residents (5 year time frame) Broader range of accommodation types and price points for elderly residents, as well as accommodation supports (5 year time frame) Support for senior clubs under pressure (5 year time frame) Explore additional public housing stock options and support broader range of price points (10 year time frame) Access to acute and sub-acute beds Home and Community Care Services Outreach healthcare to nursing homes Land sites for future residential aged care facilities Improve access to health care and encourage healthier lifestyles, with senior citizens actively participating in socially inclusive events

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Woden Senior's Club to be redeveloped as part of Regional Community Centre in Woden Permanent seniors club at Tuggeranong - OSA

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Study Area Level

A community facility needs assessment was undertaken in 2004 for the areas of Woden Valley, Weston Creek and Tuggeranong. At the time the study was undertaken, Woden Valley had 20 vacant sites designated under the Community Facility Land Use Policy (LUP) of the Territory Plan (comprising 12.9 hectares of land). Essentially, this policy identifies and allocates sites that are available and suitable for meeting community needs, including the establishment of facilities and services in accessible locations. The study also showed that Weston Creek had 22 unleased, vacant sites, already identified as Community Facility LUP areas, comprising 11.06 hectares. " " -

An important issue raised in this previous assessment was the development pressures placed on existing community facility sites not designated within a Community Facility LUP. The study identified that there were no provisions in place to prevent these sites from changing LUPs and therefore changing the uses allowable on the site.

At the time of the study, the ACT Government was leasing numerous properties within the study area, including schools, depots, health centres and nursing homes to community organisations. The total gross floor area being leased in 2004 was approximately 30,000m2, with 90 applications for additional space having been placed on a waiting list. The table below (Table 5) identifies the number of key community facilities located in Woden Valley and Weston Creek in 2004.

Table 5: Community Facilities Available in Woden Valley and Weston Creek (2004)

Community Facility , Number of Facilities

Woden Valley; Weston;Cteek

Pre-school and Primary School 39 23

Secondary School 2

Secondary College 2 0

Tertiary Education 1 2

Childcare 18

Community Group Accommodation 11 12

Centre/Hall 11 4

Library 1

Health Centre 1 0

Residential Aged Care 20 12

The following table (Table 6) summarises the emerging issues, gaps in facility and service provision and recommendations to meet community needs as identified in the 2004 study.

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Table 6: Emerging Issues, Gaps in Provision and Recommendations for Community Facilities in Woden Valley and Weston Creek (2004)

tEmerging , Issues Gaps in S_ervice andTacility Provision °

' Recommendations

• Facilities lack flexibility to adapt to changing demographics and needs (upgrades and redevelopment required)

• Access issues for older facilities

• Reducing household size and increasing number of households (range improvement required)

• Meeting the needs of a dual population — ageing population and increase in those under 24 years of age

• Lack of activities and services for diverse needs of young people and families

• Affordability of facilities and public indemnity fees are a significant barrier to community sector in undertaking the provision of services and facilities

• Weston Creek Community Centre — acCessibility issues (elderly and disabled)

• Woden Community Centre — outreach programs held elsewhere because of financial pressures from high rental of premises, access issues and general upgrades required

• Pathways and linkages require improvements to encourage use

• Housing for ageing population

• Low cost meeting spaces, including halls and community centres

• Office space for community groups

• Recreation facilities • Health facilitiee, particularly

referral centres for young people

• Child care facilities and placements

• VVoden Valley:

o Library lacks capacity for meeting rooms (currently undergoing improvements)

o Community feel as though there aren't sufficient entertainment facilities located within 3-5 kilometres of Woden

o Lack of short term and disabled parking

o Access and mobility issues in design of public realm

o Restricted hours for facilities near public transport limits usability

o Perceived need for a hall

o Lack of arts/cultural facilities

• Weston Creek:

o Approximately one third of community facilities located in other LUP areas

o 12 residential care accommodation facilities (community feel this is not sufficient)

o Youth Drop-In Centre is not sufficient to accommodate the needs of different groups of young people

o Weston Community Hub offers meeting rooms only for current tenants

o Hall is available for public hire (high cost of security)

• Surplus schools currently being used by community organisations — this should continue

• Periodic audit/assessment required for capacity, gap and adequacy identification

• Land use policy framework development to avoid depletion of Community Facility Land, including a precautionary principles for proposed LUP changes

• Co-location of compatible facilities

• Advertisement of facilities • Redesign of facilities to

improve safety and access • Woden Town Centre

Master Plan — promote better access and safety

• Use of residential LUP areas to provide supportive housing for aged care accommodation, affordable housing strategies and various levels of care required

• Consider role of potential arts facility in Woden

• Mix of formal and informal public and community based facilities for young people

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3.4.2 Sport and Recreation

A number of planning documents have been developed to provide guidance at a range of levels for the provision of sport and recreation facilities across the Australian Capital Territory, including the Woden Valley.

Active 2020

Active 2020: A Strategic Plan for Sport and Active Recreation in the ACT & Region is a long term strategic plan for sport and recreation which envisions enrichment of the health and wellbeing of the community through sport and recreation. A series of fundamental priorities are provided to underpin a framework for sport and recreation in the ACT and Region:

1. Maximise community engagement (participation) in sport and active recreation; 2. Greater acknowledgement and promotion of the health, education and social benefits of

sport and active recreation; 3. Increase capacity and capability of sport and active recreation to provide quality

opportunities in the ACT; 4. Maximise opportunities for outstanding individual successes; 5. Maximise opportunities for sustainable outstanding team performances; 6. Create Canberra's image as the "National Sporting Capital"; 7. Maximise supporting infrastructure and resources.

Active 2020 outlines three main goals:

• To increase participation in competitive, non-competitive and social sport and active recreation activities at all levels;

• To provide opportunities for achieving excellence in sporting performance;

• To ensure access to quality and sustainable infrastructure for the delivery of these activities.

A series of strategic initiatives are provided to achieve these goals. Table 7 contains those initiatives of particular note to planning for sport and recreation in the Woden Valley.

Table 7: Active 2020 - Summary of Strategic Initiatives

Strategic Priority iObjective 'StrategicOtitiativ.e -

1: Maximise community engagement

Maximise community engagement (participation in sport and active recreation.

1.3 Maximise availability for facilities and inclusive

programs for people to get physically active.

1.5 Ensure programs support population groups including disability, youth, indigenous, women, ageing and cultural groups.

1.7 Improve access to sport and recreation programs and facilities for spectators, supporters and people with disabilities.



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2: Promote the benefits

Greater promotion of the health, education and social benefits of sport and active recreation.

, 2.5 Promote workplace sporting and active recreation activities to develop health and wellbeing/ physical activity in the workplace.

5: Sustainable

team performances

Maximise opportunities for sustainable outstanding team performances.

5.7 Leverage the investment in infrastructure in and by major national league teams for use by local organisations.

6: Promote a national spoiling capital .

. . Create Canberra's image as the "National Sporting Capital".

6.1 Develop and promote the Canberra Sport and Recreation Brand and raise the profile of the sport and active recreation industry in the ACT and region.

6.4 Enhance established ACT sporting precincts including Lyneharn, Bruce, Stromlo and Manuka.

7: Maximise supporting infrastructure

Provide sport and recreation facilities and supporting infrastructure that accommodate the demands of participants needs.

7.4 Promote greater creation and use of multi sport and recreation community facilities (both indoor and outdoor) - sharing resources, management and accessibility.

7.6 Promote multi use of school facilities and allow access for clubs.

7.9 Ensure better integration and coordination of non-government provided sport and recreation assets and

infrastructure with government provided assets.

Design Standards

The ACT Government has developed a set of Design Standards for Urban Infrastructure, with two areas providing guidance for sport and recreation provision - '14 Urban Open Space' and DS24 Sportsground Design'.

The objectives for urban open space include:

• Integration of buildings and engineering infrastructure with the natural landscape to create a unified and visually appealing design;

• Creation of aesthetically pleasing landscape environments, increased community enjoyment of everyday life and a greater sense of meaningful connection between people and the environment;

• Development of desirable community living environments through microclimate modification, air quality improvement and noise attenuation;

• Fulfilment of the recreational and social needs of the wider and evolving community that reflect the values of the surrounding regional community;

• Minimisation of energy consumption and carbon dioxide production;

• Contribution to cost efficient urban stormwater systems and improved stormwater quality through the protection of stream flow and environments;




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• Maximisation of ecological benefits through acknowledging wildlife habitat, soil conservation and enhanced biodiversity;

• Incorporation of heritage values through the protection of landscapes with recognised special significance;

• Contribution to the economic vitality of urban Canberra and its environs and its attraction of ecologically sound economic development, particularly tourism;

• Contribution to a stronger sense of community commitment to improvement.

The provision standards outlined for urban open space across the ACT is as follows:

Town Parks:

• 1/50,000- 100,000 residents; • High landscape quality required; • Minimum size is 1 Ha; • Supply at 0.05 Ha/ 1000.

District Parks:

• 1 per 25,000- 50,000 residents; • 4-10 Ha in size; • Supply at 0.45 Ha/ 1000; • Extensive informal facilities and range of activity.

Neighbourhood Parks:

• Generally provided within 400m of houses; • 0.25- 2 Ha size; • Should reflect local character; • Are primarily for informal recreation and play; • "Local" neighbourhood parks of around 0.25 Ha may be provided within 300 m- offering a

site for safe play for children with a minimum catchment of 150 dwellings; • "Central" neighbourhood parks of 0.5-2 ha may be provided adjacent to or around

Neighbourhood sports fields or informal ovals. Provided within 500 m of dwellings with a minimum catchment of 250 dwellings.

Pedestrian Parks:

• Provided as open space corridors for pathways and to connect other open space elements;

• May contain playgrounds and seats.

Playgrounds:

• A provision rate of 1 playground per 1000 residents is recommended.

Informal Use Ovals:

• Provided as flat or gently sloping ground for active recreation adjacent to schools and shopping centres.

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Conservation areas, heritage areas and natural open spaces:

• Provided in a more opportunistic way where remnant forest or vegetation exists or where there are special features such as water bodies or heritage items;

• Detail is provided on habitat assessment and provision of wildlife corridors.

The core objective for sportsground design is to provide sports fields which deliver "acceptable levels of access, safety amenity and convenience for all users". The following performance criteria for sports fields seek to achieve this:

• Align with ACTPLA planning hierarchy; - - • Provide north/south orientation; • Provide appropriately sized sports fields; • Provide buffer distances to adjacent development; • Provide an adequate level of safety relative to risk assessment; • Allow for runoff and rainfall events within acceptable time limits; • Provide acceptable and durable grass cover; • Provide acceptable surface hardness with the ability to be decompacted; • Comply with WSUD guidelines; • Provide field lighting in accordance with Australian Design Standard; • Provide irrigation to maintain appropriate playing conditions; • Provide ancillary facilities appropriate to the standard of playing field; • Provide car parking appropriate to the demand generation; • Provide convenient and safe access for vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians and disabled

persons; • Provide appropriate access for emergency and service vehicles; • Provide for shade, shelter and amenity landscaping that is appropriate to the use areas;

and • Provide access for maintenance vehicles and legitimate users, whilst preventing access to

unauthorised people who may cause vandalism.

The provision standards outlined for sportsground design across the ACT are as follows:

Neighbourhood Oval:

• Generally located adjacent to local school and shopping centre; • Usually I basic sport unit in size (this means 2 rectangular fields with an oval field

overlaid); • Toilet block and lights suitable for training; • Note: a recent review (see Forward Strategy— Future Provision o f ACT Government

Sportsgrounds in Gun gahlin and Molonglo) has recommended that neighbourhood ovals

no longer be provided and that the focus should be on larger district fields and shared use school fields.

Community Recreation Irrigated Park (CRIP):

• Provided where there is no district playing field, District Park or School Oval; • Generally 0.75-1Ha; • Provide irrigated low maintenance space to support informal physical activity and

recreation;



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• Includes toilets, BBQ, shelter, play or active recreation (e.g. 1/2 court) structures; • The Forward Strategy— Future Provision of ACT Government Sportsgrounds in Gungahlin

and Molonglo has recommended that CRIPs be increased in size to around 1.5 Ha to offset the shift in strategy for provision of Neighbourhood Ovals.

District Playing Fields;

• Large sporting precincts serving several suburbs and offering a number of fields with at least 1 pavilion;

• Often associated with a high school; • -Minimum size of 8 Ha; . . • The Forward Strategy— Future Provision of ACT Government Sportsgrounds in Gungahlin

and Molonglo has recommended that the minimum size should be increased to 10 Ha with a preference for -15 Ha;

• Toilets, change and game lighting are provided.

The Forward Strategy: Future Provision of ACT Government Sportsgrounds in Gun gahlin and Molonglo (July 2011) recommends a new approach to the provision of sporting fields. Although not included in the parameters of this study's master plan area, plans for Gungahlin and Molonglo are important to consider for the future provision of sport and recreation for Woden Valley.

This strategy states that the current supply of sportsgrounds across ACT is 427 Ha with 260 Ha of this supply irrigated and maintained to a level that meets formal requirements of sport. This equates to approximately 1.2 Ha / 1000 for overall supply and about 0.72 ha/ 1000 for supply of fields meeting minimum requirements for formal sport use (based on 2011 population of 363,150).

The strategy highlights that many neighbourhood ovals have become "stranded assets" in that they do not provide sufficient space and field numbers to support formal sport and with a lack of irrigation or maintenance are not suitable for use. The provision of isolated single fields is not seen as a successful strategy.

The strategy recommends that a new sports ground provision model be adopted which focuses on:

• Providing District Playing Fields of 15 ha size which allows 6 basic sport units (1 unit = 2x rectangular and 1 x oval overlaid);

• Neighbourhood ovals be replaced with school ovals available for school and community use (area between 1- 1.5 Ha);

• Where a school oval or district playing fields or district park are not provided a Community Recreation Irrigated Park (CRIP) of a minimum 1.5 Ha should be provided;

• Enclosed ovals of around 4 Ha to provide competition venues- located so as to provide sufficient parking around the oval on weekends and evenings.






Other relevant recommendations contained within the strategy include:

• Casey and Franklin Neighbourhood ovals be converted to CRIPs;

• ESDD update the relevant planning codes and guidelines to reflect the new approach;

• That the planned district fields in Taylor be expanded to 15 Ha;

• That school ovals of 1- 1.5 Ha be provided- subject to negotiation with ETD;

• That co-location of schools and district playing fields be encouraged provided schools

are provided with enough space to accommodate informal play and recreation.

Aquatic Facilities

The planning, development and management of aquatic facilities in the ACT is guided by the draft Aquatic and Related Facilities: ACT Strategic Plan document. As an incomplete draft document, the recommendations are not confirmed and should be treated as such.

The supply of aquatic facilities in the ACT is comprised of 5 learn to swim centres, 5 multi-purpose leisure centres, 3 standard swimming pools and 1 water play pool. Only four of these

pools are owned by the ACT government, being Canberra Olympic Pool, Dickson Pool, Manuka Pool, and Tuggeranong Lakeside Leisure Centre.

The study provides a number of conclusions from an analysis of this supply:

• The Canberra Olympic Pool no longer meets the wider needs of the community in its current configuration;

• No aquatic facility in the ACT is capable of hosting national and international swim meets due to seating, marshalling, access and other limitations;

• There is a shortfall of all year aquatic facilities for the social, leisure and recreation markets;

• There is a lack of facilities catering for rehabilitation and older adult health markets;

• There are adequate venues currently to cater for the learn-to-swim markets. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that most, if not all, swim schools are at or near capacity and will continue to grow strongly, and as such demand for facilities will expand;

• The provision for learn to swim (and in the wider leisure provision of health clubs)

venues has developed on a commercial basis where entrepreneurs have seen the opportunities, and There is a continuing need for more comprehensive and integrated

program of provision focused on meeting wider community needs (such as has been pursued with the current Gungahlin and Canberra Olympic Pool studies), so that a more effective, equitable and balanced mix of provision is achieved.

A draft hierarchy is proposed for aquatic facilities, however as a draft document, this hierarchy has not been confirmed:

• Multi-suburb facilities catering to catchments of 25-30,000 and up to 50,000 (25m heated pool + program water and fitness space);

• District/ Sub ACT facilities with a catchment of 80-100,000 or 50,000 (25 and or 50 m heated + outdoor lap pool 25 or 50m+ water play+ fitness and specialty etc.);





• ACT Wide with a 300,000-500,000 people catchment (major facility with 2 50 m pools, diving, competition ready etc.);

• National-elite sport facility.

Planning for specific facilities

Detailed planning for individual facilities has taken place for the Molonglo Aquatic Sports and Recreation Facility and Eddison Park. A summary of these studies is provided below in Table 8.

Table 8: Summary of Facility Plans

Study ' key findings

Molonglo Aquatic This facility will primarily service the catchments of Weston and Molonglo. Sports and Molonglo Valley will have a population of 59,000. As Weston has no Recreation aquatic centre and the combined population of Weston and Molonglo will Facility Feasibility be around 81,000 it is recommended a district facility be developed at Study Phase 1 Molonglo to service this catchment and that a multi-suburb facility remain/ Report be provided to service the Woden catchment of 32,000

Potential for an Ice Rink was discussed but it was not viewed as viable due to lack of colocation with a major retail centre and the market competition from the existing rink. The need for upgrading or replacement of the Phillip rink was highlighted.

The preliminary facility mix recommended includes:

• Gym and fitness space of around 1000m2;

• Medical/ allied consulting rooms; • Child care; • Community spaces for meetings;

• Theatrette for around 100-150 people;

• Restaurant/ café and retail space; • 3 indoor courts with space for 3 more in the future;

• Indoor running track (300-400 m);

• 50m pool;

• 25 m pool;

• Play pool;

• "Standing wave" pool.

Eddison Park This Master Plan was developed to guide the future develop of Eddison Master Plan Park, located in Phillip. Eddison Park is a District Park servicing the

Woden catchment. Many of the recommendations from the plan have been implemented and have reinforced the importance of the park to the town centre and the surrounding community.

Key recommendations from the plan included:

• Additional BBQ and picnic facilities;





• Expansion of the play facilities and diversifying range of ages serviced;

• Establishing a fitness trail;

• Developing a skate plaza and youth space; • Providing space for community events and an outdoor stage; • Place making features such as public art

3.5 Transport and Accessibility The ACT transport network is comprised of a system of ring road and arterial options available to motorcycles, cars and freight vehicles. Corridors such as Northbourne Avenue connect centres and facilitate direct and rapid bus travel along central spines. This is largely through the red rapid, blue rapid and in the city centre, parliamentary zone frequent network. The blue rapid bus service travels through Woden regularly. Figure 4 below identifies the major bus routes traversing Woden Valley District and parts of Weston Creek District during the week. Please note, the Xpresso Peak Hour services also service the Woden area.





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Private vehicle use in Canberra is causing significant environmental and social issues, including congestion, emissions, air and noise pollution and an increase in sedentary lifestyle diseases. According to the Transport Plan 2012-2031, the ACT has the second lowest public transport

use rates of any state/territory in the country, with approximately 81% of individuals living in Canberra travelling by private vehicle to work. This is significantly higher than the Australian

average of 69.7%. This is particularly surprising, as 40% of residents travel less than 10 kilometres to work each day. Comparatively, the ACT also has the highest level of cycling and second highest rate of walking to work. This is largely due to easy access for pedestrians and cyclists to centres, although arterial roads and large open space areas between centres do impede active transport to a certain degree.




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Transport and accessibility are extremely important for enabling access to community facilities and services. Public parking and vehicular access for residents with mobility issues is essential, whilst public and active transport opportunities are imperative for those without access to a private vehicle. Significant issues concerning existing transport networks and accessibility to current facilities within the study area have been explored in the previous sections.

Several key government policy documents and plans provide objectives and broader strategies and concepts for the future provision/expansion of public, private and active transport networks throughout the ACT. These are explored in Table 5 below, with particular focus on those concepts applicable to the study area. At present, the only plans for the improvement of these existing facilities is the establishment of rapid corridors identified in the Territory Plan. Although the Woden Town Centre Master Plan identifies some key infrastructure to be provided throughout the centre, this document was published in 2004 and will be superseded by the new master plan to be developed for the area, using the outcomes of this study.

Table 9: Transport Facility and Infrastructure Objectives and Broader Strategies

Objectives ,

‘1.3roader Strategies and 'Concepts

• Transport Plan • Increase bus fleet

o Integrated land use and transport system • - Park and ride facilities planning • Bike and ride facilities

o Frequent network of rapid corridors and local • Provide bike racks on buses lines

o Active communities • Work with schools to provide effective,

accessible and convenient options

o Urban form that encourages active travel

o Implement minimum coverage standards • Shared paths in town centres and major

employment areas (access across city within reasonable walking • Commuter cycle network distance from households)

o Community transport (for those than can't • Wheelchair accessible public transport,

including mobility aids walk to a regular route) and including • Additional bus shelters and seats community buses, taxis and other demand responsive transport modes


o Expand network of park and ride • Social Plan

o Linking cycling, walking and sustainable transport with land uses, focus on walkability

facilities within public transport corridors and provide new bus stations (2 year time frame)

• Consultation

o Affordable public transport

o Expand community bus service and other public transport

o Masterplanning focus on connectivity and inter-town public transport connections

o Recognise and work with pedestrian network

o Expand bus fleet and upgrade depots, whilst expanding park and ride network further (5 year time frame)

o Modernize parking infrastructure, providing additional bus shelters andstops,

increasing the bus fleet, expanding the network of high frequency public transport corridors and

• Women's Plan

o Safe, secure and accessible facilities in public places

providing a new public transport station at Molonglo (10 year time frame)





4 Stakeholder Engagement

4.1 Stakeholder Engagement Objectives

A key deliverable of the project methodology (refer to task 1.5 of the project plan) and the subsequent Stakeholder Engagement Plan prepared (Phase 1 of the project) was to prepare a narrative summary of the stakeholder engagement outcomes arising from consultation with Territory government directorates, internal ESDD stakeholders, CSR facility service providers and other stakeholders.

The overarching objectives to be achieved through the delivery of the consultation program, as outlined in the Stakeholder Engagement Plan, are as follows:

1. To gather information about the current provision and utilisation of CSR facilities and to determine existing capacities and gaps in provision (i.e. where there is unmet need) across functional categories of CSR facilities and land requirements, specific to predetermined catchment areas for the primary study area and across the wider Woden Valley/ Weston Creek joint district;

2. To identify potential future need for CSR facilities and land take requirements across functional categories, specific to predetermined catchment areas (where possible);

3. To gain an understanding of future plans for CSR facilities and land requirements provided through ACT Government directorates and community and private sector stakeholders;

4. To seek feedback from ESDD on preliminary findings to incorporate into the final issues and options/recommendations reports.

The Stakeholder Engagement Plan separately submitted to ESDD provides additional detail relating to the strategy adopted for stakeholder engagement.

4.2 Phase One Engagement Activities

The sections below provide an overview of the types of consultation activities that were undertaken during Phase 1 of the project, the groups and organisations targeted for consultation and the timing of these activities.

4.2.1 Engagement Techniques

The consultation undertaken as part of Phase 1 of the project comprised four main elements:

1. One-on-one meetings; 2. Workshops; 3. Surveys; and 4. Phone Interviews.





4.2.1.1 One-on-one meetings

One-on-one meetings were used to elicit standard information from each interviewee, directorate or organisation. A set of standard questions were discussed with the interviewees during the one-on-one interview. Contact details for the relevant members of each project team (from ESDD, Buckley Vann and Strategic Leisure Group) were also provided to participants.

Please see Appendix D.1 for record of the discussions held during the one-on-one meetings.

4.2.1.2 Workshops

Both the ACT government directorate workshop and the CSR facility service provider workshops were jointly held on both community facilities and sporting and recreation facilities. Formal invitations were issued for the events, providing an explanation of the purpose of the study and the information being sought.

It was initially envisaged that the responses to the proformas would be submitted to the project team at the relevant workshops. However, this did not occur and four proformas have subsequently been returned and their findings have been included in this report.

The two workshops involved the presentation of information to participants regarding the project, including background, purpose and study area information, so that participants could make informed contributions. The primary focus of these sessions was to obtain information from participants regarding current, emerging and future needs for CSR facilities in the study area.

This information was collected through small group work, facilitated by a consultant or project team member. Findings from these sessions were recorded and reported back to the whole group at the end of the session.

Please see Appendix D.2 for a summary of the workshop outcomes.

4.2.1.3 Proformas

Prior to the one-on-one meetings and workshops, Government directorate representatives were issued with a 'proforma' (a standard set of questions in a form to be filled in by the government representatives). The proformas were considered necessary in order to obtain the detailed level of information being requested by the consultant team, which could not be easily conveyed through a meeting or workshop format.

Please see Appendix D.3 for a summary of the responses received from the government directorates.

4.2.1.4 Surveys

Strategic Leisure Group conducted two separate surveys (of sporting and recreation providers and schools) to elicit information about schools use of community sport and recreation facilities and community use of sport and recreation facilities located within schools. The survey was distributed and collated via Survey Monkey.

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Please see Appendix D.4 and D.5 for a summary of the survey responses.

4.2.1.5 Phone interviews

A number of phone interviews have been completed by the consultant team with the remaining phone interviews to occur throughout later project phases. The intent is for the phone interviews to occur on an 'as needs' so that the consultant team can seek information from stakeholder at various stages throughout the project.

i t is understbod.that ESN) it to sot up and participate in ail future phone interviews..

A summary of the phone interviews undertaken to date is provided in Appendix D.1.

4.2.2 S t akeho lde r s Consulted

The following table (see overleaf) identifies stakeholders involved in both the one-on-one meetings, as well as the workshop sessions. The relevant interests, engagement method and date of engagement for each stakeholder are also provided in this table.

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Health Directorate (HD) One-on-one meeting Representatives:

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Thursday August 9, 2012 • Government health policy, funding for non-government healthcare organisations

Education and Training Directorate (ETD)

One-on-one meeting Representative:

Thursday August 9, 2012 • Education services, including government and non-government schools and vocational education and training Government Directorate Workshop

Representative: Thursday August 16, 2012

Woden Community Services (VVCS)

One-on-one meeting Representatives:

Thursday August 9, 2012 • Organisation, management and provision of CSR facilities and services throughout the study area

Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate (ESDD)


Friday August 10, 2012 • Development assessment, land use, utilities regulation, surveying, land information, heritage and transport planning .

• Project manager and project steering group member

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Government Directorate Workshop Representatives:

Thursday August 16, 2012

Libraries ACT, Territory and Municipal Services Directorate (TAMSD)

One-on-one meeting Representative:

Friday August 10, 2012 .

• Plans and delivers libraries and library services for the entire ACT

Government Directorate Workshop Representative:


Community Services Directorate (CSD)


Friday August 10, 2012 • Human service functions • Project steering group member

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Economic Development Directorate (EDD)

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Thursday August 16, 2012 ' Sport and recreation facilities and provision

• Land release and major projects • Project steering group member

Emergency Services Agency (ESA), Justice and Community Safety Directorate (JACSD)


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Thursday August 16, 2012 • Justice, law, commercial practices and emergency.servicesCanberra

Institute of Technology (CIT)


Thursday August 16,2012 • Provision of tertiary level education services

, Property Group, Territory and Municipal Services Directorate ( T A M S D ) O n e - o n - o n e meeting

Representatives: • '

Friday August 17, 2012 • Plans, develops and delivers a range of municipal'services through specialised business groups

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Club • _ _ - Gymnastics ACT

_ • - Trials Club of Canberra

Friday August 17, 2012 • Organisation, management and "provision of CSR facilities and services throughout' the study area

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4.3 Summary of Findings — Community Facilities

4.3.1 Exist ing a n d P l a n n e d / P r o p o s e d Communi ty Facilities

Using a similar approach to that adopted for the background document review, the summary of consultation outcomes is based around the following categories:

• Health; a Education; • Cultulal fabilities;

• Emergency and justice; a General community spaces; • Targeted facilities, including children, youth and aged care; and

• Cemeteries.

Table 11 below identifies existing community facilities identified by directorates and service providers, and plans and proposals for community facilities according to these categories.

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• CSD currently own and manage 120 community facilities in total

• Some CSD sites are large and multi-tenanted, with the CSD acting as a commercial landlord. Rent is paid to CSD at a rate per square metre, with all operational costs, capital works and maintenance paid for by the CSD. In these situations, the rent covers basic utilities and is often at a lower than average market rate.

• These centres are known as community hubs, with separate not for profit organisations operating out of the space and having a different leasing structure to normal commercial premises

• The smallest hub operated by CSD contains 5 tenants, whilst the largest houses 20 tenants • CSD also runs a number of neighbourhood houses (a smaller version of a community hall that can be

used by various organisations but is more of a single use space), neighbourhood halls and community halls (more regional type centres)

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Children • CSD currently own and manage 44 childcare centres • WCS 60 place child care centre • Space in Weston Creek community hub, used by a family care community playgroup and an office that

is used weekly for programs and meetings

• WCS provide life cycle services — children's services, family day care scheme, 7 school aged programs (run out of 6 schools — Torrens, Farrah, Curtain, Lions, Red Hill and Garran), Lyons has an early childhood school

N/A

Youth • Youth centre near police station, out of which WCS run programs • Garran, Torrens, Farrah and Red Hill also run before school programs • 25 home based childcare educators

• Child, youth and family services program across Weston Creek and Oaks Estate (Southside Community Services) - family case management and youth engagement

N/A

Aged Care • WCS Community access problem for elderly, through which they can be taken around the community

• Home care service for aged (over 60 years) N/A

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[7.07MMI2511 ilia4t4141firOzW: Health • The Canberra Hospital includes a new mental health unit and is currently undergoing the opening of the

first stage of a women and children's unit

• Phillip community health centre • Private health services are well provided for — close proximity to major hospital • Cancer accommodation house in Duffy • Chifley Health and Wellbeing centre (just outside the boundaries of the Woden Creek Group Centre)

. • Mental health programs (outreach and recovery focussed) — whole of Canberra and Southside

• Disability services, including flexible youth respite services) • Community bus (ACTION) — those who can't access public transport • Home and Community Care program (Community transport, home assistance, social support, domestic

assistance)

Education • Pre-schools in Lyons, Chifley, Pearce and Torrens, Farrer, Mawson, Garran and Hughes • 2 pre-schools in Curtin

• Primary schools in Curtin (P-6), Hughes (P-6), Lyons (P-8), Torrens (P-6), Fan-er (P-6), Mawson (P-6), Garran (P-6) and Hughes (P-6)

• High schools — Melrose High (7-10) and Alfred Deakin High (7-10)

• Canberra College Woden Campus (11-12)

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Pre-election commitment to move the CC Cares program (for young mums going to school) from Sterling to Canberra College Melrose High School looking at installing artificial grass to improve the image of the school Private school registration applications: no applications for schools in Woden and only one application in Molonglo

. Weston Creek does not currently have its own College, but instead feeds into Woden No plans for new schools in Woden and the focus is mainly on managing enrolment, out of area students and providing improved infrastructure where the demand calls for it. Expanding the capacity of schools using transportable buildings, i.e. demountables. One example of this is Duffy

Cultural • 9 individual libraries across the whole of Canberra and one heritage library (located in Woden and collocated with a standard library service). Includes local history information and other services, such as the digitisation of information about heritage groups and family histories

• Both Dickson and Woden libraries are located in heritage buildings (challenges for expansion of these facilities)

• 2 mobile library buses, servicing the southern part of the ACT extensively (there is a great demand for them in this region)

• Home library service for elderly, disabled, housebound and chronically ill residents. Also helpful for those that cannot access parking and feel intimidated by the presence of the library

• Dickson is one of the busiest and most popular libraries (located in a shopping centre and receives a lot of complementary foot traffic)

• Woden is the busiest library (accessible via an arterial road network, situated near a bus terminal) and includes larger spaces for recreation and one meeting room.

• One meeting room, with bookable facilities for community groups such as AA

• Dickson and Woden each accept 1,000 people through their doors every day and are open 7 days a week

• ACTION community buses routes have been modified to service main corridors and become more economical in their service provision

Emergency and Justice • Woden Community Services (WCS) - Bushfire response program —rural pilot program for those affected in 2003, maintain a social support team for individuals

• Police Station (Callum Street)

• Forensic Medical Centre (morgue)

• Fire Station (Hindmarsh Drive)

• Ambulance Station (Hindmarsh Drive)

• State Emergency Services (SES) Base (Parramatta Street, Phillip) • • • Phillip Forensic Medical Centre (morgue) has been completed recently

• Minor upgrade of Woden SES

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4.3.2 ACT Community Facilities Planning

This section of the report provides a summary of information arising from the consultation3 in relation to responsibilities for provision of community facilities, standards of provision or other planning methodologies, service areas (catchments) and design requirements for new facilities.

4.3.2.1 Responsibilit ies fo r Provision

A range of community facilities are planned by, and in some cases operated and managed by, the stakeholders interviewed for the purpose of this study. They also play a range of other functions in funding services, developing policy and regulating various community facilities.

Responsibilities in terms of community facility provision identified for the various ACT government directorates include:

• Health Directorate: tertiary hospitals, acute hospitals and sub-acute hospitals, enhanced community health centres, generalist community health centers and aged day care/respite centres;

• Community Services Directorate: child and family health centres, community hubs, neighbourhood halls, neighbourhood houses, some child care centres, a seniors club (Tuggeranong), evacuation centres and youth justice centres;

• Education and Training Directorate: public schools, including early childhood schools, preschools, primary schools (P-6), high schools (7-10), secondary colleges (11-12) and special schools, associated education and training facilities, registration of non-government

schools and home education;

• ACT Libraries, Territory and Municipal Services Directorate: public libraries and mobile library (book bus);

• Territory and Municipal Services Directorate: cemeteries and crematoria;

• Emergency Services Agency, Justice and Community Safety Directorate: police stations, forensic medical centres, fire stations, SES bases, ambulance stations and multi-use emergency services facilities;

• Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT): institute of technology campuses; • Arts ACT: arts hubs/arts precincts, performing arts centres, creative and performing arts

centres, community arts centres/community theatres;

• ACT Law Courts and Tribunals: courthouses; and

• ACT Corrective Services (ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety): correctional centres.

A range of other providers (including the commonwealth government, community and private sectors) are responsible for a large number of other community facilities (see Section 2.2 and the definitions for ACT Government and other community facilities are provided in Appendix B).

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4.3.2.2 Planning Methodologies

The consultation indicates that ACT government directorates adopt a range of planning methodologies for providing these facilities. Not all utilise a standard level of provision in the planning for new community facilities. Where a standard is adopted, it is identified under the relevant directorate below.

Health Directorate

The Health Directorate (HD) undertake current planning projects and needs analysis through a review Of current activities and demographics, including age, sex, place of residence and disease/condition rates, as well as population projections from the Chief Minister and Cabinet Directorate (CMCD).

As an additional layer to this information, projections are overlaid with clinical trends. This includes cures, stays in hospitals and benchmarks against other jurisdictions, as well as likely changes due to health promotion. These figures assist in modelling assumptions about what is changing in the ACT and where reductions in services are occurring.

These projections are used primarily for more sophisticated and higher level services that cater for the populations' health needs, such as hospitals and other tertiary level services. The range covers not just the ACT, but parts of NSW as well.

Education and Training Directorate

The Education and Training Directorate (ETD) primarily use enrolment projection modelling, comprised of two major models:

1. Pupil generation model (on a suburb basis); and 2. Retention model (transition points).

Generally a threshold of additional students is set over a five year projection period for a single suburb (i.e. 400 students for a primary school, 250 students for a high school and 300 students for a college) at which point planning for new facilities is triggered. This includes trends for land release, housing, occupations, births and enrolment rates. Maximum desired facility enrolments are capped at:

• 700 for primary schools;

• 1,000 for high schools; and

• 1,000 for colleges.

The role of the 5 year projections is to ensure that when a school gets close to capacity, an analysis of the area can be conducted. in this situation, principals can be told that they need to cap the number of 'out of area' students being taken in and to prioritise students in their Priority Placement Area (PPA). The role of the 1 year projection is to monitor progress and ensure that demands are being met.




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Planning is also considered on a lifecycle scenario. Weston Creek is currently regenerating and experiencing enrolment pressure. Woden is also under some pressure.

In relation to non-government schools, the ETD does not have 30 year plans for land allocation and does not regulate the provision of these schools. Although they issue approvals, licences and conduct viability studies for these facilities, if they comply with the relevant legislation, they are not extensively monitored or overseen by the ETD.

Catholic and independent schools also do independent monitoring and programming.

ACT Libraries, Territory and Municipal Services Directorate

ACT Libraries, as a branch within the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate (TAMSD), aims to provide a limited number of quality services in limited centres, rather than a lot of small services in numerous locations. This is largely due to the geography of the city and how it has developed. It was reported that Canberra has the lowest number of library sites per capita throughout the whole of Australia.

Generally, library provision is not planned by the ACT Libraries business unit. At present, the current model for service provision is responsive to community demand, with each library being unique in its location, level of service and capacity, depending on the demands and needs of the community. Although demographic analysis is not a key demand modelling tool utilised by TAMSD, they do currently use accountability indicators to determine trends in growth and movement and these are used to warrant the provision of additional services within existing libraries.

Planning and provision is driven by political pressure, customers and demand, with colocation being a significant consideration. Demand is also based on planning and growth of the surrounding area, with housing developments bringing customers and a 'population pull.' These are often a stimulus for the provision of new library facilities. Consultation is undertaken before designs are made for new facilities. Various industry benchmarks are sometimes used as a guide, including service levels per capita.





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Emergency Services Agency

The Emergency Services Agency (ESA), a branch of the Justice and Community Safety Directorate (JACSD), has not provided detailed information regarding demand modelling processes. However in the information provided it was identified that standards of fire cover and emergency response performance times largely inform the current level of service being provided and areas of demand for additional emergence service and facilities throughout Canberra.

4.3.2.3 Service Areas

Each of the organisations interviewed as part of this consultation strategy service varying catchment areas, which are described below.

Health Directorate

The HD has a distinct hierarchy for the provision of facilities. Tertiary level hospitals, such as The Canberra Hospital in Woden Valley provide the highest level of services for the whole of the ACT. These facilities are supported by smaller hospitals and enhanced community health centres, which provide for north and south Canberra catchments. These centres include services such as breast screening and other community health services. Generalist community health centres provide services for a more local catchment (group centres), including clinical and outreach programs (such as wellness clinics).

Emergency Services Agency, Justice and Community Safety Directorate

The JACSD did not provide information regarding specific service districts, however, reference was made to Standards of Fire Cover and Emergency Response performance targets that must be met by jurisdictions.

Education and Training Directorate

The ETD currently has 4 networks for administration purposes:

1. Woden-Weston; 2. Gungahlin;





3. Tuggeranong; and 4. North of Canberra.

Generally, there is approximately one early childhood school and college per region while primary and secondary schools are provided based on enrolment demand. Specialist education schools service multiple regions and there are currently three such schools throughout the ACT.

Demand in certain areas and for certain schools depends not only on availability, but the types of programs, staff and facilities on offer. Priority Placement Area (PPA) boundaries ensure that

• children have automatic enrolment in schools in their suburb (see Appendix E for a map of these boundaries).

It was reported that when children cross boundaries to attend certain schools, this puts pressure on the capacity of schools. In some schools, 50% of students are out of area students. Although schools have the discretion to refuse students, this is often difficult. Canberra College is one such example, which is currently looking at expansion as it exceeds existing capacity.

4.3.2.4 Design and Other Standards

Few of the organisations contacted for the purposes of this consultation were able to provide information regarding any particular design guidelines or standards applicable to community facilities, in addition to those mandated by various statutory regulations and Australian Standards. However, several examples of good design and best practice were identified.

Representatives of the HD noted that outpatient and clinical health services are soon to be relocated from the Canberra Hospital. They mentioned that these activities should already be provided out in the community and the relocation of these facilities is seen as a natural progression/development of the hospital. The future design of both hospitals and facilities should take these ideas into consideration.

The ETD stated that each school is designed and approved on a case by case scenario, although there have been Commonwealth guidelines (including design standards) that must be achieved to be eligible for some funding opportunities. Recent projects have required schools to incorporate multiple storey buildings, in response to site constraints. Although this is a valid option for some schools, the ETD notes it shouldn't become common design practice for facilities such as early learning centres.

The flexible use of schools is another important consideration. The ETD believes that schools should be viewed as community facilities that are being used as schools because of the current level of demand. However, when they are past their enrolment peak, these facilities should also be able to be used for other community purposes, such as an aged care facility. The colocation of other facilities with schools and the use of school facilities by community members outside school hours for other activities is considered part of a flexible outcome. Community hubs are one facility type which has utilised surplus school buildings.





With regard to best practice in design, the TAMSD provided the Gungahlin library as an example of a well designed and functional space. This facility is colocated with a campus of Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT), and has 2 meeting rooms, 2 training rooms and 2 conference rooms. It was indicated as an example for the design of future library facilities.

4.3.3 Reported Needs

An important output of each consultation activity was determining existing/emerging and future needs of the community that is or will be living, working and using facilities within the study area. The following table details the existing/emerging and future community facility needs of the study area as identified during the one-on-one consultation activities, government directorate workshop and service provider workshop.




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• Social isolation for disabled (huge driver of demand for facilities and services, including community bus)

Education • No schools for dual community use in Woden and study area • • Specialized learning centres at Canberra Institute of Technology, service at Woden campus is currently adequate • Education support needed in Weston Creek •

Cultural • Possible refurbishment of ACT heritage library site, due to demographic changes • _ -

• Affordable access to facilities including art spaces, cultural centres and performance spaces • •

Performance spaces for youth (performance space at Canberra College has just been constructed) Arts centre with a dance space

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• Manageable library spaces • Access to Woden Library

• Customer profile can be challenging for staff at Woden library, i.e. methadone clinic patients, homeless, mental health issues, substance abusers. Staff are trained to manage situations but this is a key issue for library facilities

• Book loans are currently increasing, as is the use of the virtual library system and the number of people visiting libraries within the ACT

• Use of children library services has grown and the number of families in Woden would support a dedicated children's library

• Location of libraries along bus routes - poor public transport during the weekends causes accessibility issues

• Church facilities in Woden used on the weekend but left idle during the week - opportunity for greater use of these facilities, i.e. Anglican Church on Petheridge Street had a major redevelopment 3 or 4 years ago and has a large kitchen space

Emergency and • Woden is quite isolated and it would be good to 'have more people around' to improve the feeling of safety' • , Fire station to include education/training facilities

Justice • Emerging services and reviewing strategic locations of fire, police and access and response times • Several sites require refurbishment

General • Current facilities may be replaced with residential development • Community service hub in Woden (feasibility study currently underway) to Community • Community land resources and facilities are diminishing and housing and population is increasing house Woden Community Services, seniors centre and a child care centre. Spaces and • Issues surrounding private development-versus government development - government secure more funds if developers by the sites This facility would include meeting rooms for general hire as well Facilities

• • •

Community meeting rooms and facilities that are multipurpose, cost effective and offer inexpensive activities Need some built for purpose spaces - although multi-purpose is good, some groups have specific needs (adaptation can be difficult) Need more storage space at most facilities

• Woden has a 'fair' amount of office space available, however in other areas, this has been turned into residential developments (a possibility in the study area) . .

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Management of multi-use spaces is a problem - renting spaces for certain periods and removing cost effectiveness and efficient use of the space (managing to maximum usage) Perhaps the solution is to group common activities, services or groups together in one facility and design for this purpose, rather than trying to design for all purposes

• Provision of services for msidents throughout ACT, not just those living in the area (working, being education, passing through) - unknown how this will continue and change relationship, capacity and range of facilities provided, as more people,do move into areas and require these facilities

• Need for a care and share facility (food distribution, donation of goods) - emerging issue with emerging working class poor • . Access to information about facilities and services is not freely and readily available

• Costs for facility and service provision are a concern • Appears to be a cycle of 'keeping up,' providing facilities for a society that is comprised of large groups at either end of the age spectrum • Woden Community Services outgrown current space (increasing level of service provision) .

• Community hubs have been established previously, however, demand has not decreased - gap between supply and demand still evident

• Demand for community facility land is very high, with CSD waiting list occupied by 120-170 organisations (range of land size demands) (TAMS has a similar list, with groups that have been waiting for more than a decade) - spaces are awarded based on community need and the overarching objectives of the relevant directorate

• High demand for community room/facility - to be located in town centre, close to public transport, attractive as a functional and flexible space for use by the broader community (kitchen, breakout space, offices, etc.)

• Communities are not as actively engaged in Woden

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Children • Child care placements for workers in Phillip • Increased need from a deniographic shift for both child and family centres • Improved access to child care . Child care centre and possible learning centre at CIT

• Relocation of child care centre in Cooleman Street to Stifling is possible • Development of Molonglo will place pressure on childcare centres and youth • Demand for child care centre, family and child centre in Woden facilities in Woden (geographically more accessible than areas to the north)

• Dual age groups becoming more prominent throughout ACT — facilities to service both groups • Location of child care centres on third and fourth floors of buildings — looking for innovative solutions

Youth • Youth support in the form of outreach, rather than centres N/A • Low cost activities for youth

Aged Care • Ageing population (20% of individuals will be over 60 years of age soon) • Housing for older people needs to be accessible and affordable, can be in • •

Virtual village project run previously but lack of funding has resulted in a failure to continue Aged care higher needs facilities in Woden - no aged cay care centres in VVoden, aged care is also available in Weston and Curtin though •

higher rise buildings , Independent living units are'very expensive — how to provide this less

• Importance of senior centres to be integrated rather than isolated expensively?

• High density housing not appropriate for elderly residents, i.e. Woden Green difficulty selling apartments • Movement of empty nesters centre areas — as they age, they will require

• Facilities should have flat surfaces for elderly residents .into

additional and different facilities • Need for men's shed similar to Dickson and Tuggeranong

• Woden Senior Citizens Centre requires additional space • Social isolation for elderly (huge driver of demand for facilities and services, including community bus)

• Dual age groups becoming more prominent throughout ACT— facilities to service both groups

Transport • Public transport facilities not great out in the suburbs • Affordable aged accommodation where people can walk in safety with other

• Rapid transport planning for Wocien, relocation of interchange and lay overs to be created forms of transport, i.e. cyclists.

• Cycle facilities are quite good in Woden • Scooters require their own lane (mobility corridor)

• Require better links from Woden Centre to Eddison Park • Wider walking paths, favouring bikes, pedestrians, school trips.

• Multi-storey car parks inappropriate for elderly residents - adequate undercover parking for senior citizens requirecrat facilities • Transport needs to be integrated with town centre • Footpaths conditions and clarity of walking paths needs improvement - sharing pathways with cyclists can be dangerous • Community transport • . • Road crossings required for cyclists and additional pedestrian crossings • Planning needs tofocus on accessibility

• Accessible public transport close to facilities

• Parking is a significant issue in Woden. This creates significant issues for accessing libraries, health centres, especially for senior citizens (public transport is difficult to use therefore parking is required)

• Major developments driving transport plans

• Bus interchange needs an upgrade

• Transport for those with a disability and the elderly is difficult — community transport needed

• Accessibility is a big issue — getting across Melrose Drive is difficult particularly for those with prams and scooters

Housing • Tower block accommodation • Potential demand for housing from employment growth • CHC Affordable Housing is the main provider of social housing in ACT (through affordable housing) and there are 4 other providers • Need to step away from concentrating public housing and accommodation in

• Affordable housing being sold and used for new developments, with reduced social housing components (if they are to be sold, appropriate replacements should be developed and integrated into projects)

pockets of disadvantage and they instead need to be 'salt and peppered' throughout communities and developments

• High density residential development should be established near facilities and vice versa • Infill development will bring great changes to future needs of population

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4.4 Summary of Findings — Sport and Recreation Facilities

4,4.1 Interviews

Interviews via phone or face to face were undertaken with a number of agencies, sports and operators to gain an understanding of the current facility issues, the participation and other trends apparent in sport and any plans or proposals which will impact on planning for WAM. The notes from these are contained in Appendix D.1.

The following table (Table 13) liSts the consultation with sport and reereatiOn provider-groUps to - date.

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23/08/2012 CEO

Aquatic Swimming ACT

21/08/2012 Centre Manager Aquatic/ Ice Phillip Ice Skating Rink

21/08/2012 . ,, Centre Manager

Aquatic/ Ice Phillip Swimming Pool

22/08/2012 Centre Manager

Court Woden Squash Centre

22/08/2012 CEO

Court ACT Netball

22/08/2012 CEO Court Tennis ACT

22/08/2012 CEO

Field Capital Football

23/08/2012 RTC Manager

Field NSW/ACT AFL

22/08/2012 Field ACT Touch

22/08/2012 President

Field Woden Valley Junior Soccer

23/08/2012 Manager

Indoor/ court Mpowerdome

21/08/2012 Sport ACT Sport

Phone 30/08/2012 Wendy Pinkerton, CEO

Athletics ACT Athletics Association

04/09/2012 PreSident

Athletics Little Athletics ACT


Athletics ACT Veterans Athletics Club

05/09/2012 CEO

Club/ indoor Southern Cross Club

24/08/2012 Manager Court VVoden Basketball Centre

29/08/2012 Court Basketball ACT





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10/09/2012 Gym Fitness Fitness Australia (ACT)

24/08/2012 Court SCClub- Indoor courts Manager

Workshop 29/0812012 President

Court Squash ACT

Field Softball ACT

LM x 2 Gymnastics Gymnastics act


Field Woden Valley Soccer club

Survey Sir/Madam Ice Skating ACT Ice Hockey Association

, Ice Skating ACT Ice Skating Association

Pending Emailed General Manager

Court Volleyball ACT

LM x2 Field Cricket ACT

LM Field Brumbies Rugby Union

LM x3 Field Rugby league

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LM x 2 Sir/Madam Green Bowls ACT

4.4.1.1 Planning for Growth

The following section summarises key points of relevance to planning for growth in WAM.

Pool and Ice skating centre

The Phillip Pool is an important facility for aquatic sports serving a large catchment and offering

a good venue for school competitions. Similarly the Ice skating rink is the only ice facility in ACT and is highly valued by user groups. The main issues with this facility are:

1. The facility is privately owned and there is no indication the owner is interested in upgrading or enhancing the facility. The planning scheme requires that any use on the site (although it is zoned commercial purposes) must include an Olympic pool and competition standard ice rink.

2. The facility is aging and is most probably reaching the end of its useful life unless it is refurbished

3. The pool is an outdoor pool and without heating and roofing will not serve winter demand.

4. If residential growth, particularly higher density growth, proceeds in the town centre then it is highly desirable to have an all year swimming facility.






5. Demand for swimming pools in the south is high and provision levels are low- the future provision of a facility in Molonglo is several years away and the only other increased provision / upgrading is proposed for north of the lake.

Southern Cross Club Facilities

The Southern Cross Club currently leases the old Yamba Club, basketball facilities and other buildings in the town centre. They provide extensive gym and fitness opportunities as well as operating the aging three (3) court indoor sports centre. This lease will expire in 2015 and there is no guarantee any of these.uses will continue.

The club does own the Pitch and Putt land and has plans to redevelop that site. The provision of ongoing sport and fitness facilities is important both for the existing community and any future growth. Unfortunately the Southern Cross Club is unlikely to want to invest capital in sporting facilities- they may develop a mixed use facility which continues gym and fitness offers but there is uncertainty regarding any opportunity for indoor sports courts.

Observations surrounding this and the pool/ ice skating issue are:

1. From an overall provision perspective, an integrated indoor sport fitness, aquatic and ice skate complex would be more viable than individually managed facilities. Consideration of inclusion of the squash courts may add to this viability.

2. It is unlikely that any of the current players in the town centre would consider developing such a facility.

3. There is limited land available and the Pitch and Putt represents a sensible location for such a facility when considering planning for growth overall.

4. The loss of the indoor courts would have a significant impact as there are several sports that indicated they already are unable to secure sufficient court hours for current demand.

5. High density residential growth would be expected to increase demand for these facilities particularly social sport, fitness and swim.

Proposal for Synthetic Athletics Track at Philip Ground three

Advice from Sport and Recreation Services (SRS) was that this facility was being considered for development of a synthetic athletics track. It is suggested that this proposal be reviewed as it is not supported by any of the Athletics associations or the field sport users of the grounds. Advice from Athletics is that additional tracks are needed and that provision of a new synthetic track at Stromlo would be a better investment allowing the sport to grow and also placing a facility where demand will be increasing. This notion was supported by the Little Athletics.

Use Pressure and Demand at Mawson Fields

Mawson Fields are heavily used and the resident sports indicate that there is little capacity to accommodate growth in these fields. Population growth in the WAM area will increase demand and improvements to the Mawson fields are recommended to assist with accommodating demand and allowing increased efficiency of use. The main suggestions were:





1. Convert the currently vacant land (old driving range) into a new enclosed oval/ synthetic field for rectangular format sports. The space available would probably allow for a small half field for training use as well.

2. Increased the amount of fields with lighting to allow increased evening use

Squash Courts

The squash courts in Phillip are an important part of the sports infrastructure and there is a need for squash to plan for the development of a national standard competitions facility. The courts are currently well used and with population growth in the area it would be expected demand for the courts would increase. Court provision across ACT is low and squash believes there is considerable unmet demand for casual play and social competition.

It is possible that the existing centre could be expanded to accommodate more courts and the overall plan for the town centre should consider the desirability of this.

An alternative suggested by squash was that ACT government offer them an alternative site to lease and the development of a new facility could be funded by sale of the existing site for residential development. A disincentive to this strategy is the likely cost of the rezoning of the land.

Tennis Courts at Mawson and loss of Courts at Phillip

Tennis ACT recognises that demand for casual play and social modes of tennis will increase and currently is not well provided for. While tennis has specific strategies for more facilities and increased participation there are access issues which inhibit this growth in participation. Increased access to the Mawson courts for casual play may be part of a response but a local provision as part of the Woden Town Centre would also be desirable.

Encouraging the addition of two (2) or three (3) courts for social/ casual and program use as part of an integrated sports and fitness facility would be reasonable given the likely demographic of residents in higher density areas.

4.4.1.2 Demographic Indications and Participation Trends

A number of likely participation trends and demographic indications have emerged from the discussions with the providers and agencies. These are summarised below:

1. With higher density residential growth the age of residents may be higher and the need for provision of junior sporting facilities may be less than urban growth areas such as Molonglo and Gungahlin;

2. The trend for increased participation in social sport is well documented and was reinforced in discussions. The indications are that there is greater acceptance of "pay play and away" modes of participation in sport and increased preference for casual access (e.g. 24 hour gyms) in fitness programs. This means that more commercial models of provision are needed as the traditional club based model is unlikely to be





sustainable. Increasing competiveness in this area also means that facilities offering multiple programs and a mix of indoor, wet and outdoor facilities are likely to be more successful; and

3. The trend for self-directed physical activity, fitness and exercise was also noted. This means that demand for bikeways, pathways, links to parks and outdoor exercise sites is likely to increase as is the need for design for public space that accommodates these uses. Issues such as lighting, safety, parking, amenities and signage will all be relevant.

4.4.1.3 Sporting Bodies Planned Growth and Facility Access s s

Many of the sports interviewed indicated they had current plans and strategies driving participation growth. While many of the strategies included modified modes to target social participation or offer fitness related activity- there was also a strong expectation that formal competition growth will occur. Many of the sports related current facility shortages and latent demand for access to facilities or even for participation in the sport.

There was acknowledgement of the likely growth "hot spots" being associated with urban growth suburbs in Gungahlin and Molonglo and the need for new facilities to accommodate this was reinforced. However, the need to retain all the existing facilities and fields in Woden was also strongly affirmed. This raises the issue discussed earlier in regard to the facilities in Woden Town Centre and what strategies may be available to ensure provision is not lost in the locale.

4.4.2 Summary of survey results

4.4.2.1 Sports Groups / Providers

Overview: Invitations to complete the survey were emailed to clubs and organisations on SRS' mailing list. A total of 15 responses were received. These were:

• Weston Creek Cricket Club;

• Southlands Tennis Club;

• Tennis ACT;

• Touch Football ACT;

• Canberra Region Rugby League;

• ACT Badminton;

• ACT Veterans Athletics Club;

• Phillip Swimming and Ice Skating Centre;

• ACT Ice Skating Association;

• Volleyball ACT;

• Mpowerdome;

• Softball ACT;

• Two (2) individual submissions from people "generally" involved in sport.




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Membership Trends:

Of the thirteen (13) sports that responded, eleven (11) reported an increase in participation. The two that didn't, Softball ACT and Southlands Tennis, reported a decline in membership and attributed that to a range of factors with cost of junior participation mentioned by tennis and softball unsure if any single factor contributed more than others.

Of the sports reporting growth - Badminton show the greatest change with members going from 189 to 450. This was attributed to extensive advertising and promotion of the sport.

_ Interestingly they also noted that growth would have been even higher if they could haVe accessed additional court hours for their sport.

Participation Trends:

A range of trends were reported. Key themes are summarised below with the bullet points quoting observations from individual surveys:

Increased demand for social sport or modified competition:

• Grade cricket formats have recently seen the common inclusion of the T20 (20 over per side) format which has increased playing interest levels.

• Trends towards more mixed sport rather than gender based

• There is an increased demand for social games. • Increased demand for social 'pay to play' volleyball rather than in a traditional club

structure. Increased need for a quality beach volleyball facility and an additional indoor facility for training and competition use.

• Consumers are much less likely to commit to a membership or long term arrangement preferring the flexibility of play/pay as you go.

Increasing importance of facility quality:

• Across the competition, all three grounds (pitches) and associated facilities (change rooms etc.) are rated very highly by Weston Creek paying members as well as opposition club's visiting or utilising the same facilities.

Inequity in facility access and cost of access:

• The biggest barrier to increasing membership is the high cost of club membership. This results largely from the iniquitous terms of the Club's lease from the ACT Government. The Club pays over $8,000 to the ACT Government annually in fixed charges whereas a soccer or softball club in the same area pays none of these charges. Under the lease the club is required to maintain and improve the premises, which costs approx. $5,000 per year. A soccer or softball club in the same vicinity does not have to pay to maintain or improve the facility being used.





Growth barriers due to facility shortage or access shortage:

• Barriers are lack of referees and available grounds in ACT due to competition with other sports.

• The biggest barrier to increasing membership at the moment is the lack of suitable training and playing grounds to enable expansion.

• Larger periods of wet weather have been detrimental to fee paying members missing large portions of the scheduled season.

• The National club (plays at basketball courts managed by Southern Cross Club) has only eleven (11) members and can only play on Monday nights - not suitable for some players. There is demand for junior training/club but difficult to find a suitable venue for training.

• Has been difficult to develop significant day time participation with the vast majority of activities occurring between 4pm-10.30pm. It is very clear that territory sporting groups desire court/space availability at the same time as each other allowing us to service some but not all of those who wish to utilise the facility.

Facility Priorities:

Facility priorities reflected the following themes:

• Upgrading player facilities such as toilets and change rooms • Upgrading playing surface or replacing courts which have reached end of life

• Improving lighting

• Adding additional facilities to expand social programs or accommodate unmet demand

Planning:

Five of the sporting groups indicated they had a formal business or development plan. The expressed priorities from those plans (top three) were:

• Re-assessment and alignment is in progress. Priorities include but are not limited to; player/member retention plans (including junior to senior transitions), incorporation of Molonglo development region into Weston Creek CC catchment zone and club facility development i.e. formalised Weston Creek Club Rooms and picket fence around Stirling Oval etc.

• Increase membership Increase fund raising Increase sponsorship;

• See Touch Football Australia plan at www.austouch.com.au;

• Raise the awareness of ACT Badminton within badminton and wider community; to promote player development; to increase interaction between clubs & increase the number of participation at activities;

• Roll out of new company vision; secure much greater market share for specific brands (programs) that the company has developed. Branch into recreational entertainment market.





Other Comments about Planning for WAM:

• Weston Creek CC 5th grade is our most frequent user of Mawson off Athllon Drive. As too is the 4th grade however to somewhat lesser extent. The pitch at Mawson is rated as one of the best (for lower grade use) in Canberra in terms of its playability and recoverability after rain and the Weston Creek CC believe its retention for cricket use should be a high priority. Overall the Weston Creek CC would rate the Mawson complex as very good. The change room and toilet facilities as well as parking are of high quality with the only thing preventing an 'excellent' rating being the diesel burn line marks in the grass from soccer season which does not recover during the summer and is a very real injury hazard for cricketers.

• There is a gross inequity in the cost of participation in the various sports in the Woden Valley. If the participation costs for tennis were similar for other clubs such as softball and football, we would have a flourishing club. The ACT lease arrangements for tennis clubs need a major overhaul. The Club is in the position of bearing the cost of maintaining and improving the landlord's property. Such costs are normally borne by the landlord.

• Lighting at Deakin 2 would enable us to schedule breaks on our high use fields and get them back to a better condition.

• Would be happy if there are suitable facilities available for the community.

4.4.2.2 Schools

Surveys were sent to all primary and high schools in the Woden District - initial distribution was via email with a link to the on-line survey. Respondents were offered the option to complete a hard copy, a pdf document or for Strategic Leisure Group to phone and talk through the survey.

Fifteen (15) schools in total were targeted and responded. Follow up calls and follow up emails were made after the closing date and this achieved another two (2) completions. For schools very close to the WAM area subsequent discussion will be held if further information is required.

Respondents are listed below and the full results can be found at Appendix D.5.

• Marist College;

• Canberra College;

• Holy Trinity;

• Torrens Primary;

• Garran Primary;

• Curtin Primary.

Use of ACTG facilities:

All schools indicated they used ACT government facilities. The main mentions were:

Pearce ovals; a variety of facilities indoor and outdoor mainly in South Canberra; Curtin oval; Phillip Oval for athletics carnival 1/yr; Garran Oval; and Curtin Oval.





Respondents indicated that the facilities used were either adequate or most adequate for their use.

Community Use of School Facilities:

All of the schools indicated they allowed community use of their facilities. For some this involved allowing certain groups to use the facilities for training and for others it was a more commercial arrangement with a weekly lease fee for use. The average rate for the use of indoor facilities was around $ 20-25/ hour. None of the schools allowed informal community access to facilities..

.

Only one of the schools indicated any future plans for new or upgraded facilities. This was Garran Primary which is planning to upgrade the playing surface of the soccer field when funding can be sourced. The school was unsure if community access to the upgraded field would be provided.

Comments on Sport and Recreation Needs in WAM:

The following comments were received:

• Bring Torrens ovals back on line as a neighbourhood oval. • The college has been in existence for 36 years with no playing fields! A small synthetic

field would be a major improvement. • Torrens oval would be useful to us if it had toilets and was maintained.

4.4.3 Summary of Key Points of Relevance from Agency Meetings

Notes from these meetings are contained in Appendix D.4.

4.4.3.1 Aquatic Facilities

Sport and Recreation Services are currently undertaking an ACT wide strategy for aquatic facilities. As part of this strategy they are reviewing facility hierarchies and provision models. While the planning is incomplete there is already a strong sense of the strategic provision needs over the next decade. These are (in likely order of priority):

• Redevelopment and upgrade of Canberra Olympic as major competition venue for the ACT

• Development of a new facility at Gungahlin

• Development of an integrated aquatic, indoor sport and fitness facility in Molonglo

The importance of the privately owned and operated Swimming and Ice Skating complex at Phillip is already recognised in the planning scheme which has constrained the commercially zoned land where the pool is located to retain those uses in any redevelopment. The Phillip facility is important to Weston and Woden catchments.





4.4.3.2 Sports Fields

Sport and Recreation Services undertook a review of provision of sporting fields in 2011(Forward Planning Strategy) and have recommended a new approach which sees designation of school and community ovals to service neighbourhood level demand. The importance of large multi-field and multi-user district facilities was highlighted in this review and an increase to minimum spatial standards recommended.

A second major implication of the strategy was the identification of "stranded assets" being .small neighbourhood sports fields of limited functionality. With previous years droughts leading to termination of irrigation programs for some of these fields the playing surface and quality was inadequate for anything but informal uses. The recommended strategy was to stop providing small isolated fields in favour of large district precincts which can be more efficiently operated and maintained.

4.4.3.3 Parks and Open Space

The study area has a good supply of neighbourhood and district level parkland. Particularly the recently improved Eddison Park which now offers a major skate park and youth space along with Frisbee golf, exercise stations, playgrounds and an outdoor community events area.

It was felt that there was still room for further enhancement of the parklands to accommodate an increased population in the town centre.

Key issues identified for consideration in planning for the WAM area were:

• A planned stormwater improvement project, which will impact the Athlon drive open space and the Mawson District Fields.

• Need for continued development and enhancement of bikeways and pedestrian links to ensure residents can access the parklands.

• Emerging community demands for Community Gardens and Off-leash areas

4.4.3.4 Education Facilities and Community Access

This is an ongoing negotiation between Sport and Recreation Services and Education Directorate. It is generally acknowledged by all players that it is desirable for the community to have access to school facilities for sport and recreation. However there are concerns surrounding how this access can best be provided. Inconsistent approaches between schools have also made this a difficult issue in the past with the discretion sitting at the local school in the absence of any consistent policy direction and framework for implementation form the directorate.

Sport and Recreation Services are hopeful of progress on a joint policy approach in 2012.





5 CSR Facilities Audit

5.1 Community Facilities

An audit of existing community facilities in Woden Valley District was developed using a format consistent with the COMFIS database provided by the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate. Starting with the ANZIC classification in the COMFIS database, individual facilities have been reclassified based on the CSR classification developed for the purpose of this study, and presented in Section 2.2 (Table 1). The associated definitions used for the audit, and which will be used throughout the study, are included in Appendix B.

In addition, the consultation outcomes, various background documents provided during the consultation phase and general internet searches have been used to cross-check, update and reclassify facilities for the audit. A draft version of the audit is included in Appendix F and a summary is included in Table 14 below. Facilities in this table are grouped into facilities located in Woden Valley Town Centre and Mawson Group Centre (including the Athllon Drive corridor), and those located elsewhere in the Woden Valley district.

Table 14: Summary of Draft Audit Findings

[ Facility Type '

____

'Hierarchy

Located.in Woden

Valley Town Centre /

,Mawson .Group.Centre

'Located .Elsewhere

Total

ialEMEGtauluijaV Spaces Meeting Room Local 7 5 12

Religious Facility Sub-district 5 19 24

Licensed Club Sub-district 6 1 7 Neighbourhood Hall/House

Local 2 1 3

Community Centre District 1 0 1

Community Hub District 0 2 2 Catural Facilitirs'a '''''' '''''.1.7 ' " ' 2 , . ' . , , • t4'

Community Arts Centre/ Community Theatre

Sub-district 0 0 0

Creative and Performing Arts Centre

District 0 0 0

Library District 1 0 1

Performing Arts Centre Regional 0 0 0 Arts Hub/Arts Precinct Regional 0 0 0 Convention and Exhibition Centre

Regional 0 0 0






Facility Type ,

Hierarchy -

Locatedlin Woden

Valley Town 'Centre / IVlawson,

Group_Centre

Located Elsewhere

Total

Educational fIflD Preschool Local 1 8 9 Primary School - Government

Local 1 5 6

Primary School - Non- Government

Local 1 4 5

High School - Government

Sub-district 0 2 2

High School - Non- Government

Sub-district 0 1 1

Secondary College - Government

District 1 0

Secondary College - Non-Government

District 0 1 1

Early Childhood School District 0 1 1


District 2 0 2

Special school District 0 1 1

Institute of Technology (CIT) campus

District 1 0 1

University Regional 0 0 0 abilibRIOMB

GP Medical Centre Sub-district 3 8 11

GP Super Clinic District 0 0 0

Medical Specialist Centre

District 0 1 1

Community Health Centre

District 1 0 1

Enhanced Community Health Centre

Sub-regional 0 0 0

Hospital Regional 0 1 1

Emergency (1rThi

Police Station District 1 0 1

Ambulance Station District 1 0 1

Fire and Rescue Station District 1 0 1

Multi-Use Emergency Services Facility

District 0 0 0





___........____

Facility Type Hierarchy

,Located in 'Woden

Valley Town Centre /

.1illawson Group Centre

______ 'Located - Elsewhere Total

Youth Justice Centre Regional 0 0 0 Correctional Centre Regional 0 0 0 Courthouse Regional 0 0 0 Targeted Facilities Children' - ,:t.:110* • - . ,. .,,-. • Long Day (Child Care) Centre

Sub-district 5 7 12

Child and Family Health Centre

District 0 0 0

Targeted youngLeople # , - • " ... , Youth Centre District 0

Targeted Facili es — Aged People and People With a Disability - .,,, Retirement Village Sub-district Facilities not included in audit - benchmarking based on places. Residential Aged Care Accommodation (High, Low Care or a combination)

Sub-district

Aged Day Care Centre District 0 0 0 Senior Citizen's Centre District 1 0 1

- Cemetery/Crematorium Sub-Regional 1 0 1

Notes:

• Alfred Deakin High is included in the figures above as they are located just outside the Woden Valley district boundary;

Some initial comments on the audit include:

• The COMFIS spreadsheet included a number of services — the study will focus on facilities, however information on service providers has been retained and added as additional information in the audit (refer to the `comments' column heading);

• The COMFIS spreadsheet did not include meeting rooms available for hire, which are often the most difficult facility type to capture. In order to identify meeting rooms, consultation notes and general information available online has been used;

• A small number of facilities have been included in multiple categories — these mainly relate to facilities which provide meeting space for hire as part of a larger facility, for example, a community centre; and

• A small number of facilities have been retained in the audit appendix, but will not be benchmarked — these facilities will be considered in the needs assessment. An





example of this type of facility is mobile library buses, which do not have an established benchmark.

Feedback from ESDD on the classification of facilities in the audit will be incorporated before it is finalised for use in the benchmarking and needs analysis.

5.2 Sport and Recreation The following tables are a summary of the sport and recreation facilities audit.

Table 15: Draft Sport and Recreation Facilities Audit - Parks and Public Spaces

- ------ Facility . Tyne

---- Facility/ . ;Hierarchy

.

- Number of " fields/ courts! other

Area Ha

t'xiating Provision ' ratios

-Adopted!

proposed standards

- Comments

Parks and Public Spaces

District 1 large district park

13.63 1/ 34,300 1/25- 50,000

Neighbourhood 34 neighbourhood parks

54.2 1/1,009 400 m of any dwelling 1 ha/ 1000

Town Parks 2 town parks associated with Woden IC

1.3 1/17,150 (1/34,300)

1/50- 100,000

The 2 parks could really be considered as one park

Playgrounds unknown 1/1000 Currently reviewing and developing a new strategy

Youth spaces/ Skate Parks

1 District level Youth precinct with skate park and bouldering facility

1/34300 (Woden)

Current provision Across ACT: 1 district /52,736 1 n'hood/33,559 1 district 117,443 0-24 y.o

Active rec Nodes

Exercise stations around park assoc with pathway

1 in Eddison Park

No provision data

Outdoor event spaces

1 in Eddison Park

No provision data

Unfenced Dog off-leash areas

Numerous locations in parkland and linear park

ACT rough average of max 1km to nearest area- many houses within 500m





----, = Facility Type

facilityr Mierarchy

NOmber of fiekisPcourts/

4 other

Area Ha,

,Ekisting , . , ,Pro4ision ratios

Adopted/ . _ .peopoSecl

standards

ComniTehts

-

areas allowed in catchment

Fenced Off Leash areas

None provided in catchment-

5 provided across ACT 1/78,830

Community Gardens

None provided in catchment- but 6 possible sites identified if community demand arises

Supply of CGs in 2011 was 15 facilities which equated to 1: 24,257 -





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Table 16: Draft Sport and Recreation Facilities Audit - Sports Fields

iF ac ility 'Type

Hierarchy

.

Location Number Of flail:IS/ _ courts/ other

NM Provision ratios

Actopteribproposed standards

.

Comments

Sports Fields

Overall _ 53.95 1.6 Ha/ 1000 Catchment standards revised with a focus on district level sport field precincts at 15 ha complemented by school/ community fields and CRIPs.

Field data provided does not account for some overlay use of various fields- the areas provided are correct for the fields but does not include some peripheral unused areas, carparking areas and possibly other supporting amenities.

District Phillip 2 2 x RU/L 1 X AFL/ cricket

2.1

Deakin 1 2 x RU/L 1 X AFU Cricket

3.6

Deakin 2 2 x AFUCricket (turf) 9 x touch (4.5 RU/L)

9.3

Curtin 1 4,5 x RU/L l x AFL/Cricket 5 x Baseball

6.7

Mawson 1,2 l x cricket (turf) l x RU/L 10 x soccer (mix Jun/sen) 14 softball

10.3

Enclosed Phillip 1 l x AFL/cricket (turf) 2 x RU/L

2.55

Phillip 3 1 x soccer 1 x athletics

2.6 Government proposal for synthetic track here- not support by any of the Athletics assns..

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Facility Type'

—

-Hierarchy Location Number of fieliis/ courts/

o t h e r A r e a Ha ,

,

Provision Adopted/ proposed standards , —

Comments

-- Phillip 4 l x AFU Cricket (turf) 3.4

N'hood Curtin 2 1x Afl/ cricket 2x RU/L

2.1

Garren 1 1x Afl/ cricket 2x RU/L

2.6

Hughes 1 1 x AFL 1 x Cricket 1 x RU/L

3.6

Mawson 3 2x AFL 1 x Cricket

2.5

Pearce 1 1 x RU/L l x Cricket 1 x AFL

2.6

Proposed School- community Oval

Melrose High School

2 x synthetic Soccer

.

Informal Ovals-Not Irrigated or used

Farrer, Chifely, Lyons, Torrens

12 Closure of some previous neighbourhood fields which aren't replaced with school fields. Field sports expressed desire for some fields to be reopened

Outdoor courts and Greens

District Deakin- Netball 4 grass netball (use more if needed) 8 hard netball

Club Hughes- Nth Woden Tennis Club

8 courts

Mawson - 4 courts

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Facility Type

Hierarchy Location Number of fields/ courts/ other

Area Ha ._ Provision ratios

Adopted/ proposed standards

Comments

— Southlands Tennis

__ --

Torrens Tennis Club

2 courts

West Deakin- Hellenic Bowls Club

3 greens Old Southern cross closed in 2010 (3 greens). No local provision on southside

Indoor Courts

District Phillip- Southern Cross Indoor

3 multi marked GFA about 1650 m2

Privately owned by developer. Leased to SCClub until 2015

Phillip- Woden Squash centre

8 squash courts 34 courts 1: 10,857 across ACT

Owned by ACT Squash

Aquatic Facilities

Major Facility

Phillip Swim and Skate

Outdoor: 1 x 50 m pool 20 m program pool Splash pool

Part of whole site 1.2 Ha

Private facility- owned by developer- Planning scheme requires this site to always have 50 m pool and Ice rink. Need expressed in Draft Aquatic Strategy for facility to be retained in Phillip (Multi-suburb

level)

Of the range of pools in ACT only 4 are government owned and many of the provate facilities are reducing to smaller water footprint and focusing on program use

. only. (i.e. no club or comp use)

School Malkara Special School- Hydro therapy pool

Small hydrotherapy pool which is available for community groups out of school hours





.. Fiaility.

-Type Hierarchy ' 'Location Nurfiber of fields/

courts/ other Area Ha Provision

ratios Adopted!, proposed standards

Cornrnents

Other Indoor

Phillip Swim and Skate- Ice Skating Rink

1 rink GFA about 2145m2

1 facility in ACT

Privately owned- but planning scheme requires provision on this site. Ice sports would like to see a redeveloped/ larger facility as there is insufficient capacity to grow the sport and evidence of latent demand.

Other Outdoor

Phillip- Pitch and Putt

P&P golf course 18 holes

3.5 Ha Owned by Southern Cross Club- already have approval for redevelopment

Hughes- Federal Golf Club

18 hole championship course

Approx. 63 Ha

Membership club with cheapest individual option $1000 joining and abt $2000 per year





6 District Comparison

6.1 Community Facilities

6.1.1 Approach

The purpose of the district comparison was to compare the existing rates of provision in the Woden Valley with the rates of provision in the other ACT districts of Belconnen, Gungahlin and Tuggeranong. This analysis will inform the forthcoming analysis of needs and desired standards of service for subsequent study phases.

As described in Section 5, in preparing the audit, individual facilities were researched and reclassified according to the revised facility classification prepared by the consultant team. This approach was not possible for the case study analysis due to the number of community facilities included in the district comparison (around 1,000 facilities) and the lack of sufficient information in the COMFIS database on which to make the reclassification. Therefore, the approach used involves adopting a simplified version of the revised facility classification for the purpose of the district comparison.

This simplified version of the classifications involved grouping a number of facility types together and excluding other facilities. Appendix G.1 provides a comparison of the facility groupings used for the district comparison and the categories used in the COMFIS spreadsheet. A consequence of this approach will be that the number of facilities will differ between the audit and the district comparison because of the different methodology used to classify and count facilities. Given the different purposes of these elements of the project, the size of the analysis, and the limitations of the data, an alternative approach was not considered to be available.

It is therefore important to note that, when considering the number of community facilities in Woden Valley, the audit figures will be the most appropriate, as they have included a systematic categorisation and have been confirmed by consultation findings and other data. The figures used for the town centre analysis are, however, still considered to be useful for the purposes of comparing the provision of facilities and the role of facilities and centres in the broader hierarchy.

The following facility types were not included in the district comparison analysis due to the lack of adequate information in the COMFIS spreadsheet:

• Meeting Room;

• Community Centre;

• Community Hub;

• Community Arts Centre/ Community Theatre; • Creative and Performing Arts Centre; • Performing Arts Centre; • Convention and Exhibition Centre; • Arts Hub/Arts Precinct;





• GP Super Clinic;

• Medical Specialist Centre;

• Multi-Use Emergency Services Facility;

• Youth Justice Centre;

• Correctional Centre;

• Courthouse;

• Aged Day Care Centre;

• Senior Citizen's Centre;

• Retirement Village; and • Cemetery/Crematorium.

Data for Woden Valley, Belconnen, Gungahlin and Tuggeranong has been included in the analysis. In addition, given that some facilities are accessed by the population of Weston Creek, a combined Weston Creek / Woden Valley joint district has also been included in the analysis.

6.1.2 Findings

The findings of the district comparison have been expressed in terms of the number of people in the district per facility. Expressed in this way, the findings will be comparable with the Desired Standards of Service (DSS) to be used for benchmarking during later phases on the project.

Findings of the district comparison are included in Table 17 below.





Table 17: District Comparison - Community Facilities

facilityt ype Woden Valley ,Belconnen ,Geingahlin rugOranong Population

per Facility

1 Population per

,Facility

Population Population per per

Facility Facility General Comm paces

Religious Facility figISD 36 2,600 14 3,600 28 3,200

Licensed Club 0 4,300 13 7,100 2 25,500 10 8,900

Community Space gli 11,400 3 30,900 0 0 0.

Library g 34,300 2 46,300 1 51,000 2 1 44,700

Educational

Preschool CI 3,800 18 5,100 7 7,300 16 5,600

Government primary school

V' 4,900 17 5,500 7 7,300 16 5,600

Non-government primary school

V 4,900 5 18,500 3 17,000 4 22,300

Government high school

g 34,300 5 18,500 3 17,000 5 17,900

Non-government high school

4 34,300 2 46,300 0 0 0 0

Government secondary colleges

g 34,300 3 30,900 1 51,000 2 44,700

Non-government secondary colleges

g 34,300 0 0 0 0 1 89,300

Early Childhood School

0 0 1 92,700 1 51,000 1 89,300


g 34,300 1 92,700 1 51,000 6 14,900

Special School il 34,300 1 92,700 0 0 0 0

CIT campuses g 34,300 1 92,700 1 51,000 1 89,300

University 0 0 1 92,700 0 0 0 0

r.'"w"1-lealth Facilities, •

GP Medical Centre 20 a t i r p 8 11,600 3 17,000 6 14,900

Community Health Centre

ci 34,300 3 30,900 1 51,000 1 89,300

Enhanced community health centre

0 0 1 92,700 0 0 0 0

Hospital gl p p a p 1 92,700 0 0 0 0


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F - c — i l i t - y - - - - --Type r------1 Woden Valley' — .

#

........,.[- Gungahlin Tuggeratini

# Population per

L J Facility

# ; Population per

Facility

Population per

Facility

_ . # Population _ per

L Facility

Emergency and Justice Facilities

Police Station 34,300 1 92,700 0 0 1 89,300

Ambulance il 34,300 1 92,700 0 0 1 89,300

Fire and Rescue Station

ci 34,300 2 46,300 0 0 4 22,300

Targeted Facilities Children

Long Day (Child Care) Centre

ijci ia)' 22 4,200 11 4,600 27 3,300

Child and Family Centre

il 34,300 0 0 0 0 1 89,300

r a r g e t t , : l tml i t ie_s - Youngaeople IrrEr ::,.;,5*."-,),C5. q.

Youth Centre ci 34,300 1 92,700 1 51,000 2 44,700

T a r g e t e c g e c 9 ' 1 4 1 - 1 . - 4 1 7 3 r i d , P e o le V I Dis b"11 '

Residential aged care - High Care

i) 34,300 4 23,200 0 0 1 89,300

Residential aged care - Low Care

8,600 4 23,200 0 0 1 89,300

The full results of the district comparison are included in Appendix G.2. The district comparison results suggest overall that:

• The level of provision of community facilities appears generally similar in Belconnen and Tuggeranong across many facility types;

• The level of provision appears currently lower in Gungahlin, which is no doubt related to its more recent development;

• The level of provision in Woden Valley appears generally higher than either Belconnen or Tuggeranong (or therefore Gungahlin);

• Inclusion of the population and facilities located in Weston Creek with the Woden Valley district decreases the overall level of provision slightly relative to Belconnen or Tuggeranong; however the combined Woden Valley/Weston Creek is still better served with most facilities in terms of population per facility than either of the former two areas (or any of the comparatives).

In regard to more specific facility groupings, the analysis shows that:

• Woden Valley/Weston Creek has a relatively broad variety of facilities - at least one facility of each facility type except for early childhood school, university and enhanced community health centre . Belconnen and Tuggeranong also had a variety of facilities, while Gungahlin had less variety, with no facilities in 13 separate categories;

• The level of provision is higher in Woden Valley/Weston Creek than all three comparatives for:





- community spaces; - licensed clubs;

- religious facilities;

- libraries;

- pre-schools;

- primary schools;

- non-government high schools;

- CIT campuses; - special schools;

. . - health facilities, including hospitals, child and family centres and general

medical centres;

- police and fire stations; and

- youth centres. • The level of provision is similar in Woden Valley/Weston Creek to the other

comparatives in:

- long day child care centres; • The level of provision of adult and community education centres is higher in Woden

Valley than Belconnen or Gungahlin, but lower than Tuggeranong, which appears very well supplied;

• The level of provision for emergency services facilities in Woden Valley/Weston Creek is high compared to Belconnen and Tuggeranong for police stations and ambulance stations; however a little lower for fire and rescue facilities when Weston Creek is combined with Woden Valley; and

• There are no facility groupings in which the level of provision in Woden Valley/Weston Creek could be considered low in relation to all comparatives, apart from early childhood schools. There were no early childhood schools in the Woden Valley/Weston Creek area recorded in the district comparison, however in the audit, the Lyons Early Childhood School has been recorded in this category.

In relation to the role in the hierarchy of facilities to neighbouring districts, the district comparison suggests that Woden Valley, with a relatively high level of provision, may be playing a larger/wider role in community facility provision than might be usually be considered for a town centre. This was confirmed in the consultation outcomes, and may be related to its position as a key centre serving the southern sub-region of Canberra, and/or its location at the geographic centre of Canberra.

A more detailed analysis of community facility provision in Woden Town Centre and Mawson Group Centre, including their role in the community facilities hierarchy, will be undertaken in the benchmarking component of the study, however, the above comparison provides an indication of the relative level of provision of community facilities in the Woden Valley district, with additional detail, including for the combined Woden Valley and Weston Creek districts, available in Appendix G.2.

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6.2 Sport and Recreation

6.2.1 Approach

The table in Appendix G.2 summarises the comparison of sport and recreation facility supply across the districts. It is based on data within the COMFIS data base provided by ESSD and the Parks Asset data provided by TAMS. There are some issues between the data sets, however, the parks data is the most up to date and provides a current snapshot of provision between the centres. Please note that the data set for sporting facilities has come from ESSD and has not yet been updated with the changed status of neighbourhood ovals that have been converted to informal use ovals. For comparison across the Town Centres this is not considered an issue. Similarly school facilities are not included due to the complexity of verifying if community use is allowed at individual schools.

6.2.2 Findings

A detailed comparative analysis of sport and recreation facilities is provided in Appendix G.2. Table 18 below is a summary of the results.

Table 18: District Comparison - Sport and Recreation Facilities Facility T y p e W o d e n Valley Bekonnen Gungahlin

Poioulaiion per

Facility

Tuggeranong

'Pepulatio n per

Facility

# 1

,

Population per

Facility

Population ' per Facility

Sports Fields Major Stadiums 2 46,300 3 17,000 0 0

District Playing Fields ,600 12 7,700 1 51,000 12 7,400

Enclosed Ovals 11,4004 6 15,400 7 7,300 2 44,700

Neighbourhood Ovals . ' . .4;SC5F 13 7,100 0 0 10 8,900

Institutional Ovals (unis) . 2 46,300 0 0 1 89,300

Community Recreation Irrigated Park (CRIP)

0 U 0 0 0 0

Informal Use Ovals 2 17200 „.

10 9,300 0 0

Total l i 2,000 , ,

45 2,100 11 4,600 25 3,600

Outdoor Courts and Greens iTennis, Netb;lirECOWIS?'atcrUTT

Regional 134v300 0 0 0 0 0 0

District Complex 34 300: 4 23,200 0 1 89,300

Small Club FacilitiesV2 17;200, 2 46,300 1 51,000 6 14,900 Total'Z-01-0: 15,400 51,000 12,800

„ Squash, Indoor Courts - Basketball Volleyball, Futsal, Indoor tennis, Indoor Cricket Regional complex

_ 46,300 0 0 1 89,300

District complex 1 z• •,,,,,k,...-

34,300 - _

23,200 44,700






Facility Type - W o d e n Valle; . ,

‘B e 1 c on r i e ,n- _ _

G. wig' ahlin _ Tuggeranong _ - # Populatio

n per Facility

# Population per

Facility

Population per

Facility

Population per

Facility

institution 0 1 92,700 0 0 0 0

Total S 34;300 7 13,200 0 0 3 29,800

Aquatic

Major pools and Swim Centres

34,300 2 46,300 0 0 1 89,300

Program Pools 46,300 0 0 2 44,700

Total 34;300•4 23,200 0 0 3 29,800

Other Iriddor -1212131alth Ice skating.

Major Facilities 34,300 0 1 51,000 0

District Facilities 34300 8 11,600 1 51,000 2 44,700

Total 17;200 8 11,600 2 25,500 2 44,700

Other Outdoor - Golf, Equestrian, Archery etc.

Major Facilities ..; 0 0 0

District Facilities 2 1 M =2001 1 92,700 2 25,500 5 17,900

Total 17200 1 92,700 2 25,500 5 17,900

Gmerili Public Spaces [2] (not inc. Regional Parks IND

Town Parks 17,200 1 92,700 1 51,000 1 89,300

District Parks 34,300 4 23,200 1 51,000 4 22,300

Neighbourhood Parks 90 1,000 42 1,200 84 1,100

Community Gardens 3 30,900 2 25,500 4 22,300

Showgrounds in , 0 1 51,000 0

Playgrounds 0 0 0

Total 6 ..JI 98 900 47 1,100 93 1,000

ActivatedMark,Spaces

Destination Youth spaces/ Skate Parks [4]

; , 34 300

,.

1 92,700 1 51,000 2 44,700

Local/ minor -.J i 2 46,300 0 0 5 17,900

Outdoor Exercise and Fitness Sites

0 , .* .4-

0 0 0

Outdoor event spaces MEC 0 0 0

Dog off leash areas (Fenced)

0 1 92,700 2 25,500 1 89,300

Total 4 23,200 3 17,000 8 11,200

Notes: [1] Refer to DS 24 - Sports ground Design, and "Forward Strategy- Future Provision o f ACT government Sportsgrounds in Gungahlin and Molonglo" (July 2011). [2] Refer to DS 14 Urban Open Space (Edl Rev 0).





I T Not mentioned recorded in Parks and City Services provided data- due to whole of region catchment has limited applicability for a comparison across centres. [4] Data sourced from ACTG website http://www.act.gov.au/browse/topics/sport-and-recreationiskateparks 2012 population figures used.

The following points summarise this analysis:

• Sports fields: Woden has a slightly higher rate of provision of field sport facilities than Belconnen with 5 facilities per 10,000 people (Belconnen 4.9/10,000), equivalent to 1

• facility. per 2000 people. Gungahlin has lowest provision with 2.2 facilities per 10,000 people or one facility per 4.600 people. However, three of the facilities in Gungahlin are 'major stadiums';

• Outdoor courts and greens: Woden has the highest rate of provision of 'outdoor courts and greens' (e.g. tennis, netball, bowls, croquet) with 1.2 facilities per 10,000 people, equivalent to 1 facility per 8,600 people. Gungahlin has the lowest with 0.2 facilities per 10,000 people or 1 facility per 51,000 people.

• Indoor courts: Belconnen has the highest rate of provision of indoor courts (e.g. basketball, squash, volleyball, Futsal, indoor tennis, indoor cricket) per head of population with 0.8 facilities per 10,000 people, equivalent to one facility for every 13,200 people. Both Woden and Tuggeranong have 0.3 facilities per 10,000 persons and Gungahlin has the lowest rate of provision with no indoor courts.

• Aquatic facilities: Belconnen has the highest rate of provision of aquatic facilities with 0.4 facilities per 10,000 people, equivalent to one aquatic facility per 23,200 people. Both Woden and Tuggeranong have 0.3 facilities per 10,000 and Gungahlin has the lowest rate of provision with no aquatic facilities.

• Other indoor facilities: Belconnen has the highest rate of provision of 'other indoor facilities' (e.g. martial arts, ice skating) with 0.9 facilities per 10,000 people, equivalent to 1 facility for every 11,600 people. Woden has the second highest with 0.6 facilities per 10,000 and Tuggeranong has the lowest rate of provision with 0.2 facilities per 10,000 people or 1 facility for every 44,700 people.

• Other outdoor facilities: Woden has the highest rates of provision of 'other outdoor facilities' (e.g. golf, equestrian, archery) with 0.6 facilities per 10,000 people, equivalent to 1 facility for every 17,200 people, followed closely by Tuggeranong with 0.6 facilities per 10,000 people and 1 facility for every 17,900 people. Belconnen has the lowest rate of facility with 0.1 facilities per 10,000 people or 1 facility per 92,700 people.

• Parks and Public Spaces: Woden has the highest rate of provision of number of parks and public spaces (not including Regional Parks) with 19.5 parks per 10,000 people, equivalent to 1 park per 500 people. Gungahlin has the lowest rate of provision with 9.2 parks per 10,000 people, or 1 park per 1,100 people. However when comparing total area of park provided the picture changes with Tuggeranong have the highest rate of provision at 22 Ha/ 10,000 ( or 2.2 Ha/ 1000), Belconnen is second highest (2.1 Ha/1000) and Woden third (2.01 Ha/1000). Gungahlin is significantly lacking with only 0.7 Ha/ 1000.


Strategic Leisure Group,




7 Next Phases

As stated in Section 1, the primary purpose of this narrative report is to provide an update on the tasks undertaken to date; a description of the preliminary findings from the analysis; and a copy of the CSR facility audit for ESDD review.

As per the project plan provided in Appendix A, the next phase of the project (Phase 4: Socio-Economic and Projected Demand Scenarios) involves: .

• An historical and current demographic profile for the primary study areas; • Forecasts of future demographic characteristics for the primary study areas; • Confirmation of the Desired Standards of Service to be applied in the WAM CSR Study;

and

• Application of the DSS to the primary study areas.

Through previous discussions with ESDD, the consultant team has confirmed that the following documentation will be provided for ESDD consideration prior to issuing the above deliverables in mid October:

• The methodology to be used for forecasting future demographic characteristics (refer to email dated 30.09.12); and

• Draft Desired Standards of Services.

In addition to the above, the case study analysis (Phase 2 of the project plan) will be provided to ESDD on 8 October 2012 for the case study analysis.





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