We provide over 78% of sportsfields for the northern beaches encompassing a regional sporting facility Brookvale Oval, 127 individual sports fields, 88 netball and basketball courts and associated infrastructure. Asset management plans guide the way we plan and maintain these assets so they are safe, accessible and deliver appropriate level of service to the users.
A breakdown of our expenditure over the next four years and a description of the categories of expenditure are below:
- Sportsfield renewal – improving the playing surface by rebuilding and levelling the field
- Irrigation and drainage improvements – new or renewing existing irrigation, drainage and environmental safeguards
- Floodlighting improvements – upgrading lighting to Australian Standards for competition
- Buildings renewals – upgrading public toilets, sporting clubs, change rooms and storage sheds
- Sporting group capital grants – matching grants for sporting clubs to improve sporting infrastructure
- Sportsfield maintenance - fertilising, minor top dressing and returfing, mowing, field changeover from winter and summer seasons (goalposts and linemarking), inspection and minor repairs of assets and turf cricket wicket maintenance
- Floodlighting maintenance - inspection and maintenance of flood lighting
- Sportsfield renovation - treatment to alleviate compaction, aeration of soil and major top dressing and returfing