Draft Recreation and Sport Strategy

*** UPDATE 2 August 2022 ***

The City of Burnside is committed to providing recreational and sporting facilities and programs that support and encourage an active, healthy community. Council acknowledges that participation in community sport and recreation activities is fundamental to our residents’ social wellbeing, and not only provides enjoyment but produces health, physical, mental, social and economic benefits for our community. 

The Burnside 2030 Strategic Community Plan outlines several key visions for recreation and sport across the City:

•    Facilities, services and programs that meet our community’s needs.

•    Resilience, wellbeing and recreation.

•    Flexible, fit-for-purpose facilities and places.

The Recreation and Sport Strategy 2022-2026 provides a blueprint for Council’s contribution to the community’s future recreation and sport pursuits. It ensures that the City of Burnside can meet the minimum needs of our growing community in a socially, environmentally and financially sustainable and responsible manner.

The scope of the strategy is limited to sports and “physically active recreation.” Non-physical or social recreation pursuits are excluded from the scope of this strategy as they are captured by other strategies.

As guided by community feedback, the Strategy is organised into three key goals including partnerships, facilities and participation. From this, a total of 10 strategic priorities have been created that will be used to inform a future Action Plan, outlining key projects and programs to be delivered over the term of Council. The Action Plan will shape future funding opportunities that will be delivered through Council’s Annual Business Plan and Budget process. The final strategy can be found in the Document Library.

*** UPDATE 27 June 2022 ***

The draft Recreation and Sport Strategy was endorsed by Council on Thursday 16 June 2022.

BACKGROUND

The City of Burnside has prepared the draft Recreation and Sport Strategy and invites your feedback.

The draft Recreation and Sport Strategy seeks to help create recreational and sport facilities and programs that support and encourage an active, healthy community.

The draft strategy has been developed considering the emerging demographic and planning trends of our City, community feedback and the Burnside 2030 Strategic Plan.

Above: draft Recreation and Sport Strategy. View a larger version in the document library at the right of the screen.

The draft strategy includes a series of goals and priorities Council will work towards. The priorities provide guidance on where Council should focus its efforts to deliver the best value for the community with the resources it has. The priorities do not aim to capture every single service that Council delivers. Council will continue to deliver usual services even if not listed.