Draft Sport and Recreation Strategy 2013/23

We would like to invite you to provide comment on the findings of the Draft Strategy and the more than 120 Actions indentified in the Implementation Plan. Simply complete the survey, add any other ideas you have to the discussion forum, ask our project team a question if you require more information or email us.

You can view the Draft Strategy and Implementation Plan from the online document library or printed copies are provided for reading in the City of Burnside Library.

Outcomes of the consultation will be incorporated as appropriate into the Draft Strategy and reported back to Council in November 2013.

Overall, the City of Burnside appears to be meeting the expectations of its community with regard to sport and recreation activity and facility provision.

The results of recent community consultation surveys suggest our community is not looking for significant investment in numerous expensive, multi-use indoor facilities or a radical relocation of where opportunities are provided in the City. Many residents indicated that they just want to be able to enjoy going to a safe and pleasant park.

The existing asset infrastructure in many instances needs to be upgraded to a fit-for-purpose standard, affordable, sustainable and safe, as well as depreciated and maintained to agreed standards

The Council have prepared a Draft Sport and Recreation Strategy to allow Council to plan for future service provision for sport and recreation programs and facilities in the City. The Strategy has the potential to impact many members of our community and users of our sport and recreation facilities.

Council have done a review of the activities that our residents participate in and asked 600 residents from primary school, secondary school and adults what activities they would like to do in Burnside in the future. This information combined with the annual community survey results and a situation analysis has resulted in gaps being identified and opportunities developed to improve our sport and recreation service delivery to our community.

For more information please contact City of Burnsides’ Principal Strategy Officer, Leonie Scriven at lscriven@burnside.sa.gov.au