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After Hours Recreation Hub

Recreation Hub: Covered Basketball Court, Table Tennis, Oval, Playground, Nature.

Project details

Suggested by: Patricia

Project partner: Brunswick East Primary School

Budget

$200,000.00

Votes

317 votes received

This project did not receive enough votes to be successful.

Brunswick East Primary School wants to open its gates to the wider community outside school hours. While the school has a small oval, playground, nature play, a basketball court, tennis walls, down ball courts and table tennis tables, many of the facilities require renewal to improve safety and usage. To do this we need to resurface the basketball court, cover the basketball court (for lighting and weather protection), improve the oval and update the play equipment.

Moreland City Council is supportive of this idea and has offered a Joint User Agreement which will assist with changes to fencing and maintenance.

The area of Brunswick has a growing youth population (Forecast ID 2018) and a shortage of open green space and recreational facilities (Moreland Council 2017 Park Close to Home Framework). The all-weather cover and lighting on the basketball court will provide a needed addition to the infrastructure of the area. Also, the fenced nature of the grounds means that young children are kept safe.

There are several major apartment developments under way in the Brunswick East area. These developments will increase the provision of outdoor recreational outdoor spaces for young people.

Project details

Suggested by: Patricia

Project partner: Brunswick East Primary School

Budget

$200,000.00

Votes

317 votes received

This project did not receive enough votes to be successful.

Comments

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Kargyle

16 Sep 2018

This is exactly what Brunswick East Primary needs for it's growing student population and for a growing local community of young families and children. The SunSmart aspect of this project is really important too.

rbewing2@gmail.com

16 Sep 2018

As school and Ministerial land is expected to be leveraged for ever increasing and collaborative community needs, ensuring that school facilities can capably provide for those needs and the valuable relationships and utility they support is essential. Projects like these seem like simple mono purposed solutions, but in fact they present multi-purposed opportunities for greater utilisation by the whole community, let alone the school. It is a small investment that will derive great social capital returns.

chrisguest

13 Sep 2018

With ever increasing population densities in Brunswick East we need more community access to the existing infrastructure. This is a great idea.

e.regnans

12 Sep 2018

play on

AngelaM

11 Sep 2018

Go BEPS! Good luck with this great project :)

katbat

11 Sep 2018

Can't wait to see the school grow with its community...we will be playing for sure!

Jomatt

11 Sep 2018

This would be so beneficial to our community- let’s do it

jlillibridge

11 Sep 2018

Great!

siska

11 Sep 2018

Obvious that the current layground facilitities need upgrading to this school

ewalker

08 Sep 2018

Wonderful idea!

DLO

04 Sep 2018

Fantastic!

JRodwell

04 Sep 2018

Really needed!

Old Man

03 Sep 2018

Bonza

Jack Lucas

01 Sep 2018

Ace idea!

Nyall

31 Aug 2018

Please support!

Bridg

28 Aug 2018

This would make a lot of little people very very happy :)

sharonlaur

27 Aug 2018

Great to see schools willing to maximize their resources for community use after hours. It just makes sense

Slc

22 Aug 2018

Great for school kids and the wider community !

Cat Nani

22 Aug 2018

Great Project 👍

cookiecat

22 Aug 2018

Yes please! Opening up Brunswick East PS to the wider community is such a fantastic idea, the school and the community will both benefit so much from this initiative. There aren't many sunsmart places to do sports in the area so this will be great for older kids, and younger kids will love nature play in the schoolgrounds.

Hrabenda

18 Aug 2018

Yes please. super idea. W
Is much needed for this school and its children and local residents.

LizMa

16 Aug 2018

Awesome idea to open up the school as at the moment it is off limits to the local community after hours due to the high fences and locked gates. The revived basketball court, play area and oval would be magnificent both for the school and the wider community.

KlairBayley

16 Aug 2018

Fantastic project that will benefit not only the school but foster the connections with the local community

NatVom

15 Aug 2018

Makes a lot of sense! Great idea.

rob atkinson

15 Aug 2018

I support this project