Healthy bodies, happy minds, connected communities

Invest in sports facilities

Address increasing demand for sports facilities

Support girls and women to play sport

Address health and wellbeing challenges

Provide youth with opportunities to be active

Brimbank Council is advocating for:

• More funding to accommodate girls and women in sports (immediate need)

• Financial support to address high demand for sports

facilities by the Brimbank community (immediate need)

• Investment in the development of a regional multi-sport

facility in Brimbank

Current state of play:

1 Community Profile, 2011

2 Eime, RM., Harvey, JT., Charity, MJ., Casey, MM. Physical activity, Sport and Health in the City of Brimbank – A report to Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy. Federation University

Australia, Victoria University, 2014.

3 Eime, RM., Harvey, JT., Charity, MJ., Casey, MM. Physical activity, Sport and Health in the City of Brimbank – A report to Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy. Federation University

Australia, Victoria University, 2014.

Brimbank Council owns and allocates

49 sports pavilions, 79 playing fields,

pitches, diamonds, bocce pistes and

greens, 7 indoor courts and

w64 outdoor tennis courts.

60+ sports clubs and associations.

of Brimbank residents are reported

to be participating in organised sport

(Melbourne average of almost 50%).

Brimbank has well below the state

average sports facilities to population

additional soccer facilities will be

needed by 2027 to meet community

For seven major association sports

in Victoria (AFL, Basketball. Cricket,

Field Hockey, Lawn Bowls, Netball and

Tennis) Brimbank only has 3.1 facilities

per 10,000 persons, compared to 5.7

per 10,000 persons for Melbourne.

In spite of being at the centre of the fastest

growing region in Australia, Brimbank is not

getting the levels of investment in infrastructure

from state and federal government required

to address the needs of the community, health

and wellbeing challenges, and to bridge the

disadvantage gap.

Since 2012, Brimbank City Council has invested

more than $51 million on maintaining, renewing

and upgrading sports pavilions and outdoor

However, further significant investment and targeted

funding is needed to upgrade sports pavilions

and sports surfaces to ensure facilities meet the

needs of all user groups, and to create a regional

multi-sport facility.

The increase in girls and women participating in a

number of sports is adding further pressure to demand

for sporting opportunities.

There is an unmet need for active recreation services

and facilities, including cricket, football, netball, soccer

This growth is expected to continue with the

establishment of elite level national competitions

and more women’s sport being televised.

Help us help more girls and women

play sport (immediate need)

Council has been proactive in undertaking universal

design audits of sporting facilities to identify

infrastructure needs to ensure welcoming and inclusive

facilities are being planned and provided.

More than 3200 Brimbank

girls and women play

organised sport. This number

continues to grow.

Developing a regional multi-sport facility

A regional facility will be required to accommodate

local community sporting needs in the future.

• It would give sports clubs and groups currently using

single field sites the opportunity to further develop

by moving to a larger, regional venue with a range

of sporting facilities.

• This would free up the single fields for groups that

currently do not have access to sports facilities and

allow growth in casual sport participation.

• Such a facility would accommodate a range of

sports at the one location and provide for various

levels of competition.

• A regional multi-sports facility could accommodate

a ‘premier league’ standard soccer venue. This

venue could be used for competition by the clubs

in Brimbank that participate in the premier league

Council will be looking for State and Federal investment

in such a facility.

Investing in upgrades to sports pavilions

and sports grounds (immediate need)

While Council is already investing heavily in upgrading

existing sports pavilions and playing surfaces, a

significant amount more is needed to ensure all

existing facilities are suitable for use and are being

used to full potential.

Further investment and targeted funding is needed to

upgrade sports pavilions and sports surfaces to ensure

facilities meet the needs of all user groups.

• Upgrading of sports pavilions would help to

optimise the use of associated sporting fields.

• A condition audit of Brimbank’s sports pavilions

identified that many are generally run down with

some reaching the end of their useful life.

• Amenities at many facilities are unsuitable

for girls and women.

• An audit of all outdoor sporting surfaces in

Brimbank found they had sub-standard lighting to

accommodate training and lacked basic supporting

• Many existing sportsgrounds are without any

supporting infrastructure such as change rooms and

pavilions, or with very poor standard change room

facilities not suitable for supporting girls and women

or junior participation.

Health and wellbeing

• 3rd most populated municipality in the

western region (207,000+ residents).

• 2nd most socio-economically disadvantaged

municipality in Greater Melbourne and 3rd

most disadvantaged in Victoria.

• Ranked second highest for child development

vulnerability and physiological distress.

• Type 2 Diabetes is twice as prevalent in

Brimbank as it is in Melbourne and Australia.

• Culturally diverse.

Brimbank City Council

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Brimbank City Council

info@brimbank.vic.gov.au

PO Box 70, Sunshine, VIC 3020

Hearing or speech impaired?

www.relayservice.gov.au

Find us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

www.facebook.com/brimbankcouncil

www.twitter.com/brimbankcouncil

www.youtube.com/brimbankcitycouncil

Brimbank Language Link

www.brimbank.vic.gov.au

Local call costs apply

Brimbank Council need significant

• To accommodate girls and women in sports

• To address high demand for sports facilities by the

Brimbank community

• To help reduce health and wellbeing challenges facing

the Brimbank community

• In a regional multi-sport facility in Brimbank