Sports clubs across the City of Melbourne are cramming onto a diminishing number of sports grounds in the battle for green space for a booming population.
Sports clubs across the City of Melbourne are cramming onto a diminishing number of sports grounds in the battle for green space amid a booming population.
However, the City of Melbourne has warned of a “significant reduction” in the number of outdoor sports grounds across the municipality since 1986, with some sports grounds converted for other park uses, like stormwater detention, while others have been removed to facilitate the redevelopment of the Royal Children’s Hospital and to create grasslands.
The council has identified a shortfall of 16 Australian rules ovals, two bowling greens, 12 cricket ovals, 16 outdoor netball courts, 14 soccer pitches and 10 tennis courts across the municipality. “If 100 years ago, people said, we’re going to build a massive suburb that provide no footy grounds, people would have laughed them out of town,” he said. “Why is that OK to do now? It’s just called good planning, right?”
Jones said the open space in the park needed to be protected but the City of Melbourne had progressively taken out sport fields from Royal Park to a degree never proposed by the master plan.
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