Sportsground_Management_Strategy - Summary

Consultation

Gosford and Wyong Council undertook an extensive consultation process which involved:

• Presentations to Gosford City Council and Wyong Shire Council.
      
• LGA Sporting Clubs & Associations meetings – 3 August 2006
      
• Follow up Sporting Associations meeting – 16 August 2006
      
• Public School Principals forum (Primary & Secondary) presentation – 21 August 2006
      
• Follow up meeting with Primary schools – scheduled 10 November 2006
      
• Mail out to independent schools
      
• Draft SMS forwarded to Sport Associations and Referees Associations for comment.
      
• Draft SMS presented at Gosford City Sports Council meeting 6 October 2006
      
• Consultation with NSW Statewide Mutual
      
• Strategy / Policy meeting Wyong Shire Council and Gosford City Council

Implementation Strategy

The implementation of the SMS involved a number of initiatives:

• Sportsground Evaluation Sheet (Hardness, Turf Cover, Instability & Unevenness) used by Council maintenance staff to measure ground suitability for training and competition. Clegg Hammer is a tool developed to give specific ground hardness measurements.
      
• User Group Communication Strategy outlines how the Sportsground Evaluation Sheet and reduction strategies will be communicated to sportsground users.
      
• Information sheet “Reducing Wear and Maintaining Playing Fields” to be provided to all sportsground users to help reduce wear on playing field surfaces
      
• List of suitable alternative training fields to reduce load on sportsgrounds
      
• Irrigation audit to maximise any alternate water sources made available to water grounds
      
• Reviewed mow lengths to reduce wear
      
• Continued alternative water and water saving investigations

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See the full sportsground management strategy (PDF - 181 KB)
Read a list of alternative sportsgrounds in the north of Wyong Shire
See alternatives in the south

Assessibility
At present, the full sportsground management strategy is provided in Portable Document Format (PDF) format.You need to download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader to read (PDF) documents. If you encounter difficulties accessing PDF documents, please inform Wyong Shire Council by telephone on (02) 4350 5555, by mail at PO Box 20 Wyong 2259, or by e-mail.

Page last updated: 28/02/2007