❓ The Minister for Sport and Recreation provides an update on the State Netball Centre construction at the Matthews netball precinct, highlighting its benefits for netball in WA, including facilities for West Coast Fever and Netball WA.
AnsweredQoN 492Legislative Assembly
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STATE
NETBALL CENTRE
492. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Minister for Sport
and Recreation:
I understand construction has commenced on the new state
netball centre at the Matthews netball precinct. Can the minister please give
an update on the project, and advise how this facility will benefit netball in
Western Australia?
NETBALL CENTRE
492. Mr S.K. L'ESTRANGE to the Minister for Sport
and Recreation:
I understand construction has commenced on the new state
netball centre at the Matthews netball precinct. Can the minister please give
an update on the project, and advise how this facility will benefit netball in
Western Australia?
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I thank the member for Churchlands for the question, and for
his support of the project. Of course, the state netball centre is in the
member's electorate and I know he has been a strong supporter of it.
Several members interjected.
Mr T.K. WALDRON :
He is a very hard worker!
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Members!
Mr T.K. WALDRON :
Netball is a massive sport in this state and it is a fantastic sport. There are
more than 70 associations, 1 200 clubs and 40 000 registered players. That is
registered players, but there is a lot of midweek netball, social netball and
mixed netball—it is fantastic! Having four daughters, I have watched
heaps of netball over the years and seen its great benefits. This state netball
facility has been much needed for years and has been overlooked and overlooked,
but we made the decision to go ahead because we saw the great need to support
this important sport with this great facility.
Balcatta-based PS Structures has been awarded the contract to
build the new facility. It is an $18.8 million contract for the state netball
centre, and we turned the first sod in August. The facility will include four indoor
courts, nine competitor change room facilities, and, really importantly,
facilities for West Coast Fever, which will certainly give our premier netball
team a great boost. There will be spectator seating for 1 050, so state netball
can utilise that centre. There will be offices for Netball WA, which will
centralise and give netball in this state a huge focus. There will also be
kiosk facilities et cetera.
Once again, the planning for the facility has been extremely
thorough, and we expect completion in the third quarter of 2014. Member for
Churchlands, I am also delighted that as part of this whole development, the
Matthews netball precinct is being developed along with the Town of Cambridge,
with new courts and new buildings for the Perth Netball Association, so it will
also have a new building out there at Matthews. There will also be road parking
and traffic upgrades, which are greatly needed in that area. We have had great
support from the Town of Cambridge and Netball WA, and this is a great
opportunity for us to continue to grow netball. I thank the Department of Sport
and Recreation and VenuesWest, which have had a huge role in this whole
project. Once again we will deliver it, as we have with all the sporting
facilities in the past four or five years, on time and on budget.
his support of the project. Of course, the state netball centre is in the
member's electorate and I know he has been a strong supporter of it.
Several members interjected.
Mr T.K. WALDRON :
He is a very hard worker!
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Members!
Mr T.K. WALDRON :
Netball is a massive sport in this state and it is a fantastic sport. There are
more than 70 associations, 1 200 clubs and 40 000 registered players. That is
registered players, but there is a lot of midweek netball, social netball and
mixed netball—it is fantastic! Having four daughters, I have watched
heaps of netball over the years and seen its great benefits. This state netball
facility has been much needed for years and has been overlooked and overlooked,
but we made the decision to go ahead because we saw the great need to support
this important sport with this great facility.
Balcatta-based PS Structures has been awarded the contract to
build the new facility. It is an $18.8 million contract for the state netball
centre, and we turned the first sod in August. The facility will include four indoor
courts, nine competitor change room facilities, and, really importantly,
facilities for West Coast Fever, which will certainly give our premier netball
team a great boost. There will be spectator seating for 1 050, so state netball
can utilise that centre. There will be offices for Netball WA, which will
centralise and give netball in this state a huge focus. There will also be
kiosk facilities et cetera.
Once again, the planning for the facility has been extremely
thorough, and we expect completion in the third quarter of 2014. Member for
Churchlands, I am also delighted that as part of this whole development, the
Matthews netball precinct is being developed along with the Town of Cambridge,
with new courts and new buildings for the Perth Netball Association, so it will
also have a new building out there at Matthews. There will also be road parking
and traffic upgrades, which are greatly needed in that area. We have had great
support from the Town of Cambridge and Netball WA, and this is a great
opportunity for us to continue to grow netball. I thank the Department of Sport
and Recreation and VenuesWest, which have had a huge role in this whole
project. Once again we will deliver it, as we have with all the sporting
facilities in the past four or five years, on time and on budget.
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