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What are the opportunities for a basketball pad at Spearwood Skate Park?

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Consultation has concluded


The City of Cockburn is exploring the installation of a basketball pad and hoop at Spearwood Skate Park located at the Southeast corner of Market Garden Park. We want to hear your views on the opportunities, challenges and solutions to help inform our next steps. 

Background

The City has received community requests to install a basketball pad, around the Market Garden Park. We have reviewed possible locations in the area, and due to its size, ground conditions and existing infrastructure, the Spearwood Skate Park is the only feasible location in the area. Currently, the skate park has a skate track,


The City of Cockburn is exploring the installation of a basketball pad and hoop at Spearwood Skate Park located at the Southeast corner of Market Garden Park. We want to hear your views on the opportunities, challenges and solutions to help inform our next steps. 

Background

The City has received community requests to install a basketball pad, around the Market Garden Park. We have reviewed possible locations in the area, and due to its size, ground conditions and existing infrastructure, the Spearwood Skate Park is the only feasible location in the area. Currently, the skate park has a skate track, pump track, car park, playground, and picnic setting. 

Pending the community's feedback, the City has the capacity to install a basketball pad, about 8m x 8m in size (refer to similar examples in the photo library). We have no plans to change any existing infrastructure of the skate park - the basketball pad would only be added as an additional feature. 

Next steps

At this stage, we have not decided anything. Community feedback will help inform the next steps.

Should the project proceed the positioning and design of the basketball pad would be guided by community feedback, as well as budget and site constraints.

How to participate

Feedback closes 4pm Friday, 1 March 2024
NullFeedback form
  • Fill out the online feedback form below or
  • Collect a hard copy of feedback from Spearwood Library
Write to us
NullCommunity drop-in session
  • When – visit anytime between 3.30-6pm on Wednesday 28 February 2024
  • Where – Spearwood Skate Park (469 Rockingham Road, Spearwood)*

*If there is extreme weather, we will move the pop-up to Spearwood Library. 

Consultation has concluded

  • Project update – April 2024

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    Basketball Pad coming to Spearwood Skate Park

    Considering the community feedback, budget, and feasible space in the area, the City will install an 8m x 8m basketball pad with a sound-mitigating backboard at the Spearwood Skate Park.

    What we heard

    We heard from 23 people, and 16 people came to our community drop-in session. Thank you to everyone who had their say.

    Key feedback included:

    • Benefits -
      1. More outdoor recreation opportunities (especially for young people in the area).
    • Challenges -
      1. Noise impacting local neighbours
      2. Safety from balls going astray -
        • Close to a main road
        • Close to bushland
        • Impact of existing park activities
    • When asked what design considerations/solutions the City could consider, the following suggestions were noted:
      1. Noise:
        • Use noise-mitigating materials
        • Install the basketball pad furthest away from residents' housing
        • Use existing trees and infrastructure as sound barriers
      2. Stray balls:
        • Installing the pad in the middle/grassed area

    See our community engagement summary in the Document Library for further details.

    Design considerations

    The City will install an ‘infinet hoop’ with a noise mitigating backboard secured to an 8m x 8m painted concrete pad.

    We will install the pad in the central grass area to maximise distance from houses, minimise disruption to current activities and the potential for balls going astray.

    Next steps

    Consultation has concluded. Thank you to everyone who had their say.

    The City is starting the procurement processes and aims to install the basketball pad in the second quarter of 2024. Construction is expected to take up to five weeks.

    Some parts of the car park may be impacted during installation, while the remainder of Spearwood Skate Park will remain unaffected.

    More information

    For more information, contact the City's Landscape and Coastal project at 08 9411 344 or email [email protected]