Background

Beale Park is one of Cockburn's major soccer facilities. The park is classified as an active sporting reserve, servicing the community's formal and informal recreation needs.

The City commenced planning in 2018 for a $9 million upgrade of Beale Park to meet user needs. Community feedback was sought from site users and residents to inform a design for the upgrades.

What we heard so far

Priorities include:

• Replacement club-house
• Improved drainage
• Sports standard lighting
• More playing space
• More off-road parking
• New nature themed playground with fencing
• Retention of the existing playground in the north east
  
• Nature themed artwork
  
• Drinking fountains
• Shade
• Barbeques and picnic tables
• Minimising impact on trees and cockatoo roosting habitat

A draft design has been prepared considering tree surveys, a Carnaby's Black Cockatoo habitat assessment and feedback from site users and local residents.

The City's external environmental consultants are in the process of preparing a subsequent Black Cockatoo Significance Assessment based on the revised site plan which will help to determine further steps/actions and the need to refer our proposal to the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment (ADAWE) under the EPBC Act for feedback.

The City is also inviting community feedback on the updated draft design until 8 December 2021. Community feedback will be considered, alongside recommendations from our environmental consultants and ADAWE, project commitments and constraints, to inform the final design outcomes.

More information

	View the draft design Online: View the Site Plan - Concept and Clubrooms floorplan. Documents can be found in the Document Library. Hard copy: Available at City of Cockburn Administration (9 Coleville Crescent, Spearwood) In-person: Visit us at a drop-in session
	Community drop-in sessions Visit us to see the draft design and chat to a project team member. Where: Beale Park, Spearwood (outside of clubrooms overlooking soccer pitches) When: Wednesday 24 November 2021 from 4.30pm to 6.30pm.