Cockburn Council has approved the $15m redevelopment of Beale Park in Spearwood, one of the City’s major soccer clubroom and playing facilities.

The decision was made at the City of Cockburn’s 13 May Ordinary Council meeting and follows significant community consultation and planning to meet the needs of a growing community and Cockburn City Soccer Club, the facility’s main tenant since 1998.

The decision will enable the delivery of a new centrally located clubroom with six accessible unisex changerooms plus public toilets, seven soccer pitches, new sports floodlighting, and updated carparking.

Other elements of the project will include a spectator viewing and seating area, barbecue area and playground with shade structures, public artwork, the retention of all but six trees and the addition of 35 new trees to the confirmed Black Cockatoo roosting site.

At its May Ordinary Council meeting on 13 May, the Council also approved an $11.45m tender for Shelford Constructions to begin work on the two-stage project.

Construction will begin later this year with completion planned in time for the 2027 soccer season.