Your views: on upgrading park lands sports clubs
Today, readers comment on Adelaide City Council’s reluctance to help fund ageing community club facilities on park lands.
Commenting on the story: ‘Extreme disappointment’: Pushback to council’s sport upgrade snub
The Adelaide Lutheran Sports Club is an outstanding community member who live up to their tag of “the country club in the city”.
With three senior football and 14 senior netball teams (plus junior teams, cricket etc), they literally draw in by word of mouth young folk from all over SA who have ventured to Adelaide for work or study. They are provided with a safe, caring culture with role model leadership under which they enhance their sporting and social opportunities as well as grow into contributing community citizens.
The club has well and truly outgrown the modestly small and dilapidated facilities. The upgrade plan is only nominally larger in terms of ground footprint. Moving from one to two storeys will result in adequate change rooms for all teams as well as a safe, separate and satisfactory social area. It is a very modest development in an area many drive past but would hardly notice.
Talking to members of other clubs, they generally receive strong support from metropolitan councils such as Marion and Playford. It is a shame the Adelaide City Council (ACC) struggle to follow suit. Well, here is their opportunity.
It is pleasing to have (as I understand it) State Government support. Indeed, the Premier Peter Malinauskas has played football here and would appreciate how run down the facilities are.
The Adelaide Lutheran Sports Club makes a fine contribution to not only community physical health but also mental health. It is welcoming, inclusive and accessible to all (meets the ACC “Thriving Communities” charter ) and adds to a dynamic city culture and economy in an environmentally responsible way.
I encourage the ACC to meet with the Adelaide Lutheran Sports Club , other relevant clubs and associations plus the State Government to work out a solution and establish a facility for the future and for the people and for the betterment of our city. – Peter Robinson
I support the council decision. There are enough clubs involved with the facility to get their own funds together. Adelaide city ratepayers should not have to ‘foot’ such an expense for a facility which serves mostly people residing outside of the council’s area. – Leonard Payne
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Good on you Jane Lomax-Smith for objecting to the development in the park lands.
The questions surely should be either: Should any sports buildings on the southern park lands be replaced, or should the sporting buildings and grounds in the southern park lands be phased out? – Di Sullivan
Exactly who uses these sports facilities? For instance, are they used more or less equally by males and females? If the groups seeking the upgrade are actually ensuring the facilities are used by a wide range of community members, maybe that would be an argument in their favour. – Nathalie Wooldridge
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