Hanging Rock sporting complex upgrade (field 3)
Project: Providing a multi-sport field and facilities
Timeframe: March 2024 to December 2025
Status: In progress
Cost and funding: $2,587,400 comprising:
- $2,387,400 NSW Office of Sport Funding as part of a Multi-Sport Community Facility Fund
- $200,000 Eurobodalla Council funding
Page last updated: November 2024
Project details
We are working to:
- demolish the existing sporting amenities located in the centre of the fields
- build a new multi-sport field
- build new amenities, located towards the northern perimeter of the complex
- provide four unisex changerooms to better cater for multi-sport competition, as well as women and girls in sport
- establish athletics features such as long jump pit and discus cage
- formalise parking and access to the fields
- upgrade the playing field and sporting infrastructure, including irrigation and new surfacing
- design and install new field lighting, including new light poles and energy efficient LED sports field lighting, and a user-friendly control system
- build new spectator seating
- install upgraded power provisions and outlets to support event and emergency evacuation use.
Benefits to the community:
- more sport codes will be able to use field 3 (eg AFL, cricket, athletics)
- improved safety, lighting, and parking access
- improved spectator seating with inclusive access
- four unisex changerooms will allow for greater diversity of teams
- improved reliability for events and if the complex is used as an evacuation centre in future.
The multisport upgrade will help support and grow formal sport at this popular Batemans Bay facility.
By accommodating multiple sporting codes to use this open space, and improving amenities for players, spectators, community groups, and events, we aim to promote a vibrant and inclusive environment for physical activity.
Project updates
November 2024
- We've working on the foundations for the new amenities block in preparation for the slab.
- We are levelling the playing field and installing the irrigation system.
September 2024
- We lined up various specialised contractors to handle each part of the project.
- We put up a temporary fence around the field and demolished the old toilet block, making way for the planned upgrades.
March 2024:
- We prepared and shared concept designs for the field, amenities and lighting with stakeholder groups.
- We completed land and environmental surveys, and soil testing.
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More information
For more information, please contact Council's Recreation Services, Project Manager, Chris Teague:
- T: 02 4474 1096
- E: Chris Teague