Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy (CIS)

What is Community Infrastructure? 

Community infrastructure includes the buildings and spaces that provide services, activities and opportunities to support individuals, families and groups to meet their social needs and provide places to improve overall health and wellbeing.

Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy 

This survey relates to the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy as a whole, not the individual Types. If you would like to provide comments on the individual Types please complete the survey designed for the Type that interests you. 

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is Action Sport? 

Action Sports Infrastructure primarily includes facilities for skateboarding, BMX biking, and scooter riding, as well as infrastructure for mountain biking. While parkour elements, a physical discipline which involves moving through obstacles and environments using a combination of running, jumping, climbing, swinging, and vaulting, are taken into consideration, their inclusion is dependent on community demand and are therefore considered secondary. 

What to do now: 

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and The Action Sports Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is Athletics Infrastructure? 

The sport of athletics is made up of a variety of events comprising running (sprints, middle distances, cross country etc.), jumping (high jump, long jump and triple jump), throwing (shot put, javelin, discus etc.) and walking. Athletics primarily takes place annually in the summer months, between October and March. Athletics facilities for track and field activities typically include a 400 metre track for running events and space for field events (throwing and jumps). There is no formal equipment utilised for cross country events. As a code, it has a large amount of heavy, cumbersome sporting equipment and Clubs require adequately sized and easily accessible storage for this equipment.

What to do: 

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Athletics Infrastructure Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is a Public Library? 

Public libraries are built community facilities that provide access to a range of physical and digital resources and services, including book collections, public computers, learning programs, and meeting spaces.

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and Public Libraries Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What are Scouts and Guides? 

Scouts, Girl Guides, and similar groups (such as Navy Cadets), are youth organisations with similar goals. They aim to help young people develop important life skills, values, and social connections that enable them to make a positive impact on their community.

What to do: 

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Scouts and Guide Facilities Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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Community halls and centres are multi-purpose facilities hired to community, commercial and family groups. They provide a variety of activities and services, such as community meetings, social gatherings, celebrations, performances, exhibitions, sports events, youth activities and educational classes.

What to do: 

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Community Halls Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What are Active Sports Facilities and Reserves? 

Sports facilities support the use of active sports reserves. There are many sporting codes represented across the City, with differing requirements. This document aims to give clear guidance when considering sports clubs and groups, planning renewal, upgrades or construction of new facilities across the City. Sports facilities include the provision of amenities which are integral to club operations, such as changerooms, showers, toilets, storage and social spaces.

What to do: 

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Active Sports Facilities and Reserves Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is Action Sport? 

Indoor sport and recreation centres are facilities designed to cater for individual and group physical activities that take place indoors. These facilities provide a safe, all year round environment for a range of activities, such as team competitions and training, individual sport and recreational pursuits, play and fitness activities, and casual hire. Indoor sport and recreation centres usually contain indoor sports courts, typically used for structured sports, such as basketball, netball, volleyball, indoor hockey, soccer, badminton, as well as unstructured recreational sports booked casually (e.g. casual basketball). These facilities may also include supporting amenities, such as club and community spaces, gyms, changerooms, toilets, canteens, and spectator areas. 

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Indoor Sports and Recreation Centres Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is a Men's Shed? 

Men’s Sheds (also known as Community Sheds) are community organisations or spaces where people, typically older men, can come together to engage in various activities, socialise and pursue hobbies and interests. Men’s Sheds are often created as a response to social isolation and loneliness, often experience.

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Men's Shed Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is Sports Lighting Infrastructure? 

The provision of quality sports lighting is integral when planning sport and recreational pursuits on City parks and reserves. Community sports lighting infrastructure allows reserves to be utilised safely for extended periods of time for training, match play and for recreational pursuits outside of the structured sporting environment. The typical provision includes four floodlight poles per playing field. Sports lighting has improved considerably over the last decade, with technology improving rapidly. These advancements, coupled with reviewed Australian Standards, has enabled better lighting with improved sustainability outcomes and reduced impacts to the community.

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Sport Lighting Infrastructure Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is a Youth Centre? 

Youth Centres are dedicated spaces where young people can engage in recreational activities, seek support, and develop important life skills. They are typically aimed at those aged between 12-25 years and staffed with Youth Workers, who support young people through a variety of activities and offer a safe, consistent presence.

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Youth Centres Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is Creative Arts Infrastructure? 

Creative arts Infrastructure is a building, place or space the primary purpose of which is to house or support the making or presentation of an artistic product. These places and spaces can include theatres, galleries, art studios, amphitheatres, community art spaces, co-working spaces and office spaces targeting creative industry practitioners such as writers, publishers and designers. It also refers to public art and the infrastructure to support arts activities in the public realm, such as digital technology and screens, lighting and the provision required services such as power.

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Creative Arts Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is a Seniors Centre? 

Seniors Centres are facilities and spaces designed to provide social connection and engagement for older people (within the City of Canning those over 55 can become members of the City’s seniors facilities). These dedicated spaces play a significant role in enhancing the physical, emotional, and social well-being of seniors by fostering recreation, socialisation, and community engagement. Within the City of Canning, these venues, owned by the City and community-managed, are specifically tailored to meet the unique needs of older individuals. They operate alongside recreational facilities, reserves, points of interest, and commercial services at other sites, providing a comprehensive support network for seniors. They provide a pivotal role in promoting healthy aging and enhancing overall quality of life for seniors.

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Seniors Centres Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is a Playgroup? 

Playgroups Infrastructure are facilities and spaces designed to cater to young children, typically from infancy to around eight years old under adult supervision. These facilities play an important role in providing a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment for young people and their caregivers. They provide diverse opportunities for young children that are crucial for their development and contribute to building a sense of community.

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Playgroups Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What is a Community Hall/Centre? 

Community halls and centres are multi-purpose facilities hired to community, commercial and family groups. They provide a variety of activities and services, such as community meetings, social gatherings, celebrations, performances, exhibitions, sports events, youth activities and educational classes.

What to do now:

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Community Halls and Centres Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.

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What are Aquatic Facilities?

 Aquatic facilities are typically large community infrastructure that focus on aquatic elements for health, fitness, training, competition, and learn-to-swim programs. 

These facilities usually contain lap pools, leisure pools, and other water bodies (such as spas and hydrotherapy/program pools), as well as water slides. They support a range of activities, including recreational swimming, squad training, competitions (such as carnivals, squad meets, and club training), water programs, aqua fitness, water walking, rehabilitation, water slides, birthday parties, and education

 What to do now: 

After reading the Draft Community Infrastructure Strategy and the Aquatic Facilities Type please answer the following questions and provide comments.