Submissions close
26 May
Hearings
16 - 17 June
Have your say
Or mail your submission to:
Regional Sports Park Submissions
Hastings District Council
Private Bag 9002,
Hastings 4122
Open day
Members of the public are invited to:
- An open day scheduled for Saturday May 17, weather dependent. The open day will be held at the Percival Road site where the athletics track is under construction, between 10am and 12 noon.
You will have a chance to view site plans, speak to project staff and find out how you can have your say in the consultation process.
Early artist's impression of the Pedestrian Plaza
Stage 1
This stage is already under way with the building of a new all-weather athletics track and grandstand at Percival Road, to replace the old ones at Nelson Park. The public approved this through the Nelson Park referendum held in September 2006.
Cost - $16.68m
Council funding - $11.35m
Stage 2
This stage incorporates soccer fields, artificial pitch, sand pitch, soccer amenities building, tennis courts, landscaping, netball courts, internal roading and parking. This will only go ahead if the Council is satisfied it has the right mix and funding structure, which it will decide after hearing public submissions. All fundraising would be secured before the Council committed.
Cost - $8.08m
Council funding - $3m
Stage 3
This stage incorporates mini putt/children's playground, a velodrome, central building, confidence course, roading, parking and landscaping. As with Stage 2, this will only go ahead if the Council is satisfied it has the right mix and funding structure, which it will decide after hearing public submissions. All fundraising would be secured before the Council committed.
Cost - $30.90m
Council funding - $5.25m (including asset sales)
We want to know what you think about our proposed Regional Sports Park. This is a significant project for the future of sport, recreation and leisure in the Hastings District and in the Hawke's Bay region as a whole.
Read the proposal
You can download the full proposal or a summary in PDF format below.
- Summary proposal (PDF 492kB)
- Full proposal (PDF 1.4MB)
You may wish to right-click and 'Save Target As' to save a copy of the document - Audit NZ report on full proposal document (PDF 73kB)
Our Long Term Council Community Plan already signals the development of a Regional Sports Park at Percival Road. We would now like your views on advancing the wider Regional Sports Park concept.
We welcome your feedback on all aspects of the proposal, and in particular we would like to know:
- What you think about the Regional Sports Park concept, including the facilities and programmes we are proposing for it
- What you think about the amount of money the Council is proposing to contribute to the project
- What you think about the Council providing annual operational funding to the Regional Sports Park
- What you think about the Council forming a charitable trust to own the Sports Park (but not the land) as well as overseeing the fundraising, construction and operations of the Park as its governing body
One of the main reasons for doing this public consultation is the proposed Regional Sports Park represents a significant change to our Long Term Council Community Plan (LTCCP) 2006-2016. That means we need to make sure you are happy with what we are doing.
8 March 2008 - work progressing on the athletics track