Regional Sports Park

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The Regional Sports Park at Percival Road 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.

Bookings

Bookings for the athletics track can be made through Hastings District Council's Bookings Officer, Donna Godfrey, on 06 871 5000.

Public meetings

The next public meeting on the progress of the Hawke's Bay Regional Sports Park will be added here soon. Written questions may be submitted to Christine Ennis christinee@hdc.govt.nz.

The new format of the public meetings will also allow for questions to be taken from the floor at the meeting. Public meetings will now be held quarterly.

View minutes and questions from past meeting agendas.

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)
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• Audit NZ report on full proposal document (PDF 73kB)

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)