City of Rockingham (WA)

The City of Rockingham (City) sought to develop a Master Plan for the Baldivis Recreation Reserve (BRR) to enhance its ability to cater for sport, recreation and community activities within the region. The BRR comprises:

Baldivis Recreation Centre – comprising one indoor sports court, kitchen, meeting room, change rooms, storerooms and amenities.

• Baldivis Hall – comprising a function room, kiosk, storerooms and amenities.
• Active reserve space (with floodlighting) – currently used for soccer.
• Six tennis courts (floodlit), a double-sided hit-up wall and club storage/meeting structure.
• Two community heritage-listed buildings – used by a playgroup and arts group.
• Public toilet and storage building.
• A playground, picnic area and shelters, extensive bushland incorporating walking trails.

The deliverables in the development of the Master Plan were:

• Stage 1: Project and Site Analysis – involved a detailed project and site analysis that identified constraints, opportunities and risks to inform the scenario planning process.
• Stage 2: Site Development Option – involved working through scenarios and drawing up options that address the findings from Stage 1 prior to formalising the building concept and site layout plans.
• Stage 3: Master Plan – finalises the building concept and site layout plans, culminating with an opinion of probable costs, staging plan and an implementation strategy.

During the development of the Master Plan, a range of options were prepared and presented for further review and development. Through a review of all options, the preferred Master Plan Site Layout was developed.

Major projects (that will require a greater level of planning) were grouped into stages for delivery, along with an Opinion of Probable Cost (OPC) escalated to the indicative year of delivery. Projects included:

• Eastern car park and overflow parking area, including footpaths.
• Baldivis Recreation Centre – Major upgrade.
• Terracing of existing retaining wall, development of new grass practice area/ events space and playing field extension (where possible), including footpaths.
• Baldivis Hall – Major upgrade.
• Southern car park upgrade.
• Future community purpose/recreation space.