The City of Melville is developing a new “game plan” for Sport and Recreation Infrastructure in Melville to identify and prioritise projects that meet the growing and evolving needs of our community. With the City's Active Reserves and Infrastructure Strategy (ARIS) now due for review, this new plan will provide the City with a strategic framework to help prioritise and deliver essential community infrastructure over the next 20 years.

The Game Plan – Sport and Recreation Infrastructure Melville will create a holistic plan that considers equitable access for all sport and recreation infrastructure needs, produce a prioritised list of proposals to guide future investment, define the planning required for each proposal, and articulate minimum facility standards for sport and recreation infrastructure.

Infrastructure types will include:

• Sport-specific facilities (e.g. tennis, bowls, netball)
• Active reserves (e.g. floodlights, changerooms, clubrooms)
• Indoor sport and recreation (including aquatics)
• Wheeled sports.

Opportunities to get involved

To capture the needs and ideas of those who use our sporting and recreational facilities most, the first step of this process involves engagement with our 77 sporting clubs. One-on-one interviews were conducted in August through to the end of October 2025, to gather detailed information from these important stakeholders.

The feedback collected will help shape the draft of The Game Plan, which will be presented to Council, for the purpose of City-wide public comment in early 2026.

To stay informed about these opportunities or receive updates as the project progresses, click ‘Follow Engagement’ at the top of this page.