A Multi-million dollar sport and recreation complex will be built to service the growing population in Newcastle's West, under a plan set to go before Newcastle Council today.
Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said the long term vision was to create a world class sporting facility in Maryand which would rival National Park in Cooks Hill.
The selected site is 20 hectares of parcel land along Creek road which has been offered to the council by mining group Glencore free of charge.
A 12 million dollar concept design has been drawn up which includes state of the art facilities for soccer, netball, cricket and AFL, with talks about including Tennis courts and a grandstand later down the road.
A masterplan would be developed to link the complex to the sporting facilities at Callaghan, Federal Park and Wallsend through pedestrian pathways.
"This will give us enough land to create an area we can turn into a showpiece of sporting facilities for all of the Western Suburbs of Newcastle" Ms Nelmes said.
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| Concept plan of the sporting precinct Photo credit- Newcastle Herald |
