Section 2: Asset Description 2.2.1. Description A Sports & Recreation Park is designed and used for sport and recreation, and is often-multi use, providing for a range of community activities and facilities. It is likely to have formally maintained sports turf for a mixture of winter and/or summer sport. The sports turf areas are maintained to an appropriate standard for the sports code use. It may accommodate hard court and built recreation facilities. Toilets, changing facilities and car parking are likely to be available and Photo: Lansdowne Park some may have resident club facilities. Some parks may have recreation facilities such as playgrounds, and other facilities serving a local neighbourhood and community function creating a multi-function park with a wide range of activities occurring. Some parks may be entirely leased for sports or recreation activity. The determining factor is the provision of bookable sports play facilities, which are the primary purpose of the park. Throughout Marlborough the Council provides and maintains sportsgrounds for year-round use by residents and visitors, providing opportunities for the community to partake in team or individual sporting pursuits of a formal or informal nature. The Council endeavours to cater for a wide range of sporting codes and their respective spectators, including but not limited to, softball, tennis, cricket, cycling, football, league, rugby, netball and equestrian activities. The administration of Council sportsgrounds is allocated between the Council and community groups. Sportsgrounds sub-categories include: Mixed Use District Sportsgrounds, Mixed Used Local Sportsgrounds and Exclusive Use Sportsgrounds. Table 2 – Total Sports Grounds Location Reserves Land (ha) OPEX 13/14 CAPEX 13/14 n ($) ($) Blenheim 12 97.3 1,059122 420,000 Picton 1 8.7 407,824 0 Renwick 2 10.24 195,743 0 Havelock 1 1.4 54,630 0 Seddon 1 5.4 71,000 0 Ward 1 6.1 17,716 0 Wairau 1 3.4 389 0 TOTALS 19 132.54 1,203,285 420,000 2.2.2 District Sportsgrounds – Mixed Use District Sportsgrounds are designed and used for formal sports, predominantly of a team nature, and serve the whole district. The reserve will consist of sports turf maintained to an appropriate standard for use by a mixture of summer and winter sporting codes and will host all grades from junor topemer ad some natonal tournaments. Spo ts events have a higher level of organisation than at a local level. The Council provides 59.11 ha of District sportsgrounds. The cost of maintaining district sportsgrounds at current levels is on average $14,604/ha. Current rate of provision is 1.23 ha/1000 usually resident people. Photo: Oliver Park Page 19