Section 2: Asset Description 2.3.1 Description A developed urban park designed for use by the local residential community. Generally smaller in size, ranging from 1,000 m up to 2 hectares. The average useful size is considered to be from 3,000 to 5,000 m.2 2 The Neighbourhood Park should be easily accessible, ideally from more than one road frontage. It will be well maintained; be free draining; have flat or gently undulating grassed areas; be safe; and provide an attractive welcoming ambiance to the immediate local community (within a 10 minute walking distance or 500 metre radius of urban residential properties). Neighbourhood Parks may provide an open grass area suitable for small scale ball play, children’s play equipment, youth recreation facilities eg; Basketball half courts, seating, amenity lighting, paths and attractive amenity planting. Some may contain playing fields but are distinguished from the sports and recreation category by being for causal use and not generally booked for regular sports code use. Some sites may contain buildings used for local community and recreation functions. The Council provides 73.13 ha of Neighbourhood Reserves. The cost of maintaining Neighbourhood Reserves at current levels is on average $9,486/ha. The current rate of provision of neighbourhood reserves is 1.6 ha/1000 usually resident people. Table 7 - Neighbourhood Location Reserves Land OPEX CAPEX n (ha) 14/15 14/15 ($) ($) Blenheim 51 52.58 436,329 190,000 Picton 20 14.65 206,993 35,000 Renwick 5 1.23 31,134 0 Rai Valley 3 .92 7,243 0 Sounds 4 3.02 12,043 0 Awatere 2 .68 0 0 Havelock 1 .05 0 0 TOTALS 86 73.13 693,742 225,000 A full list of neighbourhood reserves is held in Appendix 1: List of Reserves. Page 24