25-7-07
Media Release
Council Opts for
Reduced Number of Sporting Fields at Pioneer Park While Greens Start Process
Rolling on a New Field at Bicentennial Park.
Randwick
City Council looks set to have two new sporting fields at different locations
in the municipality.
Councillors
have unanimously taken up a Greens proposal that a Development Application be
made to construct a field at Bicentennial Park.
After
a more divided debate Councillors have opted for a compromise decision on the
contentious Pioneer Park site that will see only one more sporting field built
there.
The
Greens did not support the Pioneer resolution because they believed that
intense community questioning of the need for a new field at that particular
site should have seen a decision deferred until the Council has completed a
recreation needs study due in October.
Greens
Councillor and Deputy Mayor Murray Matson said after the meeting.
“The
Greens believe that a decision on new sporting fields at Pioneer Park should
not have been made with out the benefit of the findings of the recreation needs
study due in October. We could have easily deferred a decision until then
because Council had already resolved to commence the remediation part of the
upgrade process which in itself will take a reasonable amount of time.”
Pioneer Park is a
former tip site and needs to be remediated.