Tāmaki Makaurau sport and recreation facility priority plan
Tāmaki Makaurau sport and recreation facility priority plan
Aktive’s vision for Tāmaki Makaurau is to be the world’s most active city. Active environments which include fit-for-purpose facility developments, are critical to achieving this vision.
Auckland’s sport and recreation sector has an array of strategies and plans articulating the need and demand for improved and expanded facility provision but there is no consolidated view of our overall investment priorities.
Over the last ten years, it is taking longer and has become increasingly difficult to deliver sport and recreation facility projects due to:
- Limited and decreasing funding streams, with the pool of funding significantly lower than the scale of investment required.
- Funding being spread too thinly across many projects resulting in an extensive number of partly funded projects.
- Construction costs are increasing, driving bigger funding gaps.
- Complex projects requiring robust planning with sufficient people capability and capacity to manage the process and source funding.
All these factors contribute to longer project delivery timeframes. Put simply, CHANGE IS REQUIRED. We cannot keep doing what we are doing, as we will continue to deliver little, while the problem gets worse.
