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Spaces and places

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World-leading facilities
Sport NZ supports organisations to plan and design world-leading sport and recreation facilities around New Zealand to enable and inspire people to participate.

We aim to provide more New Zealanders with better places for play, active recreation, and sport. By doing this we will grow participation. Our goal is for sport and recreation facilities to be fit-for-purpose, well utilised and future-proof. To achieve this, we support sport and recreation organisations across New Zealand with better planning and designing of sports and recreation facilities.

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New Zealand Spaces and Places Framework
For Play, Active Recreation and Sport 2024

To guide smart decision-making and investment in play, active recreation and sport spaces and places, the framework includes a set of 10 interrelated principles and seven-step plan. For anyone planning or making decisions about spaces and places, using the framework will help ensure they will be well-used, sustainable, universally accessible and seen as good value investment.

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Sport and Recreation Hub Guide

Today sport and recreation clubs and organisations face increasing financial and regulatory pressure. This pressure, coupled with increased expectations from participants, aging club facilities and declining numbers of volunteers, requires us all to think innovatively about how some sport and recreation is delivered.

This guide has been developed to share learnings from previous hub projects across the country. Many of these projects have been collaborations between organisations and the communities they serve and, in many cases, they have resulted in sustainable, increased participation.

Sport NZ Facilities Planning Tool
Use this online tool to help your organisation make planning decisions about sporting facilities in your region. 

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