Project update April 2025

Final concept design

The design has been finalised for the Forsyth Reserve hard courts and can be viewed here.

Some small changes have been made to the design to suit the layout and maintain the budget. These include:

• asphalt mound and undulation on the bike track replaced with speed humps

• additional pavement games added

• creek connection and planting removed.

The netball hoops have already been installed as part of the work undertaken in 2024.

Construction for this project is scheduled to take place during the 2025-26 financial year.

Background

The project will repurpose the long standing hard courts and create recreational opportunities by incorporating a brand new learn to ride bike track, a variety of pavement games and reverting some of the area to irrigated turf.

Two southern hard courts are being retained as community courts which were recently recoated in May this year (2024) incorporating some additional line marking for tennis, netball, pickleball and hot shots.

We would like to acknowledge that these courts were previously home to the former Hackham Tennis Club who occupied the site since approximately 1980. The club folded in 2022 after almost 50 years of successful history of competition and social tennis.