Sport Strategy

Solucio was engaged to develop a Sport Strategy for the Sutherland Shire region. The objective of the project was to ensure that the provision and delivery of sports assets meets the needs of current and future generations of the Sutherland Shire. We aspired to encourage and provide access for people of all ages, physical abilities and interests to participate in sport – improving health and wellbeing outcomes for the community.

The methodology for this project involved:

• Desktop facilities audit and classification, as well as a facility hierarchy framework for sport and recreation facilities within SSC.
• Extensive stakeholder consultation, including 25 in-depth interviews, a survey with residents and sports clubs, as well as a series of community workshops.
• Sub-regional facility profiles including mapping of overlapped facility and population ratios.

The final outcome was a 15-year strategy for sport that reflects the needs and expectations of SSC’s growing sporting community and sets a framework for the creation of an active, safe, healthy, vibrant and liveable community.