The Liberal Government will provide $80,000 to the Hobart City Council through Sport and Recreation Tasmania’s 2014 Major Grants Program.
The grant will help to fund Stage 2 of the Community Hub, which will be based around the Soldiers Memorial Oval area on the Queens Domain.
Today I met with Hobart City Council Lord Mayor, Alderman Damon Thomas, Alderman Jeff Briscoe, Chairman of Council’s Parks and Customer Services Committee and a range of stakeholders to discuss their plans for the precinct.
I am very pleased that the amenities that currently service users of both the Soldiers Memorial Oval and Crossroads Oval will be replaced with a multi-purpose sporting pavilion.
The new pavilion will have toilets, change rooms, a kiosk, meeting and function spaces, storage areas, a scorer’s box and a covered deck area.
This is an exciting project that will create a hub to better service the needs of Hobart’s recreational, sporting and community groups, with the number of participants using the facility expected to increase from 8,500 to 10,500 people a year after the improvements.
In addition to the Hobart Canine Obedience Club which will have its headquarters in the new pavilion, sporting organisations to also benefit include Cricket Tasmania, North Hobart Cricket Club and the Central Region Junior Soccer Association.
Stage 2 includes landscaping and finishing the important restoration of the Soldiers Memorial Avenue with reinstatement of the final six trees.
The $80,000 Sport and Recreation Tasmania grant is an addition to $44,000 the Hobart Canine Obedience Club was successful in obtaining through the Tasmanian Community Fund.
Elise Archer, Speaker of the House of Assembly
