Great spaces and places | He tūhoropaki me ngā tūwāhi tino pai
All Aucklanders have the right to fit-for-purpose sport, play and active recreation environments - and we know that good planning, good design and appropriate funding are key to easy-to-access, well utilised and future-proofed facilities.
Bringing these aspects together, we work with and through partners to make great spaces and places a priority in Tāmaki Makaurau. Through these partnerships, we are focused on maximising resources, boosting the use of spaces and places, and helping deliver projects.
The 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, including fit-for-purpose facility developments, are critical to achieving this vision
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 is being spread too thinly across many projects resulting in an extensive number of partly funded projects.
- Increasing construction costs, driving larger funding gaps.
- Complexity of projects requiring robust planning
- Challenges around people’s capacity and capability to manage the process and source funding.
Put simply we believe that change is required. We cannot keep doing what we are doing, as we will continue to deliver little, while the problem gets worse
The Tāmaki Makaurau Sport and Recreation Facility Priority Plan is intended to be a game-changer.
The Plan outlines the priorities across current sport and recreation facility projects to inform funders in their decision-making. The goal is to secure funding for the highest priority projects to get them delivered.
The priority list of sport and recreation facility projects included in the Plan represents the sector priorities as of April 2024. The goal is to secure funding and focus resources towards these highest priorities, so these projects are delivered.
This edition of the Plan represents the first step in determining our collective priorities. Going forward, we need to continue identifying the pipeline of the next priority projects to guide funding and align resources towards the delivery of the most important facility developments.
The Tāmaki Makaurau Sport and Recreation Facility Priority Plan
