Catering for growth  

A new multi-use sporting facility is being built in Ranui, West Auckland, to cater for the area’s rapidly growing population.
 

From the 2010 Annual Report
Starling Park Sports Club, home of the Waitakere Bears Softball Club and Ranui-Swanson Football Club, is building a $2.6 million clubhouse and community facility at Starling Park, in Ranui.

The facility will cater for a mix of community activities and events in an area of high need.  

The Ranui and Swanson area’s population is projected to reach 31,865 people by the year 2021.  The Starling Park Sports Club will help to increase the utilisation of the park’s open public spaces and will become a key community asset and focal point for those in the area.

ASB Community Trust supports capital building projects where there is strong community involvement, so participation in community activities and social interaction improves, or where the project has regional significance.

The two-level multi-purpose building will provide clubroom facilities for the sport clubs such as changing rooms, showers and toilet facilities with a members lounge and junior clubroom/social area on the lower level of the building.  

The upper level will have a large kitchen, dining room and social space. This will be available to the public to hire for functions or community activities at reasonable community rates.  This facility is a good example of a ‘for the community, by the community’ development.