1 2 CONTENTS Section 1 – Strategic Overview ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3 1.1 Introduction and Background ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Planning Context ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3 1.3 Study Area....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.4 Geographic Profile .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.5 Demographic Profile ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.6 Project Purpose .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 1.7 Methodology .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Section 2 - Situational Analysis ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 2.2 Wyndham HTLS Profile ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3 WYNDHAM HTLS FacilitY PROFILE ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 13 2.4 Regional HTLS Provision and Planning .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Section 3 - Stakeholder and community consultation ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 25 3.1 Community survey ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 25 3.2 Provider survey ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Section 4 – Demand Analysis .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 29 4.1 Current Trends and participation ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 29 4.2 HTLS Requests to be Located in Wyndham .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 31 1 Section 5 – Future Direction Considerations .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 33 5.1 HTLS Benefit Matrix ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 33 5.2 Environmental AND LAnd Use considerations .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 36 5.3 Analysis of Potential Sites ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 47 Section 6 - ACTION Plan & strategic priorities ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 50 6.1 Vision ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 50 6.2 Objectives ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 50 6.3 Strategic Priorities: ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 50 6.4 Monitoring and Evaluation ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 51 priority 1 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 52 priority 2 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 54 priority 3 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 55 priority 4 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 56 priority 5 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 57 priority 6 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 58 GLOSSARY ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 60 Appendices ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 62 Appendix 1: Wyndham HTLS Club Profiles ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 62 2 SECTION 1 – STRATEGIC OVERVIEW 1.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND “Hard to Locate Sports” (HTLS) are defined as sports/recreation activities which do not traditionally or easily fit within an urban environment due to one or more of the following factors that are inherent in the