Creating a vision for Seaforth Oval

Seaforth Oval provides many opportunities for our community to increase their social, mental and physical health and wellbeing. From using the community centre to organised sport including soccer, cricket and little athletics, to walking the dog, enjoying the playground and basketball hoop, casual gatherings and connecting to trails in the picturesque Garigal National Park, Seaforth Oval has so much to offer.

We are developing a new Seaforth Oval Plan of Management (PoM) which includes adding new Crown land and the creation of an intermediate to advanced level bike park adjacent to the informal car park in the southern part of the reserve.

To inform the development of a new draft PoM, we sought your views over a four-week period and received over 500 comments on what's important to you about Seaforth Oval, how you use it and opportunities for improvement.

This feedback will inform the new Seaforth Oval Plan of Management, including opportunities for improvements and ideas about the proposed bike park to ensure that Seaforth Oval continues to meet the needs of the community into the future.

Next steps

The draft PoM will be forwarded to the NSW Government Crown Lands later this year for review and endorsement to publicly exhibit.

Once comments have been received from Crown Lands, we will give you an update on the next steps regarding the public exhibition. A summary of feedback received will be made available in a Community Engagement Report during public exhibition.

Why is Council preparing a new Plan of Management?

A new Seaforth Oval Plan of Management is required to:

• meet Council's obligations under the Crown Land Management Act 2016
• enable a new intermediate to advanced level bike park to be built on Crown land
• incorporate the additional Crown land (27,500 square metres) to the south of Seaforth Oval into the Plan of Management
• review and update commitments regarding the current and future use of the oval and its management, in consultation with the community to ensure that the site and facilities continue to meet the needs of users.

Once we have reviewed community feedback, the draft Plan of Management will be developed and placed on public exhibition for further consideration by the community.

All submissions in their entirety will be made publicly available in the Community Engagement Report. Personal identifying information and inappropriate language are redacted.