Council licenses Tristram Reserve from the Department of Education and Training (DET) for use as a sportsground. On 14 March 2018, DET held a meeting at Beacon Hill Public School to discuss its position in relation to the lighting project. DET gave an undertaking that the questions and answers would be made publicly available on Council's Your Say page once completed.

View the Q&A document.

DET supports the objectives of the Sportsfield Strategy as a means to increase the capacity of Council’s sportsfields to meet the projected need of an additional 24 hectares by 2031. Installing lighting on existing, unlit fields is the most cost-effective approach to build capacity and meet the projected need for space.

Other methods include; conversion of natural sportsfields to synthetic surfaces, converting other open space to sportsfields and purchasing of land.

If the floodlighting upgrade is approved at Tristram Reserve, DET will work closely with the public school community.

The conditions of consent for the original subdivision allow for the use of the area known as Tristram Reserve as a sportsfield, however the land is not a public reserve as defined under the Local Government Act 1993. Therefore State Environmental Planning Policy (Infrastructure) 2007 does not apply to this land and the low density residential zoning of the site allows for recreation areas including, sportsfield lighting.

Council, pending feedback through the consultation period, will need to lodge a Development Application to install the lighting.