Public Libraries
Public libraries are built community facilities that provide access to a range of physical and digital resources and services, including book collections, public computers, learning programs, and meeting spaces.
Community Infrastructure Strategy
What is Community Infrastructure?
Community infrastructure includes the building and spaces that provide opportunities to support individuals, families and groups to meet their social needs and provide places to improve their overall health and wellbeing.
The City of Canning's Community Infrastructure Strategy aligns with the Strategic Community Plan (SCP) 2021-2031 and guides the City's planning and delivery of community infrastructure.
Together with the Asset Management Framework, the CIS provides a robust decision-making tool for prioritising community infrastructure investment.
The scope of the full document suite includes one overarching Community Infrastructure Strategy (CIS) and 14 CIS Types:
Aquatic Facilities
Aquatic facilities are typically large community infrastructure that focus on aquatic elements for health, fitness, training, competition, and learn-to-swim programs.
Community Halls and Centres
Community halls and centres are multi-purpose facilities hired to community, commercial and family groups. They provide a variety of activities and services, such as community meetings, social gatherings, celebrations, performances, exhibitions, sports events, youth activities and educational classes.
Indoor Sports and Recreation Centres
Indoor sport and recreation centres are facilities designed to cater for individual and group physical activities that take place indoors. These facilities provide a safe, all year round environment for a range of activities, such as team competitions and training, individual sport and recreational pursuits, play and fitness activities, and casual hire.
Active Sports Facilities and Reserves
Sports facilities support the use of active sports reserves. There are many sporting codes represented across the City, with differing requirements. This document aims to give clear guidance when considering sports clubs and groups, planning renewal, upgrades or construction of new facilities across the City.
Youth Centres
Youth Centres are dedicated spaces where young people can engage in recreational activities, seek support, and develop important life skills. They are typically aimed at those aged between 12-25 years and staffed with Youth Workers, who support young people through a variety of activities and offer a safe, consistent presence.
Action Sports Infrastructure
Action Sports Infrastructure primarily includes facilities for skateboarding, BMX biking, and scooter riding, as well as infrastructure for mountain biking.
Scouts and Guides Facilities
Scouts, Girl Guides, and similar groups (such as Navy Cadets), are youth organisations with similar goals. They aim to help young people develop important life skills, values, and social connections that enable them to make a positive impact on their community.
Men's Shed
Men’s Sheds (also known as Community Sheds) are community organisations or spaces where people, typically older men, can come together to engage in various activities, socialise and pursue hobbies and interests.
Sports Lighting
The provision of quality sports lighting is integral when planning sport and recreational pursuits on City parks and reserves. Community sports lighting infrastructure allows reserves to be utilised safely for extended periods of time for training, match play and for recreational pursuits outside of the structured sporting environment.
Creative Arts
Creative arts Infrastructure is a building, place or space the primary purpose of which is to house or support the making or presentation of an artistic product.
Playgroups
Playgroups Infrastructure are facilities and spaces designed to cater to young children, typically from infancy to around eight years old under adult supervision. These facilities play an important role in providing a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment for young people and their caregivers.
Seniors Centres
Seniors Centres are facilities and spaces designed to provide social connection and engagement for older people (within the City of Canning those over 55 can become members of the City’s seniors facilities).
Athletics Infrastructure
The sport of athletics is made up of a variety of events comprising running (sprints, middle distances, cross country etc.), jumping (high jump, long jump and triple jump), throwing (shot put, javelin, discus etc.) and walking.
Strategic direction
The Community Infrastructure Strategy (CIS) informs the City’s decision-making regarding current and future community infrastructure.
It is a guiding document for decision-makers, asset and service managers, developers, and users of our community assets. The strategic directions set by the CIS guide the necessary provision of community infrastructure to meet the needs of current and future communities within the City of Canning.
The Strategic direction image (below) outlines how the CIS integrates and aligns with the City’s existing plans and strategies.
Project Prioritisation (Multi-Criteria Analysis)
The costs of delivering and maintaining community infrastructure are significant and resources are limited. This means that projects and work programs need to be prioritised based on research and their contribution to CIS outcomes.
A Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) tool has been developed that measures community infrastructure priorities against standard criteria to rank and compare options. It provides relative rankings that are agile, transparent and defensible. Scoring differs according to the stage the project is in (project development, investment selection or project delivery).
Using the MCA enables informed decision-making, guiding the City’s investment into projects and work programs that provide the strongest alignment with principles and deliver the most community benefit.
You can view the full MCA assessment criteria below:
Current Priorities
Here are our current top three project priorities:
Wyong Reserve Sports Facilities Upgrade
The proposed upgrade to Wyong Reserve involves the development of a new changeroom facility and the renewal of a second facility that will serve as a clubroom space for Bentley Cricket Club, Canning South Perth Football Club (Australian football) and Royals Sporting Club (softball). The proposed new facilities will align with modern standards and provide the facility’s users with the best possible conditions to attract and accommodate increased diversity, participation, membership and to improve sustainability.
Ranford Sports Lighting Upgrade
The City has been proactively upgrading sports lighting across its active reserves for a number of years and Ranford Reserve is the current priority. Improved sports lighting allows clubs to utilise public open space more safely and for longer periods of time, while maximising their use of reserves and rotating high traffic areas more effectively. Ranford Reserve is currently used for soccer, cricket and athletics.
Canning Vale Sports Complex – Stage 1A
Development and delivery of a regional-level sports complex in Canning Vale will service the long-term sport and recreational needs for the City of Canning and surrounding LGAs where current infrastructure is unlikely to meet future demand based on population growth forecasts. The current project scope includes AFL fields, turf cricket pitches, soccer fields, athletics track, cricket wickets and nets, club rooms, change rooms, storage, sports lighting, new roundabout access, new rural path access, and a carpark.
You can view the full list of project priorities below. Please take note of whether the project has been assessed as project development, investment selection, or project delivery. This document is updated at the start of each month.
Propose a Project
The MCA not only empowers the City to guide projects and work programs but also enables residents to propose projects that may be beneficial to the community.
To ensure transparency, the City facilitates this process through an initial submission form which leads to detailed discussions with City Officers. These detailed discussions allow the City to evaluate and prioritise proposed projects using the MCA framework, and to assess and compare with CIS outcomes.
If you have a project related to any of the Community Infrastructure types mentioned above, please fill out the submission form below:
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