Community Infrastructure Strategy

Community infrastructure includes the building and spaces that provide services opportunities to support individuals, families and groups to meet their social needs and provide places to improve their overall health and wellbeing. 

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.

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 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 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.

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 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 primarily includes facilities for skateboarding, BMX biking, and scooter riding, as well as infrastructure for mountain biking.

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 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.

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 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 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 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).

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.