Lark Hill Sportsplex

Lark Hill Sportsplex is part of the new $26 million development that will offer a first-class sporting facility to residents in the Rockingham and Peel Region of Western Australia.

Stage one of the Sportsplex is now complete and incorporates 35 hectares of first-class sports surfaces – the equivalent of more than 30 WACA cricket grounds.

Client
City of Rockingham

Scope of Work
Management of the feasibility study and master planning of Stage One of the Lark Hill Sportsplex – the most expensive infrastructure project ever undertaken by the City of Rockingham.

The Sportsplex grounds include rugby league and rugby union fields, softball pitches, state-of-the-art synthetic hockey surface and soccer and cricket pitches.

Innovations

• The Sportsplex has been designed using sustainability principles and has a $2 million innovative groundwater harvesting scheme in place.


• Groundwater is pumped from existing reserves in nearby Port Kennedy, helping to alleviate the area’s rising water table. The water is then held in an irrigation lake at Lark Hill and used to water the complex without drawing groundwater from the surrounding wetlands.


• A 4.5 km network of walk trails winds through 21 identified threatened ecological wetland areas that are part of the Lark Hill development.

Outcomes
Stage one of the Sportsplex is now complete and incorporates 35 hectares of first-class sports surfaces – the equivalent of more than 30 WACA cricket grounds.

It has three purpose-built clubrooms and provides a new permanent home for six major senior and junior sporting clubs in the region.

Close to 100,000 people will use the facility each year, making it one of the largest facilities of its kind in Western Australia.