Parks & Sporting Grounds Asset Management Plan 2022-2032

Council’s open space assets are estimated to be in good condition as shown in Figure 8, with 82.32% in good or very good condition. The average network portfolio condition is 1.8 out of 5 It should be noted that many of these assets have short useful lives when compared to other long-lived asset types such as road pavements and stormwater pipes.

Figure 9 provides a condition snapshot of Council’s open space assets by asset type and informs us that seawalls, lighting, fencing, play equipment, court playing surfaces, bridges and furniture have proportions of the asset base, rated in condition state 5 (very poor). These assets have a combined current asset cost value of $0.55M.

There are also approximately 4.39% or ($3.71M current asset cost) of the open space asset portfolio considered to be in condition state 4 (poor)