The City of Mandurah has developed a Community Initiated Infrastructure request process to provide a streamlined approach for Clubs who are seeking to undertake capital works to create, upgrade, alter, renovate, extend, or modify facilities they currently lease or hire, where the city has no funding involvement for the proposed work.
The Community Initiated Infrastructure application pack assists in providing the City with more detail around what the Clubs is proposing so the City to make an initial assessment and to ensure that there is an identified need for the project along with investigating what approvals and licences may be required.
Eligible Projects:
Non-fixed Infrastructure Projects:
- Affixing items such as memorabilia or signage
- Installing additional equipment such as a television or deep fryer
- Play equipment
Fixed Infrastructure Projects:
- Unisex change rooms/toilets upgrades
- Sports flood lighting
- Equipment storage
- Facility fit outs
- Kitchens
- Shade structures
- Asset renewal projects like court resurfacing and conversion of bowling greens to synthetic surfaces
- Community gardens
- Community artwork, such as murals
- Heating and cooling upgrade
- Sport specific capital infrastructure such as cricket / baseball practice nets
Ineligible Projects:
- Applications where the club/group are unable to demonstrate the ability to fully fund the works and that it will impact the clubs/groups ongoing financial sustainability
- Applications that will negatively impact on the surrounding residents or other users of the facility
- Incomplete or partial applications
- Applications that are unable to justify why they are required and do not align with any City planning documentation
- Projects that do not meet the relevant Australian Standards and construction codes including access requirements for persons with a disability
- Maintenance repairs to infrastructure such as roof replacements
- Single function projects that inhibit the suitability of the facility for other uses
- Retrospective projects that have already been undertaken
- Projects that are not on City owned or managed land
- Facilities that are built for the sole purpose of serving alcohol
- Infrastructure that is not the responsibility of Local Government
- Projects that duplicate existing services, programs and infrastructure
