New Melrose Football Precinct to Benefit School and Woden Region


Released 25/07/2017

It was great to officially open the new Melrose Football Precinct at Melrose High School today - a high quality facility that will benefit the students and our community.

This state-of-the-art complex will be a great benefit to Melrose High School students and the broader Woden community in supporting a healthy lifestyle and physical education.

The Melrose Football Precinct includes a new FIFA accredited synthetic grass football field with sports floodlighting and a new sports pavilion with change rooms and canteen. The project also includes a new car park and upgrades to the existing hard courts and natural grass field.

It is great the ACT Government has responded to the growing interest in football and having this high quality complex at a Canberra public school ensures access for not only our students but also our broader community sporting groups in the Woden region.

The synthetic field and wider complex will be used by the Melrose High School community during school hours to practice and hone their sporting skills on the best play surface possible. The new facility and FIFA-standard field will also be available after school hours and on weekends for use by sporting associations like Capital Football, associated clubs, and other sporting groups.

This project was delivered on time at a cost of $6.653 million from the 2015-16 budget, and I am glad that infrastructure investments such as this are providing valuable sports facilities to the Woden community and contribute to the ACT having the highest sport participation figures in the country.

Sporting organisations can book the synthetic grass field through the Active Canberra website at http://www.sport.act.gov.au.

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Yvette Berry, MLA | Media Releases

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