Work starts on new pavilion

CONSTRUCTION has begun on Armstrong Creek’s first sports pavilion.

The facility is part of the East Precinct sporting reserve, located on Central Boulevard, which will support four of the regions most popular sports; netball, football, soccer and cricket.

It will feature a $3.6 million multipurpose sports pavilion, two ovals with hard wickets — one with sports lighting, two floodlit netball courts and cricket training nets with two hard wicket pitches.

Contractors have started earthworks on the sports ovals and the new facilities are expected to open to the public in early 2019.

The community pavilion — funded by the City of Greater Geelong and the State Government — will feature a social room, meeting spaces and three sets of gender neutral change rooms and is expected to be finished in December.

Geelong Mayor Bruce Harwood said this would be the first of 10 new recreation reserves planned across the Armstrong Creek growth area.

“Armstrong Creek is an exciting growth area of our region and community infrastructure needs to match this growth,” he said.

“There has already been interest from the active community keen to start sporting activities and develop clubs at the reserve.”

Armstrong Creek is now home to about 7000 residents and is predicted to have a population of 65,000 people over the next 25 years.