Woodvale’s Chichester Park has been opened as the City’s newest community sporting facility.
The redevelopment project, delivered by the City and club sponsor Geared Construction Pty Ltd, has sought to end the previous challenges of the site and provide a suitable modern sporting facility for the wider Woodvale community.
The revamped building features the following:
- Meeting room with four change rooms
- An umpires’ change room
- First aid room
- Toilets
- Kitchen
- Storage areas
- Additional parking bays
- A new barbecue/picnic area
- Underground drainage for the southern playing field
Joondalup Mayor Albert Jacob described it as a “fantastic new era” for park users.
“These great local clubs, players, and supporters now have a home they can truly be proud of,” he said.
“The new building addresses the previous challenges of the site, and this sleek modern facility will cater for the needs of male and female users, and the wider Woodvale community, for decades to come.
“The City of Joondalup’s vision is to be bold, creative, and prosperous, and I commend our Council for being bold enough to push ahead with this important project when they did, despite challenges in the construction market at the time. Their foresight has resulted in a community asset we can all be very proud of.”
Kingsley Westside President Chris Brady expressed his gratitude for the new facility in a press release:
“We’ve been playing out of Chichester Park since the 90s, so we are sort of the original tenants of the place,” he said.
“(And) certainly as our club grew and became more successful, this facility became past its fit for purpose stage.
“The northern suburbs of Perth is really the soccer capital of WA, so we are very lucky that we’ve been granted this facility, as there are other clubs who don’t have facilities anywhere near as good as this.”
The $5.6 million redevelopment, which is home to Kingsley Westside, most recently played host to an Australia Cup match between prominent NPL WA outfit Perth Redstar and the famed Blue and Yellow.
