The resurfacing of hard courts at Peter Ellis Multi-Use Courts and Leeming Senior High School has finished, ready for the start of the 2026 school year and the upcoming winter netball season.
Hundreds of local sportspeople will benefit from the work made possible with the help of $60,000 from the WA Government, aimed at ensuring local players have safer, high-quality facilities for years to come.
It is part of the City of Melville’s partnership approach to delivering community infrastructure and the WA Government’s PlayOn WA: 2030 by 2030 initiative to deliver 2,030 community infrastructure items across WA by the year 2030
The City of Melville and Department of Education also contributed to the cost to increase the total project budget to $247,000, encompassing the resurfacing of eight multi-use hard courts for netball, tennis and basketball. Fencing, gates and some replacement infrastructure was also included.
City of Melville Mayor Katy Mair was there to check out the new courts with Leeming SHS Principal Matthew Paton, Leeming Netball Club President Nic Gascoigne and Local MLA Stephen Pratt on Wednesday, 4 March.
She said part of the City’s Plan for the Future 2024-2034 is to provide multipurpose places and facilities to encourage healthy lifestyles and wellbeing.
“Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is something that is really important to me personally and to many others in our community,” the Mayor said.
“We have fantastic sporting facilities and programs across all ages and sporting codes.
“This upgrade and others like that are ongoing at sporting facilities right throughout the City, are part of delivering what our community members want to maintain healthy lifestyles.”
Caption: The resurfacing of multi-use hard courts at Peter Ellis Reserve and Leeming Senior High School is finished and to mark the occasion were (from left) Leeming Senior High School’s Michelle Spalding and Principal Matthew Paton, Local MLA Stephen Pratt, City of Melville mayor Katy Mair and Leeming Netball Club President Nic Gascoigne.