CALL TO ACTION! – PLAN FOR NEW BASKETBALL FACILITIES ON THE MP

Dear Members

Basketball facilities across the Mornington Peninsula need updating and are significantly under supplied. This is a call to the entire Mornington Peninsula basketball community to ‘Have Your Say’

The Mornington Shire recently released the Sports Capacity Plan Volume 2 (Indoor Sports). This report reviews the existing provision of indoor sporting facilities and their adequacy to meet the demand and need for a range of indoor sports.

The report concludes that an additional 6-10 indoor courts required by 2036 in both the Northern and Southern areas of the Mornington Peninsula. Basketball as a sport has more children and adults participating than any other sport on the Mornington Peninsula and the flow on effects of limited and outdated facilities is impacting the delivery, development and growth of basketball in our community.

If you or someone you know is or has been involved in basketball on the Mornington Peninsula, please take 5 minutes to complete this short survey being conducted by the Shire. The more responses received will help kickstart the process, turning those 6-10 courts from being in a report to being built in our community!

To read the full report please see attached and Have Your Say follow this link https://shape.mornpen.vic.gov.au/sportsplan?tool=survey_tool&tool_id=have-your-say#tool_tab

What the Shire need to know from our community:

• where would you like to see new basketball facilities built on the Mornington Peninsula
• how are you impacted by lack of basketball facilities on Mornington Peninsula
• what’s important to you when planning basketball facilities on the MP ie accessibility, travel, carparking, comfort level, social rooms, show courts etc
• have you experienced any barriers that prevent you or someone you know from participating in basketball on the MP

Thank you for getting behind this and showing your support for the number 1 sport on the Mornington Peninsula!

Sam Browne
MDBA General Manager