TENNIS FACILITY REVIEW – FEBRUARY 2010 Brown Park The Brown Park Recreation Complex in Swan View has 6 tennis courts, 4 on the Southern side and 2 located on the Northern side near the outside basket ball court and skate area. The 4 south courts were last resurfaced March 1999 at a cost of $89,603 by Sports Surfaces, the 2 north tennis courts as well as the basketball court and skate court were last resurfaced in February 2001 at a cost of $61,990 by West Cost Synthetic Surfaces. New lights and towers were installed in 2007 at a cost of approximately $16,000. Court Surface All 6 courts have a green acrylic coating and overall appear to be in relatively good condition, despite some discolouration. Concrete supports for the old light towers have been removed. There are numerous minor cracks in the western court. The eastern court has worn through in some places with minor cracking evident. Both courts have some small indentations possibly caused by organic matter when resurfaced. There are several small indentations in the surface near the centre light tower on the southern side.

There are large build ups of leaf litter in the SE and SW corners of the courts with extensive areas along the southern court surface that includes green weeds and young tree saplings that need to be removed.

Drainage Drainage consists of a number of grates flowing to outside of court. Some evidence of ponding and mould build up.

Grate/drain in nth west corner is blocked with leaves and debris

Fencing Fencing is in good condition, new fencing been installed behind the tennis clubrooms to improve security.

Car Park Car park surface for northern courts is a sealed surface and in fair condition. Car park drainage for the southern courts is good.

Chidlow The Chidlow Recreation Reserve Complex contains 2 acrylic tennis courts. The car park at the Chidlow Recreation Reserve Complex exists for all users at the Complex, not specifically the tennis courts. The 2 tennis courts were last resurfaced with a Plexi-pave surface in January 1995 by Sports Surfaces at a cost of $27,000. Court Surface Overall the Chidlow tennis courts appear to be in fair condition with no major problems despite being patched in places following vandalism and some minor discolouration due to organic matter. Some cracks are starting to appear in the surface at various areas.

Significant damage is also starting to occur in front of the double gates caused by the gates rubbing on the surface when opened and closed that could become a trip hazard as it starts to extend into the court.

Drainage Drainage is poor with evidence of stains consistent with heavy pooling of grates in some corners and may be poor after heavy rain.

Fencing Fencing is in fair condition but there are three or four large holes (W,E & S fences) and some poor patching in a few areas.

Car Park Car park surface is sealed and in fair condition as is the drainage.

Darlington The Darlington Tennis Courts consist of 4 acrylic surface courts to the east of the Darlington Oval. These courts were last resurfaced by West Coast Synthetic Surfaces at a cost of $21,500 in January 2003. New lights and towers were installed in 2007. Combined with the scheduled replacement of the perimeter fence in 2007/2008 comes to a cost of $30,300. Court Surface Court surface is generally in good condition, despite some discolouration due to run off from the gravel car park along the eastern and northern court surface boundaries.

In the NW corner patches of fibreglass have been exposed.

Drainage Drainage consists of grates in some corners. Heavy pooling is evident with large water stains around all grates. Members report drainage is poor even with minimal rain.

Fencing Fencing is in good condition as it has recently been installed. Double access gates now allow access to court surface

Car Park Car park surface is gravel and in fair condition, sealing of the car park would improve aesthetics and limit transfer of gravel and dust onto the courts, especially during winter with the poor drainage.

Glen Forrest The Glen Forrest tennis courts, located in the Burkinshaw Park Complex consist of 6 courts with an acrylic surface. Under the supervision of McDowall Affleck Pty Ltd 5 courts were constructed / reconstructed in June 1996 by KTB Contractors and finished with a Plexi-pave surface at a cost of $200,757. The single eastern court was resurfaced at a cost of $14,200. Court Surface The 5 west courts (No.2 – No.6) are in reasonable condition with all courts showing minor cracking, water staining and noticeable wear (the underlying asphalt is starting to show in many places and will need re-painting soon to maintain condition. Court 1 has a lot of minor cracks and evidence of ponding and water stain.

Court 4 Court 1

Drainage Some evidence of ponding and water stains in some areas.

Court 1

Fencing Fencing is in good condition apart from repairs around internal entry gate.

Car Park Car park surface is gravel and in good condition.

Harry Riseborough The Harry Riseborough Recreation Ground Complex consists of 6 two-tone green acrylic courts in good condition. The 4 west courts were resurfaced at a

cost of $27,600 in February 2003 by West Cost Synthetic, while the 2 most eastern courts where resurfaced by Sports Surfaces in March 2004 at a cost of $14,060. Court Surface Court surface is a green acrylic in excellent condition. Courts show evidence of recent cleaning to remove water stains and organic growth.

Drainage Drainage to the North is fair while to the East, West and South drainage is poor. There is evidence of ponding in some areas along northern fence. Cuts in kerbing have allowed extra drainage along most of this but some areas outside of fence are higher than inside so draining is ineffective.

Fencing Fencing is in reasonable condition, despite some poor patching along the northern fence.

This section of fence line also show evidence of multiple entries over the top that have caused the fence to be curled over in many places especially near posts and corners. It also has large areas where the fence sags in at the bottom possible caused by years of impact from soccer balls and climbing over.

Car Park Car park surface is an undefined gravel area in poor condition. Car park drainage is in poor condition as well. Frequent use by people using the skate park have caused the car park to become chopped up and loose.

Helena Valley/Boya The Helena Valley/Boya Recreation Reserve Complex consists of 4 acrylic surface tennis courts to the North and 1 basketball hard court to the South. The 4 tennis courts were resurfaced by Tennis Courts (WA) using the Synpave Acrylic 2 coat system in January 1996 at a cost of $11,490. Court Surface Court surface shows signs of cracks and gouges many located on the actual playing surface. Both northern courts are shows many cracks particularly the eastern court. The southern courts are in fairly good condition but showing signs of minor cracking mainly off the playing surface

There is also some minor leaf litter build up around court edges.

Drainage Drainage, which consists of breaks in the kerbing to allow water to flow from the court is very poor and does little to prevent water ponding on the court. There is also some evidence of overflow from the car park drainage system intruding on the court surface.

Fencing Fencing is in good condition despite some minor repairs being made.

Car Park Car park entry consisting of an asphalt entry is in a poor condition with undefined and crumpling edges and potholes. The gravel parking area is in fair condition as is the drainage from this area.

Mahogany Creek The Mahogany Creek Recreation Reserve Complex consists of 2 tennis courts with an acrylic surface. The 2 tennis courts were last resurfaced by Sports Surfaces in November 2000 at a cost of $15,950. Court Surface Court surface has some spots both on and off the court that has the fibre glass underneath the court exposed. It is also heavily discoloured from both ponding and breakdown of organic matter.

Drainage Drainage is reasonable.

Fencing Fencing is in good condition, although the provision of double access gates would be desirable.

Car Park The gravel parking area is in fair condition as is the drainage from this area.

Mt Helena The Mt Helena tennis courts is part of the Elsie Austin Reserve Complex and consist of two banks of courts, 2 courts in the upper eastern and 2 courts in the lower western bank. All four courts were resurfaced in 1990 and the lower western courts were last resurfaced in February 1997 at a cost of $11,057. The two eastern courts were resurfaced in 2007 at a cost of $7,305. Court Surface Western Courts have some minor cracking.

Drainage Drainage appears to be poor on both east and western double courts, as is evident by the areas on ponding.

Fencing Fencing is in reasonable condition although the wire mesh is rusted and requires small repairs in parts.

Car Park Car park surface is sealed and in excellent condition as is the car park drainage.

Wooroloo The Wooroloo courts located with the Wooroloo Primary School consist of 2 courts used for tennis, basketball and netball. These courts consist of a non-painted bitumen surface. Sports Surfaces laid the non-acrylic surface in February 2004 at a cost of $20,375. Court Surface Court surface is in fair condition. It has some areas of bitumen patching that are reasonable but large gouges located near and on the play area are dangerous and need to be patched. The original steel wheels (attached to the basketball backboard set up that caused the gouging), have been replaced by pneumatic tyres.

Attempts to clean up graffiti have left unsightly marks across the court detracting significantly from the aesthetics.

A large build up of leaf litter around the fence line requires removal.

Drainage Drainage appears average as there are limited outlets for the water.

Fencing Fencing is in reasonable condition but it needs repairs in spots especially at the bottom on the fence in several locations to limit unlawful access.

Car Park Car park surface is sealed and in good condition.