St Clair Recreation Precinct Analysis

This assignment analyzes the St Clair Recreation Precinct's influence on its surrounding community. It examines how the precinct's evolution from sporting facilities to a hub encompassing health services, education, and recreation activities has contributed to positive community development. The analysis also discusses the precinct's role in addressing community needs and promoting social progress.

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Nature of community
St Clair Recreation Precincthas established about half a century ago as an indoor sports
and recreation center in Adelaide. It promotes indoor sports and is only one place containing four
court stadiums in the city (Missingham 2017). It is the main community hub in the suburban area
where a lot of people of diverse communities come for playing indoor games and for recreation.
Australia is a country where sports is the most popular method of recreation and time-pass.
People of different communities tend to play different sports with the help of which they get to
know each other well and blend in to make the bonds between communities stronger
(Missingham 2017).
St Clair Recreation Precinct is a place which possesses almost all the qualities of a
communityCentre.The facilities here at St Clair Recreation Precinctrange from health and fitness
tools, kids entertainment, roller skating events, birthday parties, vacation care and various sports
events are conducted. This community Centre has flexible membership options with no hard and
fast rules for the convenience of its members. Young and old people both are seen to be actively
visiting this place, but kids and young citizens of Adelaide are the major crowds. St Clair
Recreation Precinct contains a huge stadium added with many small indoor stadiums which are
up for hire at the time of big sports events.
Cultural and sports events organized in the precinct are the main source of revenue apart
from the membership. People of Adelaide who visit the precinct are mostly employed and work
in the city and spend their leisure time at St Clair’s playing sports which keeps them healthy and
fit (Ife 2013). It is also a place to socialize as many of the married members of the precinct first
met their spouses there only playing sports.

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Theoretical analysis of a Community
The community is defined as a group of people living in the same place who are
interrelated with each other due to one or more common aspects or practices. Here at St Clair
Recreation Precinct, citizens of Adelaide who are young and are interested in playing sports for
their refreshment form a community (Underwood 2017). They share the common interest in
sports and have a knack to enjoy themselves in each other’s company. St Clair Recreation
Precinct provides them a place where they can meet up and spend time with each other doing
some healthy and positive things (Underwood 2017). With theactive participation of its
members, St Clair Recreation Precinct has expanded its scope from being a sports community to
a full-fledged social community.It extends its activities for kids, elder people and even for the
education of a young generation (Munden-Dixon 2017). Looking after the needs of good health
and employment of its members by providing them with gym facilities and library St Clair
Recreation Precinct intends to make a difference in the overall growth. As any community would
do for its members St Clair Recreation Precinct looks after the economic, social, cultural and
environmental needs of its members (Munden-Dixon 2017).
Description of Community Project
With thepassage of time,St Clair Recreation Precinct needs to evolve to keep up with the
changing pace of community needs of its members. An entire new project has been started by St
Clair Recreation Precinct management to revitalize the place and make it modern equipped with
all the latest amenities (Pioltine Anseloni 2017). As it was observed in June 2017 that contractors
have started the construction work which will be completed until November 2017. This will
include the construction of a new road which will be an intersection on Woodville Road and
Glenys Nunn Drive (Ife 2013). This extension will provide a new space for recreation for the

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people of Woodsville and will have new visitors and members (PioltineAnseloni 2017). The
facilities of theplayground will be world class and its size will be the largest in the city of
Adelaide. New picnic facilities and barbeque spots will be made in addition to therenovation of
other small playgrounds and indoor courts. St Clair Recreation Precinct intends to implement its
plan in order to:
 Keep the local heritage of the facility intact.
 To keep in alignment the car parking and footpath to have better access to the fields.
 Construct a five court stadium to simultaneously conduct many sports event.
To achieve all the goals, cost of the upgradation of theproject will be in millions. It is
estimated that the entire cost will sum up to $25.77 million. There is an availability of $13
million and another $2.5 million will be secured by selling the Council assets which are not is
use. There is an expected contribution of about $7.5 million by the State Government given
through Department of Recreation and Sports (Fagan 2017). Being an expensive affair, this
upgradation will make St Clair Recreation Precinct a state of the art facility which will attract
more members from the mainland Adelaide city. The design input of the facility has been taken
from the stakeholders who have been with St Claire for many years and have ample experience
in the field of groups and communities (Wu 2017). The newly upgraded precinct will contain:
 Nature play and new play features in the stadiums.
 A state park.
 Passive picnic and recreational area.
 Enhanced area of sporting.
 New tennis courts including grass courts and clay courts.
 Smart car parking and pedestrian paths to provide connectivity to Woodville Road.

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Analysis of Community Development Process
Community development is done through a process which has a structure. To develop a
community, learning about the nature and type of community which is under consideration is
required (Fagan 2017). St Clair Recreation Precinct being an old one has passed this phase at a
very early stage. Secondly, taking inputs from the members of the community is required in
order to know the necessities needed to be added for proper development of that community.
Adding people of different culture and region is necessary to make a community (Farmer 2017).
St Clair Recreation Precinct has done this using the medium of sports on a major front. Providing
full access to the resources, assets, and equipment of the community makes its members
comfortable and develops a sense of trust and belongingness. It also creates a concept of ashared
vision among its members (Farmer 2017). St Clair Recreation Precinct has taken the initiative to
help its members in extending the scope of community services by realizing the need in some
concerned areas and articulating them on a priority basis. Upgradation of the precinct in such
huge manner with a large budget and fast construction shows the interest of the St Clair’s
management in facilitating its members with the world-class amenities and resources (Roka
2017). There should always be a “vehicle of change” in the community which drives the sense of
enhancement and development in a positive manner.
St Clair Recreation Precinct is observed to be dynamic and understanding in thecontext
of the needs of its members. Having a rich heritage, St Claire has constantly upgraded its
standard with time to provide thebest sporting and other community facilities to its members
(Roka 2017). A community only survives when it evolves constantly with time and adopt the
changing scenario of the society. St Clair has done exactly the same as at first they were mainly
concerned about the sporting events but in due course of time they extended up to health

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services, gym facilities, kids recreation activities and education services like a library for their
members (Back 2017). It can be concluded that St Clair Recreation Precincthas done everything
by the book for developing their community and have emerged as the biggest and most
successful community in the Adelaide city.

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