City of Rockingham officially opens new Baldivis Sports Complex

The City of Rockingham has officially opened the new Baldivis Sports Complex, with the major project set to provide sporting and recreation facilities for local clubs and community groups.

The Baldivis Sports Complex features four indoor courts that cater for a range of sports including; basketball, netball, badminton, volleyball, indoor soccer and floorball. It also contains a variety of multipurpose rooms, and an alfresco café. The Complex will be open for use by all community members.  

The Main Pavilion is home to the White Knights Baldivis Cricket Club for the summer season, while the Baldivis Brumbies Football Club will call it home during the winter football season.

To mark the occasion a formal opening event and plaque unveiling was held at the Complex on Friday 17th March 2023. City of Rockingham Mayor Deb Hamblin was joined by WA Premier Mark McGowan, Baldivis MLA Reece Whitby, and several representatives from the Baldivis White Knights Cricket Club and Baldivis Brumbies Football Club. 

Construction on the first stage of the Baldivis Sports Complex began in early 2020 and over the past three years the City has delivered a new Main Pavilion, change rooms, maintenance shed, eight hectares of playing space with floodlighting that includes ovals for AFL and cricket, three separate car parks, as well as the Baldivis Indoor Sports Complex.

A public art element titled Karrikins Dirdong, which depicts the six Nyoongar seasons, is also a key feature of the project located centrally within the complex adjacent to the central pedestrian spine. In addition, the City has worked to preserve the environmental values of the site by planting 40,000 native plants and installing nine nesting boxes for native black cockatoos.  

Mayor Hamblin said the project was guided by the Baldivis Sports Complex Master Plan and would play a key part in fulfilling the City’s Strategic Community Plan aspiration of planning for future generations.

“The BSC on Eighty Road is one of the largest infrastructure projects the City has ever delivered and it will help to meet a significant shortage of active reserve space in Baldivis for present and future sporting groups,” Mayor Hamblin said.

“Sport and recreation plays a vital role in delivering positive health and wellbeing outcomes for our community, and the City looks forward to the BSC delivering sporting and social benefits to residents for many years to come.” 

James Allsopp, Cricket Australia Executive General Manager Community Cricket and Capability, shared “providing the best possible facilities for cricketers and local communities is a key priority for Australian Cricket. This magnificent new complex will be tremendous for our players and residents of the City of Rockingham, as well as all the other sports who have cooperated in its development.”

WA Cricket GM Community Cricket, Jo Davies, said the Baldivis Sports Complex project will inspire even more boys, girls, men and women to get active and enjoy the benefits of cricket adding “this project will go a long way to improving the cricket experience for not only the White Knights Baldivis Cricket Club but also the surrounding communities and will continue to support the continued growth in cricket participation across the area.

“I’d like to thank all parties involved in the bringing this project to life, your support has delivered a fantastic sporting complex that will benefit the local cricket community well into the future.”

The Western Australian Government contributed $12.5 million towards the project, with $100,000 support provided by Cricket Australia and the WACA through the Australian Cricket Infrastructure Fund.

The next phase of the Baldivis Sports Complex that the City will deliver includes the Southern Pavilion, Baldivis Outdoor Recreation Space and outdoor hardcourts.

For more information visit rockingham.wa.gov.au/planning-and-building/current-projects-and-works/baldivis-sports-complex