Although I fully support a Sports Centre for Basketball plus sports like Futsal it should not be built here. It’s not fair to build in a place that takes away from other community people & services, as well it’s detrimental to the safety & quality of life for residents. I & so many others object to it being built in a location because-
*Current ovals used by public for exercise for other sports - soccer, cricket, local schools. Why is basketball more important? Why are their facilities being proposed to be removed?
*Traffic & parking already an issue in this area with NRL stadium, centre excellence, hockey etc. This will also adversely affect the residents accessing and parking at their homes
*Green spaces scarce & important in built up city areas so should not be further limited
*History of Flooding is an issue in the area & this will make it worse

There is a sports precinct at Glendale with National quality facilities at the Hunter Sports Centre. There is vacant land near this where there is an old disused overgrown sports oval. Glendale is only 15 minutes from Broadmeadow. Also loads of land near Costco & Bunnings area at Boolaroo

The location of the proposed basketball stadium is not appropriate due to existing heavy traffic in the immediate area, existing severe lack of parking, loss of the fields to a number of other sports, overshadowing of the school and a complete lack of parking in an already overloaded area. The immediate vicinity has the largest sporting ground in the Hunter, hockey fields, soccer grounds, knights football centre and other commercial businesses which rely on customers to be able to park. A more suitable option would be to redevelop the existing site of the basketball stadium. This is already in use for this purpose so does not impact other users and is very close to the broadmedow train station. An alternative site could be the former nearby former gasworks site. The basketball community needs a new stadium however this is not the correct location. Additionally there is no sufficient funding in place to actually complete the project. It is short by many millions of dollars

I would love to see this project go ahead but NOT in this location. Blackley and Wallarah Ovals are highly utilised grounds. The loss of these grounds will be GREATLY felt across the entire Newcastle community as other, already over-utilised, sports grounds try to pick up the additional load. PLEASE reconsider a more appropriate, less utilised site (eg the old ground on the Northern side of the Glendale Sports Centre or the old gas works in Hamilton North).

Wrong place find somewhere else

The new basketball stadium is urgently required. This space appears to be under-utilised and should accommodate the new facility with little impact. However, I dont support the loss of the key east-west cycleway running on the southern boundary - this needs to stay and be upgraded to support additional walking and cycling trips. Parking could be reduced to accommodate this - there are many public and active transport options at this location

I object to this project due to the significance of its current use as a cricket ground, training and playing facility for Lambton Jaffas and also it is utilised by the high school. Where do you propose all of these activities will take place? Once green space is removed, that's it, it is gone for good. Nothing about this proposal makes sense. You cannot tell me there aren't other more viable options for the build, Newcastle is a very big city.

I object to the location of the proposed HISC. I believe there are better sites available that allow for continuing use of Wallarah and Blackley ovals. These sites already have traffic mitigation, minimal impact on residences, don't rely on the destruction of greenspace and are closer to public transport.
These alternate sites are: Shortland/ Entertainment Centre and Beresfield

I live less than 1 kilometre from the proposed site of the new basketball stadium. When the football or any other large event is on at McDonald Jones stadium the area becomes gridlocked, certain roads in the area need to be closed to handle the traffic, people constantly park over our driveways and when hockey is on at the same time the situation becomes much worse. If another large sporting complex is built on wallarah and blacklie ovals this will not only take away from the local sporting groups but it will create traffic chaos if we get a triple header,football, hockey and basketball. On a separate issue, after heavy rains when the nearby drains are full these ovals act as a large retention basin,absorbing a lot of the rainfall, if the proposed basketball stadium goes ahead it will only exasperate the flooding issues the nearby houses suffer.