Interesting take on it.

Wondering if the proposed fields would be artificial turf or grass. Certainly wouldn't be wanting people parking on my new turf fields! They would get destroyed pretty quickly.

If grass, i can definitely see the usage there. Still not sure how the access would work to getting to these fields/carpark. Is it supposed to be from Linwood Ave? Or St Lukes Road?

Can definitely see your point with numbers with regards to Rugby on the fields. again, i think this would definitely depend on the turf. We wouldn't be getting the games of rugby in this volume on an artificial turf. Grass yes perhaps. And again, the numbers would only really occur in the weekends. So yeah would def be interesting to get some figures about how many people are playing consistently through the week, and weekends.

Would be interesting to know what the average numbers are that play at Chamberlain Park on a daily basis. Not a figure i have seen thrown around yet.

Would love to compare what the playing numbers per day currently are, compared to say a forecast of how many would use the park if and when re-developed.

Actually in this day and age, i don't consider getting in the car and driving to a sports field much of an issue. I do it all of the time. And i remember growing up, playing on fields in the weekend where my parents would drive me to Maharani for a game of rugby, so going to Glen Innes really shouldn't be a problem. There is a multitude of fields out Waitakere also available for use. Pretty much a 10 minute drive once you get onto that motorway. Am pretty sure most people that would be using the proposed fields would end up driving down anyway...

I came to the so called meeting last night at Chamberlain Park. For what it was it was a poorly organised and misleading event. Assumptions were this was a meeting. But for all it was worth it was just more of a show and tell.

For some reason (and this may be because there has been no real communication to anyone that either plays gold at the park or lives int he neighbourhood) i was under the impression that the Chamberlain Park plans were just an idea being thrown around. But to get there and see some of the research that has gone into this "proposal" it is much more than just an idea, and more that is pre-determined that chamberlain park WILL BE redeveloped.

There is a part of me that thinks some of the ideas for here are great, a driving range would be great, an area for teaching new and old golfers would be amazing. Some gardens would also be sort of fantastic.

But when i take a look around, all of this smacks of yet another under-thought council idea because someone has mentioned their kids can't play on a field at 6pm on a Wednesday night. Jeepers, there is some free land being under used. Lets spend millions there and turn them into sports fields, and if there is any land left over, we can probably build some houses there too.

Have a look around, less than 500 metres away from where you are proposing you have Fowlds Park, Western Springs Park, not too much further up the road we also have Gribblehurts Park, Grey Lynn Park, Eden Park (selling off for apartments and shopping), Nixon Park in Kingsland. Just to mention a few alongside what all the schools currently have. And not sure how much time you have spent at these parks, but the amount of time i have been tho them and seen them barely used is incredible. Perhaps the council could look at finding ways to better organise the current fields times of use? Seems a bit more logical to me, rather than spending the how many millions upon millions building across the road.

Oh and as for communal gardens, have we forgotten about Western Springs across the road, with some amazing walk ways, wildlife etc right next door?

It really seems that everything the council is proposing for Chamberlain Park is already existing a stones throw away.

Also, what about the traffic. Where would the cars be entering these new sports fields? Off St Lukes Road which is already massively congested? Or using the current entrance off Linwood Ave? Which again is already a very busy residential street.

Anyway, i can see the thoughts behind the ideas, but i truly believe that the council isn't looking at it the right way.