Youth Infrastructure Strategy
This Plan has been prepared to assess the need for, and community demand for additional youth recreation spaces and facilities in the City and to identify the design principles, scale, preferred components and most appropriate locations for such facilities.
It firstly defines the typical play and recreation interests and behaviours of young people, including the specific interests and needs of youth subgroups, including tweens (10-12 years), teenagers (13-18) and young adults (18-24). Each of these age cohorts have different requirements and use public spaces differently.
The Plan then reviews the distribution and demographic characteristics of young people across the City to understand the geography of youth needs and demands, both now and into the future
Community engagement with young people was undertaken to obtain their specific ideas and information on their recreation interests and activities.
The Plan also identified the full range of facilities and spaces of relevance to young people, including skateparks and other action sports.
Finally, the Plan proposes a new youth infrastructure model involving a hierarchy of facilities from regional to local. The model includes key site selection criteria and an implementation plan that outlines the recommended approach for the provision of new spaces and facilities for young people across the City of Ryde.
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