People in Osborne Park, Western Australia will be among many thousands throughout the City of Stirling to benefit from the upgrade and expansion work at the Charles Riley Memorial Reserve.
Works have already been carried out on the war memorial, and new community parkland has been established.
According to Mayor Giovanni Italiano, the next step in the two-stage project will be to expand the lower northern oval and to construct a new area for exercising dogs.
The community and regular users of the reserve have been consulted throughout the seven years it has taken to finalise the project, said the mayor, with the cost of Stage 1 amounting to more than $1.2m.
The work will transform the junior-sized northern sport oval into a senior ranked field, according to mayor Italiano.
He said an additional two athletics throwing circles would bring the total to six on the lower sport field, which is used by up to 650 little athletics participants.
New tiered seating will allow spectators and community members to follow the on-field action, with many matches to be advertised online and via flyer printing.
Mayor Italiano said 143 new trees were also earmarked for planting at the reserve.
The second stage of development, which will see the establishment of a dog exercise facility, is set to include an enclosed dog play area. Stages 1 and 2 are expected to be complete by the year's end.
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