Grant brings Shire's sports facility dream a step closer

The Shire of Broomehill-Tambellup is one step closer to establishing its dream sports pavilion with $200,000 of funding awarded to the project's budget recently.

Provided through the Great Southern Development Commission's Regional Grants Scheme, the allocation of funding will go towards redevelopment including new clubrooms, meeting rooms, a kitchen bar and new synthetic grass for the bowling green.

With a budget of about $3.2 million, Shire president Gary Sheridan said the pavilion would be more than just a sporting facility.

"It will be a community hub, any meeting, function can be organised up here, it can only bring what a new modern facility can bring," he said.

"It will just update everything."

Currently the Tambellup Sports Pavilion Advisory Committee are working with architects to identify ways in which the cost of the project can be reduced without losing functionality, and they will meet in the next few months to consider the next draft of the plans.

Strategic support and projects officer Pam Hull said projects like these were about bringing the community together socially, especially in the country regions.

"Smaller communities are doing it tough, and with all the issues like mental health you need to bring people together, this facility will enable that," she said.

"It will be a fantastic opportunity, and there will be a real sense of ownership."

It (new sports pavilion) will be a community hub, any meeting, function can be organised up here. Gary Sheridan