Parkes Shire Council were recently thrilled to announce the completion of the new storage shed at Harrison Park and officially hand the keys over to the Parkes and District Amateur Soccer Association.
This project was completed under the Parkes Shire Council's Open Space Assets program and will provide secure storage of equipment and assets for Harrison Park's user groups and Council teams.
President of Parkes and District Soccer, Wayne Osborne and committee member Angela Bottaro-Porter are excited about the new storage space and all of the possibilities the area will provide for soccer in Parkes.
"We currently have storage across the road (Parker-Stone Field) and storage in two locations at Harrison Park so this will allow us to put it all in one bigger location and have it so that we are organised and better maintained," Mr Osborne said.
"It will stream line our normal practices on a Saturday to have everything in the one location instead of having to go and open up three different storage facilities and move equipment around from place to place, everyone can just come to one location and have it all here."
For a number of years Parkes and District Soccer have been wanting to redevelop their club rooms but were limited due to having nowhere to store equipment while renovations would be underway.
"This gives us the opportunity to not only store all of our equipment in a central location but also allows us to move forward with our plans to update and expand our facility."
The shed features a lean-to which also provides the capability of an alternative area for spectators when raining during winter sports and an area for a BBQ.
"It's a great asset moving forward for soccer but obviously the soccer club hosts people here for Elvis so this will also be a benefit for that and other community users throughout the year.
"Other community groups who use Harrison Park for different activities will be able to use the shed as storage or weather protection as well.
"It will help the community here not just soccer", Mr Osborne added.