See below the youtube link with Ivan Vicelich that has been put up by the local board – please click thumbs down and make a comment if you like about how you feel about this. Is it right for this course to be chopped up to accommodate a non-existent need for soccer fields? Please send this out to others to comment…it would be great if we could swamp this with at the very least more thumbs down than likes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDWpwsyRa04 Here are the FACTS 1 – Sports field Capacity. Council commissioned research (Longdill 2014) found that Auckland Region demand for sports fields in 2014 was 7.3 Full Field Equivalent Hours Per Week (FFE HPW) (Longdill 2014 p 17) for every 1,000 residents in the active age group (5 to 49) which comprised 60.1% of Auckland’s total population. This means sand carpeted sports fields, which are capable of hosting 20 HPW, can each meet demand from 4,500 residents. As there are approximately 105,000 residents in Albert-Eden around 24 sand carpet fields are needed in Albert-Eden to satisfy current demand. Happily, there are 32 fields in Albert-Eden so current demand can be easily satisfied by utilising existing fields. Population increases predicted during the Unitary Plan process can be accommodated by sand carpeting all 32 fields, which would satisfy the demand from a population of 145,000. Further population increases could be accommodated by installing hybrid on as many sand carpet fields as required to accommodate demand from the increased population. Each hybrid can accommodate demand from a population of around 8,000 residents. 32 hybrid fields would accommodate demand from 256,000 residents. (Confirmation from RIMU pending!)