The $6.3 million overhaul of Wodonga's Birallee Park has been approved.
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The revamp aims to provide a "quality multi-sport and recreation facility" and join the existing sporting facilities into one hub.
The park will ultimately boast being "home to the city's only" BMX track, regional cricket centre training facility, an outdoor netball complex and fields for cricket, hockey and football.
The football netball club and cricket club will benefit from an upgraded scoreboard, an expansion of the main pavilion, change rooms and canteen and an additional netball courts under lights.
The regional cricket centre, originally costed at $1.3 million, will feature a new indoor and outdoor training facility, including six turf and four synthetic outdoor nets and storage facilities.
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A shared pavilion will be built to cater for spectators of the upgraded BMX track and hockey facilities.
A "central recreation node" will feature a multi-use wall and play space, formal planting, seating and viewing points and built in between the cricket oval and hockey field.
Mayor Anna Speedie said it was important for the council to continue to upgrade existing facilities.
"The council of the time set up these masterplans before Baranduda Fields was in the works and I remember talking to the minister at the time and we were the only council already looking to update what we already had," she said.
"And what that allowed us to do was to then set up about the future needs as well and have a better understanding.
"There has been some significant changes put in here compared to the draft to both plans and it is good to see them included.
"Nobody expects everything to happen next year but this allows us to plan out future budgets."
The Kelly Park masterplan was also adopted at the council meeting on Monday.
The vision for the precinct is to "provide a premier venue for regular tennis tournaments, quality facilities for cricket, croquet, netball and soccer and an attractive recreation setting for locals and visitors".
It will include 10 lit plexipave tennis courts, 20 grass courts, tennis pavilion, netball pavilion, nine lit bitumen netball courts, croquet area, two lit soccer fields and one turf cricket wicket.
The Kelly Park upgrades are expected to cost $2.7 million.
Both masterplans can be viewed on council website.
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