Parramatta. Stadium master plan

Parramatta City Council has given in-principle support to the draft master plan for the Parramatta Stadium, which includes a 500-seat function room and catering for 600 more corporate patrons in corporate boxes, in the eastern stand, and the installation of 3300 seats on the earth mounds, at the north and south of the stadium. This will bring the total public capacity of the venue to 31,300.

Blacktown. Possible 41,000-seat stadium

The NSW government has entered a series of confidential agreements for the biggest upgrade of sporting facilities since the Olympic Games that will take effect if Australia wins its bid to host the football World Cup, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. The government has negotiated cost-sharing principles with the federal government under which it will help fund a new $270 million soccer stadium at Blacktown and upgrades at three other stadiums. The biggest cost will be to a 41,000-seat stadium, at Blacktown, where the Olympic baseball fields were built.

Parramatta. More events at Parramatta Stadium

The Parramatta Stadium Trust has council approval to use the stadium and its immediate surrounds for events including concerts, music festivals, cultural events, and children’s carnivals. The trust’s request for a motorcross event to be held once a year has been refused.

Parramatta Stadium application referred

Parramatta City Council has referred until July 14 an application by the Parramatta Stadium Trust for the use of the stadium and its immediate surrounds for various additional events, including concerts, music festivals, cultural festivals, children’s carnivals and motorcross events

More than sport at Parramatta Stadium

The Parramatta Stadium Trust proposes to attract to the stadium, a key sporting and recreational venue in Sydney, activities other than sport, such as, concerts, music festivals, cultural festivals, children’s carnivals and motorcross events. In days long gone by the site was used for horse racing, as a speedway and for boxing matches