Tender out for region’s first synthetic football pitch

Kate McIlwain
Updated October 16 2017 - 5:49pm, first published 5:30pm
A costly goal: Extra lighting, security and drainage requirements have caused cost estimates to upgrade Ian McLennan Park to rise to over $2 million. Picture: Robert Peet.
A costly goal: Extra lighting, security and drainage requirements have caused cost estimates to upgrade Ian McLennan Park to rise to over $2 million. Picture: Robert Peet.

The Illawarra’s first synthetic football pitch is one step closer to getting off the ground, with Wollongong City Council looking for a company to design and build the long-awaited project.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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