Kiama Council is removing two light poles at the Kiama Sports Complex for safety reasons.

The Kiama District Sports Association is helping the affected sporting organisations.

Council will be organising replacements as a matter of urgency.

Kiama Sports Complex is one of the town’s most valued and widely used assets, hosting football, netball, cricket, and athletics serving residents as young as four as well as senior citizens.

The Kiama Sporting Complex Workers Group has launched a campaign urging politicians at local, state and federal level to pledge their support for a long-overdue upgrade and modernisation of the site.

They have outlined several major concerns: a cramped 45-year-old clubhouse, dilapidated change rooms and toilets, limited disability access, poor lighting, inadequate field drainage, and unsafe netball courts.

“These deficiencies not only hinder current sporting activities but also prevent us from attracting major sporting events, impacting our community both economically and reputationally,” Ryan McBride, president of the Kiama Junior Football Club, recently told The Bugle.

Newly re-elected Member for Gilmore Fiona Phillips is backing the Kiama Sports Complex Master Plan, which is being developed by Kiama Council.

“Federal funding, through the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program, was utilised by Kiama Council to support the development of the Kiama Sporting Complex Master Plan,” she said.

“Once the project is shovel ready, I will explore and advocate for further federal funding for this important community project.”

The Kiama Sporting Complex Workers Group letter was also addressed to Kiama Mayor Cameron McDonald, CEO Jane Stroud, MP Gareth Ward, Federal Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, and Craig Scott, President of the Kiama District Sporting Association.