The precinct project will create a sporting hub with irrigated sports fields and other facilities to cater for cricket, AFL, netball, soccer and basketball to support educational use during school hours and community use outside of school hours.

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The project will be completed in partnership between Catherine McAuley College, City of Greater Bendigo, Cricket Australia, Cricket Victoria and the state government.

City of Greater Bendigo director health and wellbeing Vicky Mason said working in partnership to deliver the project and sharing the costs reduced the cost to the community and improves the quality of facilities.

"Shared use infrastructure provides facilities that can be actively used every day of the week during and after school hours," she said.

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"The partnership reduces the need for duplication of sports field investment across both education and community sectors.

"It means the city's $5.7 million contribution to both stages of the shared investment will support the college to construct a $24.8M million sporting and community precinct.'

Catherine McAuley College principal Brian Turner said a partnership of this scale was significant.

He said it was a win-win for the college, local sporting groups and the wider community.

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"The new facilities will usher in an exciting new sporting precinct for the college and the Junortoun community and will help to build an engaged, active and healthy community," he said.

"The project would not have been possible without the commitment of the broader Mercy community."

The project will be undertaken in two stages with the first stage including a redevelopment of the lower oval precinct and the construction of an indoor complex/cricket hub.

The redevelopment of the lower oval precinct will include construction of a junior size oval, a minimum size senior oval, two synthetic cricket pitches, two outdoor netball courts, installation of irrigation, access ways, pathways and landscaping, goal posts, training lights, interchange benches and electronic scoreboards to the senior oval.

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The new indoor complex/cricket hub will include community use facilities including local level AFL, Cricket Victoria and Netball Victoria female friendly changerooms and amenities, umpire changerooms, external viewing area, storage areas for sporting user groups and school, social and meeting spaces, first aid room and kitchen/kiosk facilities.

The Cricket Hub area will include six lane cricket training area, access to changerooms and amenities, office administration area, two court stadium and storage space.

The project is expected to be completed by April 2023.

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