Applause greeted the Ballarat City Council's green light for the plan at a council meeting last night.

Ballarat City Council sustainability executive manager Ian Rossiter told the meeting a key component of the plan, a netball court, could be built to a playable standard by the middle of this season.

The Redan Football and Netball Club has pushed for a court to be built at the reserve for more than a decade.

President Andrew Madden said the club was extremely pleased with the outcome.

"It sort of puts a full stop to a lot of work that a lot of people have done over a long time," Mr Madden said.

He said the club had been told the court playing surface could be up to netball association standards by July.

The overhaul of the site will also provide a new home for the Ballarat Football Association Umpires Association.

Under the plan, the association will move from its present home at Saxon House across the oval to the former Croquet Club curator's residence.

Other key components of the plan will see the replacement of the oval's corrugated iron fence and a new brick toilet block on the Pleasant St side of the ground.