Disgusting, substandard changing room facilities are a barrier to participation in sport for girls and women, regional Victorian netball clubs say.

The Victorian government requires all councils to have policies around providing gender equitable access to community sport infrastructure, by July this year, and for change rooms to be available from October.

But one week out from the start of the Riddells Creek Football Netball League season, netball players at the Kyneton Football Netball Club are getting changed in a mouldy room in a sheep pavilion, with no hot water or showers.

"We get changed in a sheep pavilion, which doubles as our storage shed," said KFNC Netball Director Loryn Savoia.

Football players at Kyneton have access to change rooms with showers and hot water in the grandstand complex.

For netballers, there is a plastered room with toilets and a sink next to the dirt floor in the sheep pavilion.

"We can't even provide people with hot water to wash their hands."

"I can't encourage anyone to come into those rooms to get changed because they're putrid."

Council hoping to start works this year

The state government announced funding in 2022 for new courts and change rooms for Kyneton netballers.

But the upgrade has been delayed due to a dispute in the Victorian and Civil Administrative Tribunal over trees that would be cut down.

The Macedon Ranges Shire Council said it was working through the dispute as quickly as possible.

"We will have a better idea of construction timelines and next steps once this is resolved with VCAT," a spokesperson said.

'Absolutely the worst'

Federal Nationals MP for Nicholls Sam Birrell described the issue of poor or no netball facilities as "widespread" across regional Victoria.

Netball Victoria said it was about to embark on an audit of all facilities around the state.

The Murchison-Toolamba football and netball club, in northern Victoria, believes it has the dubious title of the the worst netball facilities in the state.

"It looks like a medieval field with straw houses," parent and former netballer Shae Garvey said.

After 10 years at the club, Ms Garvey is considering leaving.

"I have a 12-year-old daughter who plays at the club and she doesn't have a safe space to get dressed. She feels uncomfortable, she feels scared.

"If we can't get help, the club's going to shut down."

The local council, Shepparton City, says it can't apply for funding to build better facilities as it doesn't own the land the club operates on.

The land is managed by the Victorian Environment Department (DEECA).

Policies to enforce fair access to facilities

Netball Victoria has 117,000 registered netball participants playing across 1,000 facilities and said it is about to embark on an audit of the quality of those facilities.

"A lot of them are old, a lot of them require upgrading and in particularly growth areas of Melbourne and regional cities we're really short on courts," Netball Victoria's Allana Sharman said.