2020-07-07 S&O Agenda - Item 1 - Attachment 1 - Go Noosa Initiatives Evaluation

Other sustainable modes of transport such as public transport and walking and cycling will
continue to be encouraged as will Hide and Ride.”

As with previous years, Noosa Heads car parking capacity is still greater than 85% occupancy
which typically indicates intervention is required.




Graph 3: Noosa Heads Parking

Feedback:

Feedback from bus drivers was that the temporary bus stop opposite The J was very popular.
Anecdotal and observational feedback was that the Noosa AFL ground car park was
underutilised. This may be due to people making use of “Hide & Ride” and other sites being
more convenient.

Value for money:

The use of Park & Ride sites is a necessary component for encouraging drivers to not enter
the Hastings Street area and instead use public transport. As described above a number of
sites are utilised to provide adequate opportunity to Park & Ride in addition to the car parking
around Noosa Heads.

As described below in Item 6 - Lions Park, an additional Park & Ride site at the Noosa AFL
ground was required to counter the expected demand for parking due to the loss of Lions Park
for car parking. The Noosa AFL grounds has parking capacity for approximately 500 vehicles.
To enable use as a Park & Ride site a contract was entered with the Noosa AFL club from 14
December 2019 to 27 January 2020 for a fee of $3,000.

DNRME subsequently provided approval and in turn the full use and value for money of the
Noosa AFL grounds was not realised as evidence by only 16 cars being counted on the 3rd
January 2020. The use of this site will be reviewed ahead of the future report to Council.


Areas for improvement:

   •   Review contract for use of the Noosa AFL ground car park