2018-10-09 Services & Organisation Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   9 OCTOBER 2018




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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                               9 OCTOBER 2018

         Regional Facilities Plan for Difficult to Locate Sports (Consultation Draft - August 2018)

              1.5     FINDINGS FROM CONSULTATION

             The four difficult to locate sports have current access  Aviation Sports
             to local opportunities or facilities catering for varying Aviation groups indicated that the National and State
             levels of recreation and competition. The exception      associations do not have a role in facility planning. They
             being motorised water sports, where the options are      identified that there are a number of local groups with
             limited mostly to recreation uses on a lake and some     facilities. Some of these have limited certainty around
             river sections. No club-managed competitive facilities | longer term occupation and some had aspirations for
            exist.                                                    improving their facility. There are current plans for
                                                                      national/ international events to be conducted within
             Participation levels across the four sports within the   the study area, which suggest that there is a strong
             scope of the study are static or increasing slightly.    justification for regional facility planning and provision.
                                                                      A number of regional aerodromes within the study area
             In the main, local clubs and groups are satisfied to very are important as bases for launching and landing for
             satisfied with the standard, provision and location of   —_ultra-lights, parachuting and gliding.
             their current facilities, with lease/ tenure uncertainty
             and minor upgrades regarded as the main area of          Motor cycling sports
             attention needed to increase satisfaction levels. Very   Discussions with the peak body for motor cycling sport
             few of these existing local facilities have the attributes indicated that their facility planning and development
             that lend themselves to expansion in order to provide a __ focus has shifted over recent years to place a higher
             regional level of service. For some activities, providing __ priority on recreational facilities (as opposed to a previ-
             a single regional facility that meets all competition    ous focus on competition). A key SEQ regional facility
             needs is extremely difficult. For example, the range of  for both competition and recreation was developed at
             shooting disciplines creates a complex mix of siteneeds | Wyaralong (in Scenic Rim Regional Council) and is man-
             for a regional facility. This means that a more feasible aged by the peak body (Motorcycling Queensland) who
             strategy may be to provide for different disciplines at  also observed that a number of private facilities are in
             different regional Level sites.                          use and more are in development. Given this shift in
                                                                      focus, a state facility plan has not been prepared and
             Previous facility investigations and planning for these  guidance on regional facility needs and priorities for
             activities have identified a number of challenges in     the study area was offered. Discussions with sporting
             determining a viable and accepted solution for regional  _—_clubs in the study area identified that an existing club
             level facilities due to spatial requirements, safetyneeds managed facility on the Sunshine Coast has developed
             and the difficulty of managing or mitigating impacts on _ its infrastructure and reputation for hosting regional
             surrounding land uses.                                   and higher-level competition events in motocross. This
                                                                      facility was seen by users as the priority for retention
             Discussions with respective State level organisations    and enhancement, but it has an uncertain future due to
             for the four sports indicated that State level facility  tenure issues.
             planning for each the four sports has not been
             completed. This is because some of these organisations
             have not had a focus on regional and/ or state facility
             planning. All State level organisations supported the
             need for further facility planning within the study area
             and subsequently provided information that has been
             incorporated in the formulation of facility options,
             standards of service, facility specifications and plan
             recommendations.

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