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)

             » Previous planning for difficult to locate sports      9. Should there be no prospect of resolving the tenure
                has identified the need for Councils’ planning           and proposed industrial use of the land, investigate
                schemes to recognise the impact of these uses            alternative suitable options
                and to, therefore, incorporate appropriate scheme    10. Motor cycling trails on private land adjacent to
               amendments or protection for significant sites.           Conondale    Memorial   Recreation   Reserve  and
                Specific unresolved recommendations from previous        the facilities under the control of the club are
                planning included the investigation and advocacy         recommended as the potential regional facility for
               for motor sports site/s. This study concluded that       trails, trials and enduro disciplines and the Sunshine
               the current motocross use at Coolum Pines facility        Coast Motorcycle Club is supported to deliver the
                is not incompatible with high impact industrial uses     approved development and improvements to this
                and that finding an alternative location would be        facility.
                difficult, possibly more so than finding additional  11. Further  facility development    to  accommodate
                industrial land.                                         recreational riding as well as longer distance trail
                                                                         competition events will continue to be problematic.
             3.2.2   Recommendations for Motor cycling                   Investigations   into   a    potential  “Northern
                     sports                                              SEQ” recreational riding site should     remain a
             7. The preferred option for a     regional motocross        responsibility of the state government and is not
                 competition facility is to retain and upgrade the       considered further in this study. Identification of
                 Coolum Pines Motocross facility, this facility has      a potential mixed tenure route for event (permit)
                 unresolved long-term tenure due to the current          purposes only requires a dedicated study that is
                 state government preferred use of the land for high     warranted when such an event is proposed and
                 impact industrial use.                                  the study should be driven by the sport or event
             8. The adoption of the Coolum Pines Motocross site as       proponent.
                 the regional facility requires negotiation with the 12. Motor cycle road racing needs would not, on their
                 Queensland Government to confirm the regional           own, warrant a new road (motor cycle) facility to
                 importance of this facility and the need to transfer    service the study area. The recommended long-
                 the land to SCC to manage the lease and ongoing         term approach is to include race track capability
                 sport use. This would allow for Suncoast Junior         at the proposed motor sports precinct planned? for
                 Motorcycle Club Inc to gain a lease that can be         the Inter-urban Break. In the short to medium term
                 renewed into the future and for investment to be        supplement the available capacity of Lakeside with
                 planned. As this recommendation is inconsistent         potential shared use of the go-kart tracks at Mothar
                 with SCC’s endorsed Environment and Liveability         Mountain for junior motor cycle road racing.
                 Strategy (ELS),a policy amendment will be required
                 if transfer of this land to Council proceeds.

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             * As identified in the Sunshine Coast DTL plan and discussed in the Background Report.

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