2020-01-13 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                    13 JANUARY 2020


     The needs across various sports and recreation users, including current and future tenants;
     Emerging trends and issues;
     Catchment areas and population demographic demands (present and future);
     Car parking and traffic movement/management requirements;
     Relevant planning constraints and opportunities including environmental, flood immunity,
       land zonings, DA requirements etc;
     Current and proposed tenure arrangements;
     Opportunities for sustainable facility outcomes;
     The realities of the economic, social, environmental and legislative context of the time; and
     Grant opportunities for the implementation and funding of recommendations.

The aim of the Master Plan is to provide a long term vision for the Complex, identifying what the
site should look like and how it should function into the future. The Master Plan considers the 10
year period from 2020-2030 and guides the future sports infrastructure development and
investment both by Council and the clubs through grant applications or club capital investments.

2    Initial Consultation

Initial consultation with key stakeholders was undertaken from December 2018 to August 2019.
The following table provides a summary of this consultation.

Date                   Consultation method      Key stakeholders               Details
                                                engaged
Dec 2018 – April       User Group Surveys       All recognised groups that     Provided current
2019                                            have formal tenure within      membership and facility
                                                the Plans’ scope area          usage, identified
                                                                               underutilised areas.
Dec 2018 – April       Phone interviews with    All state level                Provided sports trends
2019                   relevant state level     organisations (SLOs) of        analysis and any identified
                       sporting organisations   sporting groups located at     projects, trends within a
                       (SLOs) and review of     either sports complex          SLO strategic context
                       their strategic and
                       infrastructure plans
Dec 2018 – August      Consultation with        Internal Council staff from:   Initial and scoping meeting
2019                   internal Council         Community Services           with consultant.
                       departments              Infrastructure Services      Presentation of the
                                                Environment and              situation analysis (results of
                                                  Sustainable                  club survey, literature
                                                  Development                  review and SLO
                                                Corporate Services           consultation) by consultant
                                                                               to staff.
                                                                               Presentation of Draft
                                                                               Report and Plan prior to
                                                                               user group input.
                                                                               Presentation of Draft Plan
                                                                               and Report for feedback
                                                                               after user group input.
                                                                               Staff have provided
                                                                               feedback on draft plans
                                                                               and reports.
May– August 2019       Face to face             All recognised groups that     Two site specific
                       consultation with user   have formal tenure with        workshops with user
                       groups                   the Plan scope area            groups to discuss outcome
                                                                               of situational analysis,
                                                                               preliminary and draft plans
                                                                               and reports



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