2018-04-26 Special Meeting Agenda

SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA   26 APRIL 2018




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SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA                                                                      26 APRIL 2018

                                         Submission 2 (continued)

     The Noosa Park Strategy 2006, which Council commissioned and endorsed, surveyed sporting
     facilities in ‘Locality 5’ (Pomona and District) and stated that:
        -   The area of sport parks in Locality 5 is well below performance standards in 2005, and will
            worsen by 2016. (Refer page 75.)
        -   The area for indoor sport and recreation facilities in Locality 5 is just above performance
            standards in 2005, and will drop below in 2016.
     Having been advised in 2006 that land devoted to sports facilities at Pomona was ‘well below
    performance standards’, Noosa Council does not plan to rectify the problem until up to 20 years beyond
    when this ‘unacceptable’ notification was delivered in an official report. Likewise, there is a need for
    indoor sport and recreation facilities at Pomona; the current facilities having dropped below
    performance standards in 2016, based upon the 2005 projections and population growth data.
    The Noosa Park Strategy 2006 also recommended that Level 1 play facilities be incorporated into
    Cunningham Park at Pomona. That project appears to have fallen off Council’s radar. Will it be re-
    introduced to the forward works schedule?
    The situation at Pomona regarding a lack of sporting facilities (ovals and indoor facilities) is
    exacerbated by the fact that the one single sportsground in the town is devoted exclusively to the local
    AFL football club. Of course, not all sportspersons at Pomona wish to play AFL football, so they must
    travel outside the town to access Soccer and Rugby League grounds, or a cricket pitch. For children, it is
    impossible for them to ride their bicycle to Cooran or Cooroy, where these facilities are located.
    The future sporting needs of Pomona, first identified by Council in 1993, remains unfulfilled in 2018
    and it is proposed not to finish addressing them until 2026. That is a timeframe of 33 years. Thirty-
    three years.
    I request that Noosa Council brings forward to 2020 a start on its $5.1 million plan for upgraded
    sporting facilities at Pomona — ovals and indoor sports amenities — within the LGIP under the proposed
    amendments to The Noosa Plan; and complete those works in a three-year timeframe (2020-21 to
    2022-2023). Such an objective is achievable, I submit, within the context and timeframes of the Noosa
    Plan Review.

    Yours sincerely

    12 April 2018

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