NOOSA AQUATICS CENTRE UPGRADE PLAN AND NOOSA AQUATICS FACILITIES STRATEGIC PLAN · Attachment 2 Noosa Aquatic Facilities Strategic Plan 2026-2036

   Aquatic Facilities Strategic Plan
          Vision              Community input has shaped this                         Our Guiding                    Key strategic options and
                                         strategic plan                                Principles                          undertakings

    Safe, inclusive and      What the community said they want                          Accessible        This strategic plan outlines our commitment to:
    dynamic aquatic           ● Welcoming, inclusive, well-maintained and fit                              ● Deliver, support and advocate accessibility and
    facilities that foster      for purpose aquatic facilities                                                 inclusion improvements across the Shire’s aquatic
    connection, vitality                                                                Diversified
                              ● Dynamic programming and retention of learn-                                    facilities
    and active lifestyles
                                to-swim programs                                                           ●   Deliver and support programming that reflects
    in Noosa.                                                                           Well-Maintained
                              ● Council support for third party lessees of state                               Noosa’s demographic profile, expanding
                                school pools                                                                   opportunities for seniors, people with disabilities and
                              ● Environmentally and financially sustainable             Future Proofed         rehabilitation users, while sustaining learn-to-swim
                                pools                                                                          participation and also catering to high-performance
                                                                                                               pathway development for talented local swimmers
                             What we identified through research                                           ●   Optimise community access and utilisation by
                              ● Noosa’s aquatic facilities are ageing, in line with                            implementing coordinated programming across the
                                 national trends                                                               NAC and school pools to relieve capacity pressure
                              ● Noosa Council exercises control over relatively                                and enhance equitable access
                                 few aquatic facilities in the Shire                                       ●   Embed environmental and financial sustainability in
                              ● Councils across Australia are struggling with the                              all future aquatic facility upgrades
                                need to maintain, upgrade or replace aquatic                               ●   Strengthen data and governance frameworks through
                                facilities, and also with supporting the annual                                consistent performance reporting, periodic strategy
                                operating deficits of those facilities                                         reviews and an aquatic workforce development plan
                              ● Aquatic facilities have become multifaceted                                ●   Investigate new water-play opportunities across the
                                hubs of community activity, incorporating                                      shire to meet community demand for accessible
                                diverse infrastructure to cater for broad                                      family recreation
                                community use                                                              ●   Deliver staged upgrades at the NAC in line with the
                              ● Noosa Shire’s population is ageing and will                                    NAC Upgrade Plan and Prioritised Implementation
                                grow slowly over the next 20 years, with the                                   Plan, maintaining its role as the Shire’s primary
                                prevalence of disability amongst residents set                                 facility and securing legacy benefits linked to
                                to increase. Accessibility and inclusion will be                               Brisbane 2032
                                important considerations in future aquatic                                 ●   Support and sustain DoE pools through tripartite
                                facility developments                                                          Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) and
                                                                                                               increased lessee support

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