2019-03-12 S&O Agenda - Item 6 - Attachment 1 - Regional Facilities Plan for Difficult to Locate Sports

                       Regional Facilities Plan for Difficult to Locate Sports (including Implementation Priorities) (Final Draft – February 2019)




   sports study for Sunshine Coast has identified a                           10. Motor cycling trails on private land adjacent to
   future motor sport and driver education facility in                            Conondale Memorial Recreation Reserve and
   the Inter Urban Break (IUB) south of Caloundra. The                            the facilities under the control of the club are
   acquisition of land in the IUB has been confirmed in                           recommended as the potential regional facility for
   the recently approved Environment and Liveability                              trails, trials and enduro disciplines and the Sunshine
   Strategy (SCC).                                                                Coast Motorcycle Club is supported to deliver the
ӹӹ Previous planning for difficult to locate sports has                           approved development and improvements to their
   identified the need for Councils’ planning schemes                             facility.
   to recognise the importance of these uses and the                          11. Further facility development to accommodate
   difficulty of finding new sites.  Displacement due to                          recreational riding as well as longer distance trail
   urban expansion is a concern and there is a need                               competition events will continue to be problematic.
   for schemes to incorporate appropriate planning                                Investigations into a potential “Northern
   protection for significant sites.                                              SEQ” recreational riding site should remain a
                                                                                  responsibility of the State government, Councils
3.2.2 Recommendations for Motor cycling                                           and potential private interests. Identification of
      sports                                                                      a potential mixed tenure route for event (permit)
8. Continue short-medium term operation of the                                    purposes only, requires a dedicated study that is
    Coolum Pines Motocross facility while Economic                                warranted when such an event is proposed and
    Development Qld (EDQ) continues to support the                                the study should be driven by the sport or event
    Suncoast Junior Motorcycle Club by offering tenure                            proponent.
    until the land is required for development for                            12. Motor cycle road racing needs would not, on their
    appropriate industrial purposes. During this period,                          own, warrant a new road (motor cycle) facility to
    and while the Coolum Pines motocross facility                                 service the study area. The recommended long-
    remains, it should be considered the regional                                 term approach is to include race track capability at
    facility.                                                                     the proposed motor sports precinct planned10 for
9. Continue to investigate alternative sites for the                              the Inter-urban Break. In the short to medium term
    development of a regional motocross facility that                             supplement the available capacity of Lakeside with
    is minimum 40ha (including relocation of Suncoast                             potential shared use of the Cooloola Coast Kart Club
    Junior Motorcycle Club); sites within or adjacent to                          go-kart tracks for junior motor cycle road racing.
    the Inter-urban Break could prove suitable.




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     As identified in the Sunshine Coast DTL plan and Environment and Liveability Strategy (ELS)



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