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)




    Competitive Motorised Water sports                                    Shooting
    Competitive motorised water sports have limited                       None of the peak shooting organisations (which are
    options for influence and control over facility planning              arranged around disciplines) have a State facilities plan,
    and provision options as they are mostly reliant on                   with the exception being Sporting Shooters Association
    lakes and rivers (with the exception of ocean racing).                (Queensland). The three shooting disciplines that were
    Growth has been experienced in the ownership and                      part of the 2018 Commonwealth Games program have
    registration of personal water craft (jet skis) such that             had upgrades to their State facilities at the Belmont
    they outnumber ownership of sport/ ski boats5. However,               Shooting Complex in Brisbane and generally this facility
    jet ski owners are not necessarily participating in                   serves as the State and SEQ regional facility for those
    competition or racing, just as the majority of water-ski              disciplines.
    and wakeboard users are more likely to be participating
    for recreation rather than competition.                               A number of club facilities exist within the Sunshine
                                                                          Coast and Gympie Council areas. Some of these have
    Water skiing and related sports have indicated that                   potential for further enhancement to accommodate
    they would like to have a competition facility within                 regional competition in specific disciplines. There is a
    the region. However, they acknowledge that none                       strong desire within the sport to develop regional event
    of the existing recreational or club use areas could                  capacity around a limited number of facilities.
    really support competitive use. The exception being
    the commercially operated and constructed facility at                 Prior efforts by GRC to identify a suitable location for
    Quanda Lake (Oz Ski Resort), which is limited to hosting              an integrated competition and club shooting facility
    regional level events in tournament water skiing due to               have been acknowledged by the sports, however the
    the existing lake configuration. .                                    indications are that while a club (local) level shared
                                                                          facility may be possible, identifying a suitable site and
    Regionally, water ski sports competitors have been used               developing a single regional multi-discipline facility
    to travelling within the wider SEQ region for competitive             that can cater for all competition needs is likely to be
    events, with the nearest competition facility at Lake                 extremely difficult.
    Kurwongbah, managed by Seqwater who allow event
    only use of the lake for most ski sports competitions,
    with the exception of jumps competition.




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        This does not include fishing and pleasure craft.


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