Aquatic Feasibility Study
The period for public comments on the Bass Coast Aquatic Feasibility Study has now finished. Thank you to the 620 people who completed the feedback forms and 42 submissions received as part of the consultation. A report focusing on Aquatics in Bass Coast was tabled at Council's Ordinary Meeting on 27 July, 2011.
Following this meeting, Bass Coast Shire Council’s Community and Economic Director, Steven Piasente, said the decision around the Aquatic Centre in Wonthaggi was made in the context of providing aquatic facilities for the whole Shire. “The report highlighted the need for improved facilities across the Shire. It made a number of recommendations which were all carried,” said Mr Piasente.
“The first recommendation was to adopt the Feasibility Study for the Wonthaggi centre, which recommends an upgrade to the facility. “The report recommended providing a bigger pool than suggested in the original proposal. We now have more work to do to look at the design, staging and funding of this project,” explained Mr Piasente.
Council also agreed to the request by the Phillip Island Aquatic Centre Fund Committee to work in partnership with them. “Council will establish a working group including the Mayor, Cr Dowman, Cr Duscher and Cr Paul to look at how we can provide aquatic facilities on Phillip Island,” said Mr Piasente. “This working group will need to develop a long term vision and explore what we can do in the short term to provide improved facilities on the Island.”
The final recommendation was to continue to support the Bass Valley community to open the school pool facilities to the public, outside of school hours.
If you would like to view the Feasibility Study please see the links below. As the study is 120 pages long it has been broken down into two sections:
You can also download a summary of the Feasibility Study (466 kb), and a summary of the feedback is also available (PDF 60kb).
If you would like to discuss the Study please contact our Recreation Planner, Ella Angarane, on 1300 BCOAST (226 278) or email basscoast@basscoast.vic.gov.au