WE NEED YOUR HELP! As part of Tweed Shire Councils commitment to provide the community with opportunities to be more active and healthier, Council are developing a new Sport and Active Recreation Strategy. The Sport and Active Recreation Strategy 2023-2033 will provide direction for the planning, development, and management of Tweed Shire’s sport and recreation facilities for the next 10 years, which includes the use of both Koala Beach & BlackRocks sports fields.
Pottsville Beach Football Club are submitting a proposal that will cover the following:
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Increase the size of the playing area (additional 2000m2) to have juniors playing separate to the full size fields, so that competition games can be played at the same time.
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Delivery of two (new) additional changeroom facilities at Koala Beach
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This would meet the needs of two open (adult) women female teams (32 players) along with well over a hundred female juniors. The current female participation growth rate year-on-year is well over 120%. A set of female and a set of male changerooms are urgently required.
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Increase the size of the covered area for spectators at Koala Beach
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Currently space is also used as a changing area due to insufficient changerooms.
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Usually at capacity during championship home games
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Often at capacity after training midweek.
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Even if this space is doubled it would still be significantly smaller than clubs of comparable size on the coast.
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Expand clubroom size at Koala Beach
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Current clubroom space provides little more than an area to sell club merchandise.
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The club should, like other similar sized clubs have a reasonable sized clubroom, to facilitate players and spectators that wish to get out of the elements and sit inside for periods of time and hold necessary club based social events.
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Increase parking capacity around Koala Beach
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In the most feasible way, this doesn’t necessarily need to be sealed, the club merely wishes to have enough parking for our ratepayers to utilise our facilities and not have to walk hundreds of meters and park on curb sides not built for parking.
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Increase & improved parking capacity around Blackrocks
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In the most feasible way, this needs resealing or graveling, as the carpark hasn’t been addressed for many years, the club merely wishes to have more spaces made available behind the mens shed all the way to the croquet fields (if possible)
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If Koala Beach drainage deemed unfeasible
If the council concludes that drainage work is unfeasible at Koala Beach, then the council should provide lighting, clubrooms, changerooms, canteen and undercover areas at Black Rocks suitable for a quickly growing club with over 500 current members.
Our FULL submission is attached, together with the Sport & Active Recreation Strategy & Implementation 2023-2033.
NOW FOR YOUR PART!
Below is a summary that you will be able to copy & paste, as we urge as many members as possible to ALSO submit feedback to Council by 31st May 2024 – YES THATS THIS FRIDAY
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You need to register – https://www.yoursaytweed.com.au/activerecreation/surveys/comments
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Fill out Section 1 (YES to all)
Section 2 – COPY AND PASTE the below in question 20 – We’d love detailed feedback on the draft Strategy. Please share your thoughts here.
As a member of the PBFC community, we feel Football (Soccer) has been completely forgotten in the 10 year plan, with only consideration of 1 new field at Dunloe Park on the Horizon. Given drainage issues are a current issue at Koala Beach, either a suitable solution need to be found to improving the condition of these fields OR moving the facility to Black Rocks with suitable building errected to suit. With a 300% growth rate in women’s soccer after the Women’s World Cup, over the last 3 years, Football in Pottsville is certainly leading community sport, with the highest level of participation from Tweed to Byron.
Section 2 – COPY AND PASTE the below in question 21 – We’d love detailed feedback on the implementation plan. Please share your thoughts here.
URGENTLY address the drainage issue at Koala Beach
– If the council concludes that drainage work is unfeasible at Koala Beach, then the council should provide lighting, clubrooms, changerooms, canteen and undercover areas at Black Rocks suitable for a quickly growing club with over 500 current members.
ADD another 2000m2 to support more games at Koala Beach.
Support delivery of two (new) additional changeroom facilities at Koala Beach
Consider Increasing the size of the covered area for spectators at Koala Beach
Consider Expansion of clubroom size at Koala Beach
Increase & improve parking capacity around both Koala Beach & BlackRocks
Section 2 – COPY AND PASTE the below in question 22 – We’d love general feedback on sports and active recreation in the Tweed. Please share your thoughts here.
In general, too much emphasis is placed on other sporting codes in this region. Football (Soccer), in particular, have over 500 members in 2024. Compare this to AFL for example who only have 17 Junior/Senior Teams vs 50 at PBFC.
The PBFC Committee
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