An online community forum highlighting concept plans for Kingscliff Central Park reaches its midway point this weekend, with many community members taking the opportunity to have their say.
The month-long forum, at www.yoursaytweed.com.au/kingscliffpark, has revealed a wide variety of opinions and will be conducted by Tweed Shire Council until April 12.
Council’s Senior Design Engineer, Warren Boyd, said while the forum had attracted a large number of comments, it was important to focus on the primary focus of this forum and the overall community
engagement campaign.
“This is really about fine-tuning the design of Kingscliff Central Park, to ensure it contains the features and facilities the community wants,” Mr Boyd said.
“A previous round of public consultation in 2007, to create the Kingscliff Foreshore Master Plan, identified what the community wanted at each section of the town’s foreshore. There was clear-cut support for a reduction in the size of the Kingscliff Beach Holiday Park and the creation of a community park in the land it vacated.
“The online forum and other initiatives in the current engagement campaign aims to take planning to the next stage, to decide what will go in that Central Park.”
Mr Boyd said the foreshore master plan mapped out a staged upgrade of the whole Kingscliff foreshore from Cudgen Creek to the Kingscliff North Holiday Park.
“It specifically identifies the site between the Cudgen Headland Surf Life Saving Club and Kingscliff Beach Club for the Central Park, which will serve as a community hub and strategic link between the beach and Kingscliff’s central business district,”
he said.
Rain did not stop more than 40 people from attending a Kingscliff Central Park community information stall, held at the NSW Surf Life Saving Championships in Kingscliff on Saturday, March 19.
Mr Boyd said the stall generated a lot of constructive discussion about Kingscliff Central Park.
“Many of the visitors to the stall were very positive about the concept of Central Park. However, there were a lot of valuable comments about possible changes to fine-tune the park design,” he said.
