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Waves won’t be moved By Justin Flynn Surfside Waves Soccer Club will not endorse the City of Greater Geelong’s Ocean Grove Sporting Infrastructure Plan (OGSIP) until council provides written proof that the club will be better off. The plan recommends the club move from its current base at Shell Road sports precinct to a new facility at Oakdene. However, the club is concerned that a number of requirements it has put forward to council have not been addressed. The plan proposes the current soccer pitches be turned into another football ground for use by Ocean Grove Football Netball Club and for the netball precinct to increase from four courts to five.
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Community feedback is a central and important part of the development
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- Robyn Stevens Surfside Waves initially “verbally” agreed to the proposals, but only if the move saw a “significant improvement” on its current facilities at Shell Road. “These improvements would need to include two to three pitches with room to grow, extensive storage facilities, industrial kitchen, players and referees rooms, larger car parking and access to overflow pitches in the form of the current Oakdene Oval,” the club said in a statement. “As such, we have put together a list of our requirements that have been largely promised to us by council. “In recent weeks we have been working hard to get council to agree to these requirements in writing. The reason that this aspect is so important is because there is no master plan drafted yet for the club and its members to refer to. “So far SWSC has received an unsigned document detailing the scope of works and including a caveat that we do not need to
Surfside Waves president Mike Sutton at his club’s current home base at Shell Road Reserve.
move to the new facilities until this facility is complete and we, as the club, have ‘signed off’ on it. “SWSC has requested additions to this document and, as it stands right now, we have not received any. “These plans are reliant on SWSC agreeing to the move to the new facility. The fact
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that there is no master plan and no signed agreement with SWSC, means that we cannot endorse the current OGSIP.” Public consultation for the OGSIP, which also includes Arthur Powell Reserve, Collendina Reserve, Wallington Reserve and Memorial Reserve, ended on July 10. City of Greater Geelong community life
director Robyn Stevens said council will now consider the community feedback. “Community feedback is a central and important part of the development of the Ocean Grove Sporting Infrastructure Plan,” she said. ■
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