New landscape plan finalised for seaside parks
Fringed by a grassy beachfront and popular parkland, one of the Sunshine Coast’s seaside suburbs has a new landscape plan to enhance what locals already love.
Fringed by a grassy beachfront and popular parkland, one of the Sunshine Coast’s seaside suburbs has a new landscape plan to enhance what locals already love.
Lions Park and Norrie Job Park, two adjacent parks located off David Low Way, are seaside favourites and provide high quality open space for everyone in our community to enjoy.
This important green space was identified for a freshen up to make it more welcoming and accessible for everyone.
The new Landscape Plan, shaped by extensive community engagement in 2016, 2022 and 2023, has now been finalised.
Most survey respondents were local residents who walked, or ran, to the parks, with many visiting daily.
The design balances nature, recreation and leisure with a range of opportunities for exercise, play and relaxation.
The new landscape plan includes:
- Major drainage upgrade works – installing an underground culvert (a concrete tunnel structure) to improve drainage capacity in the park
- Increasing open green space – reshaping the land previously occupied by the open grassed drain so that it is more usable. This will increase the total useable area of the park by approximately 2000 square metres and link the western and eastern areas of the parks.
- New accessible pedestrian pathway - looping through and connecting all areas of the park.
- New public amenities building (including a PWD toilet and hand washing facilities)
- New picnic and barbecue shelters and seating
- New outdoor exercise stations, drinking fountain and bike racks
- An upgrade to 240 linear metres of the Coastal Pathway – continuation of the three-metre-wide shared pedestrian and cycle path
- New park entry signage, landscaping and shade trees
- An upgrade to the existing beach shower and bus shelter
- Investigations for a potential Pump Track* area for younger people (teenagers and young adults).
Council would like to thank park users, residents, businesses, and visitors for participating in three rounds of community engagement and helping to create a shared landscape plan.
With all stages of community engagement now complete, Council will assess which items can be delivered as part of Stage one works and continue planning and funding investigations for Stage two works.
For more details on community engagement responses please visit council’s Have Your Say website.