May 2020 UPDATE: Coffs Coast Regional Sports Hub Stage 2

Email to Stakeholders:

By way of an update on the Regional Sports Hub Stage 2 project, a number of exciting things are starting to happen onsite, and we would like to keep you in the loop.

Above is a reference map to help navigate the various areas of the project.

A) Firstly, we have broken ground with the commencement of the new Turf Field.

NuTurf Australia Pty Ltd are leading this component of the project. At this stage the field location has been surveyed, with clearing and levelling taking place at the moment. In the near future, irrigation and drainage will be installed and capped with sand until the weather warms sufficiently to grow grass. In August we expect to complete the work with the final layer of top soil, sand and turf. Depending on the rate of grass growth, we hope this field to be ready for play after turf establishment expected in January 2021.

B)Extension of the existing amenity block between Leisure Park 1 & 2. We are pleased to advise that Lianda Constructions have been awarded the contract for the extensions. Construction will start on June 10, and expected to be complete in October 2020.

Steve Case (Project Manager) and Andrew Knott (Owner) from Lianda onsite (Below).

Final Plans (Below)

C) Connecting the Coffs Coast Sport and Leisure Park, with the Coffs Harbour Education Campus and the Coffs Harbour Health Campus; shared pathways are all complete, now linking these three key assets of sport, health and education together for pedestrians.

Above: Footpath running from Stadium Drive into the Leisure Park precinct

Above: construction of pedestrian refuge on Hogbin Drive (now complete)

Above: Footpath and pedestrian island for safer pedestrian crossing on Stadium Drive.

D) Synthetic fields are now in the final stages of design. Thank you to all that have contributed to the development of these plans. We will distribute the final plans shortly before they go to tender next month.

E) New Change Room Plans (to service the new Synthetic and Turf fields) are also in the final stages of design. Thank you to all that have contributed to the development of these plans and as above, we will distribute the final plans shortly before they go tender next month.

In addition to the above updates, we are also close to finalising the civil details (roads and carparks), and the lighting contract has been awarded to Allan Kneale Electrical, who will install the sport lighting across both the turf and synthetic fields.

If you have any questions regarding the project, please feel free to reach out. We will be sharing the final plans for the synthetic fields, and new change rooms as soon as they are available.