minutes - City of Stirling

MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY MEETING OF COUNCIL
18 SEPTEMBER 2012
Background
At its meeting held on 8 February 2011, Council approved a Notice of Motion from Councillor
Robbins (Council Resolution Number 0211/073):-
“That the City’s Officers provide a report by the end of March 2011 into the
Maureen Grierson Centre and the opportunities to refurbish and utilise the centre
as an attraction or multiple attractions to the Scarborough Beach area.”
Background information/Reason for the Motion (provided by Cr Robbins)
"The current state of the centre is a public and tourism “turn off” whilst the façade,
toilets and internals of the centre have been neglected and are open to vandalism. The
centre has massive potential on many levels as a ‘Tourism Centre’ and offer ‘Tourism
WA’ an opportunity to be public at the beach adding to our recent partnership, the upstairs
balconies have potential to provide income streams and public amenity. Indeed
by opening the centre up to tourists, customers or beach users will also provide
passive surveillance which creates opportunity to keep the area and toilets clean and
user friendly. It is not of any benefit to the City in its current form and is an underutilised
potential income stream.”
At that time the City was fully engaged in community consultation regarding the review
Scarborough Beach Urban Design Master Plan and a report could not be prepared within the
timeframe required in the resolution. The purpose of the review was to guide future
development of Scarborough Beach and an outcome from that process was required to
enable City Officers to provide this report. The revised Master Plan was adopted by Council
on 2 August 2011 (Council Resolution Number 811/0113).
The Maureen Grierson Centre was built in 1986 at the same time as the Observation City
Hotel complex was completed and was constructed on the Coastal Reserve Lot 10541, in
Scarborough Beach. The building was provided as a community facility in the Scarborough
area by the hotel developer and has operated as such since that time. The Maureen
Grierson Centre is shown on the following aerial photograph:-
Maureen
Grierson
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