Caravan park upgrade - Torquay Foreshore Caravan Park
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Learn more about our plans to upgrade Torquay Foreshore Caravan Park.
Background
In early 2009, following several years of planning that resulted in a masterplan being developed to upgrade our caravan parks in Torquay and Lorne, we applied to the State Government seeking approval (in accordance with the Crown Land Reserves Act) to borrow $9m to completely upgrade both parks over a two year period. Although the State Government had previously approved our upgrade plans, our borrowing application was not successful as it was considered inappropriate for GORCC to borrow funds for the full cost of the upgrade (which includes approximately $6m in infrastructure works and $3m in new cabins for the two caravan parks).
Consequently, we have since revised our plans to focus on staging the upgrade works over the next 10 years, instead of the two to three years previously proposed. We intend to achieve this by allocating up to $1 million of our own funds per annum over the next 10 years supported by State Government grants for specific works and borrowings for new cabins.
Upgrade works proposed for 2010
In December 2009, the State Government announced that it would provide $750,000 to fund the first stage of a power upgrade in the Torquay Foreshore Caravan Park. This funding will improve power supply in the bottom half of the park closest to the beach, with a brand new power system to be installed to service some 300 camp sites, including replacement power heads where required, and power upgrades to four amenity blocks and existing cabins. The works will commence in May 2010 and be completed by November 2010.
The second stage to upgrade power to the rest of the park will be completed in 2012 or 2013, depending on funding availability. When complete, the power upgrade will improve power supply, reliability and safety throughout the caravan park, and meet a Powercor requirement to reduce the five current points of power supply in the park to one.
Other upgrade works to be undertaken in 2010 include putting in a new water supply, improving some access roads and installing five new onsite cabins.