September 2, 2015
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Three sites identified for Warkworth pool The Campbell Reserve in Glenmore Drive, the Shoesmith Domain below Warkworth Primary School and Dawson Reserve at Snells Beach have been identified as the three most suitable sites for a Warkworth aquatic centre. In a feasibility study prepared for Auckland Council and released to
sports code representatives last month, 11 sites were assessed against nine criteria. The authors of the 46-page $20,000 report, aquatic consultants Watershed, estimate that the facility will cost somewhere between $10.5m and $12.5m to build, and will have an annual operating deficit of more than
$300,000. The report points out that while the lack of a swimming pool in Warkworth has been identified within Council’s recently released Community Facilities Network Plan as a gap, it has not been assessed as a current priority to attract capital funding in the current Long Term Plan.
“This could change if the facility was able to attract external funding from a strategic partner,” the report said. “Regardless of the partnership opportunities, the Rodney Local Board will need to identify various funding strategies to deliver a viable project once a preferred site has been
off the drawing board this month . . .
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9 Falls St • Warkworth
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