PARC the centre for ongoing problems
PARC - Frankston’s Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre
PARC Frankston’s Peninsula Aquatic Recreation Centre, is just one of Frankston's suite of buildings. But they are of centres for ongoing problems.
In the case of PARC, first it was the water slide, then the plumbing, then parking, and management (not necessarily in that order). But are there any prospective candidates for council asking about or addressing these issues?
Could the water slide issue and other PARC problems have had anything to do with:
- Maybe they had no idea what they were doing?
- Was there insufficient planning
- Was there an issue to do with we want to do it differently to everyone else, and
- We don't care about supporting Australian businesses?
It's a bit hard to believe the circus, but is PARC the only building with problems? No. Just pick one, any building it doesn't matter. Maybe that is an exaggeration, but after you read about the next bit, you might begine to wonder.
The Frankston Yacht Club
The Frankston Yacht Club, built in 2016 but has been mostly empty ever since. How could council let the place stay empty for so long? How much revenue was lost by leaving it empty? What was wrong with the design or fittings that made the building so unattractive to any potential leasee? This is just yet another troubled Frankston site:
So not only has it been virtually empty since 2016, shortly after it was built council realised it was going to cost $100,000 a year to stop the building from turning grey. But that wasn't the only problem. After being empty for four years, late last year it was suddenly realised the cladding on the building was extremely combustible and needed to be replaced. So that incurred another estimated $345,000 on top of a $10.5 million build cost, plus $100,000 or so per year to keep it brown. How much is the rate payer up for now?
Other buildings
There are others troubled buildings for which there are no News Paper articles. For example Karingal Place. Karingal Place has had multiple floodings, roof cave-ins and needed Air conditioning which had to be retro-fitted.
It was discovered after it had been occupied for some time that the floor loading was found insufficient for one of it's designed purposes. The building also didn't have sufficient fire access for one of it's intended purposes. And the Occupancy limit wasn't sufficient for it's intended purpose. The couple I spoke to on this issue told be heaps of stories, but to top it off until very recently the play grounds which were not compliant with regulations.
Consequences
There is no doubt in my mind that there are other buildings with significant problems in Frankston. But in every case I've head about the problems go all the way back to the planning stage and the lack of consultation and lack of thorough planning. The consequences are hefty bills to fix problems for which Rate Payers are forced to pay.
So again you need to ask who was in office when all this happened? What has been done since to stop a repeat of these problems?
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