Creating a New Aquatic and Leisure Centre for Kingston

We’re excited to be planning a new, high quality aquatic and leisure centre to help support the health and wellbeing of our community.

The new aquatic and leisure centre will be built adjacent to Jack Grut Reserve on Governor Road in Mordialloc.

The creation of a new aquatic and leisure centre which is contemporary, accessible for all, and meets current standards is a significant project and investment for Council.

The project is expected to take around five years to complete.

To read more about the project's history and the key milestones achieved, please scroll to our news feed at the bottom of this page.

What’s next

You can see the full project timeline under the Lifecycle section of this page. We’ll continue to keep you up to date with the project as it progresses. The next stage of consultation on the concept design is expected to open in early-mid 2023.

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Community Reference Group Appointed

Earlier this year we invited the community to register their interest to be part of the Community Reference Group (CRG) to help shape important decisions we need to make, to deliver our new Aquatic & Leisure Centre. We received over 148 responses – thank you to everyone who expressed their interest!

People who registered their interest were stratified based on a set of demographic criteria plus their experiences, perspectives and backgrounds.

Twenty-five reference group members were then selected by an external consultant (Deliberately Engaging) to ensure a representative sample of typical users of an aquatic and leisure facility were selected. View the CRG profile below or summarised in our infographic

The CRG will learn about all sorts of factors associated with developing a new aquatic and leisure centre, discuss them with one another, and then offer feedback to help guide Council’s decision-making process.

We look forward to sharing updates and highlights of upcoming CRG meetings with our community. Check out our first video showcasing some of the drivers for why they put their hand up for the challenge and what they are hoping to achieve.