Identity
Emphasise the site’s unique character, strengthen its visual identity and prominence to its surrounds.
Sunshine Coast Council has undertaken early planning to improve Jessica Park, Minyama.
This project was initiated in response to the need for a guiding document that addresses council’s long term planning for this site.
Council’s design and placemaking team will carefully assess all feedback and survey results from community enegagement undertaken between 25 November and 12 December 2022.
This will include further design exploration, identifying our community’s priorities, speaking with other council teams as applicable, developing a final plan for presentation to council, and scoping indicative costs so that potential funding opportunities and construction stages can be identified over the following years.
While these improvements are not currently included in council’s 10-year Capital Works Program, community feedback on the plan will help council to determine the priorities for staging improvements and guide future grant applications and/or funding opportunities.
Council will continue to keep our community informed as the project progresses.
Recreation parks are at the heart of the Sunshine Coast’s diverse landscape, lifestyle offering and community.
They provide space for social, recreational and cultural activities. They connect people to nature and provide relief from the built environment. Council owns and maintains a diverse open space network providing green spaces that contribute to the social, environmental and economic health of our region.
This hierarchy of public open space identifies Jessica Park as a large green space destination within the district area. This reinforces the need for a thorough consideration of land use and programming within the park, to ensure that it is able to further develop its identity as a destination and a shared backyard for local residents and the wider community.
Guided by analysis of the park’s current uses, constraints and opportunities, council has developed an initial vision for what the park could look like in the future. These improvements for the park, aim to respond to current sites issues, enhance the overall function and usability of the park, revitalise park amenities and facilities and look to meet the needs of the growing community.
Through the vision, council aims to enhance what people already love about the park and address the challenges currently facing the park.
Some of the opportunities/challenges include:
Community feedback is critical to informing the development of the future of Jessica Park. Improvement ideas and visions for the park will be informed through the project phases below:
Phase one – Ideas: Council has proposed improvments for the park through initial site analysis and investigations.
Phase two – Have your say: Based on council’s improvement ideas, we want to hear your feedback and other ideas that could be incorporated into the vision.
Phase three – Let’s form a plan: The feedback received will be incorporated into a final visionary plan to guide and address council’s long term planning for the site.
The park is well-loved by the local Minyama community as well as by neighbouring precincts.
The below principles consider the park’s unique character, current challenges, the needs of the community, connections, and opportunities offered by the site’s natural features and location. These principles have shaped the ideas for the site:
Emphasise the site’s unique character, strengthen its visual identity and prominence to its surrounds.
Balance the strong natural character of the site between usable open space and functionality within the park.
Enhance connections into and within the site to link the community to its active and communal spaces.
Create a park that is accessible and safe for visitors of all ages. Maximise crime prevention through design and opportunities for active and passive surveillance.
Click on the icons on the plan below to reveal more information about each of the proposed ideas.
Please note this plan is to communicate possible ideas for this phase of consultation and is subject to further investigations, detailed design and available funding.
Below are a handful of the key areas that form some of the ideas proposed as part of reimagined Jessica Park.
This project was initiated in response to the need for a guiding document that addresses council’s long-term planning for this site.
These documents include:
The above Improvement Ideas Plan and artistic sketches show how the park could look in the future. Council invites you to share your feedback on the plan via survey.
When considering your feedback please consider each question carefully to help identify your priorities for the park upgrade, given the project will most likely be progressed in stages and as funding becomes available.
Complete the online survey by clicking on the survey tab at the top of this page.
Once you have completed the survey please use the Ideas Board below to share your ideas for improvements for Jessica Park.
Your ideas will be posted publicly providing the opportunity for others to vote on each idea.
What is your idea?
12 December, 2022
Sarah says:
Rather than adding a kiosk, make it easier to find/access the wonderful cafe located just on the edge of the park, Antiquated.
12 December, 2022
Stephanie says:
Maintain pond but do something about overpowering smell it creates. No need for kiosk as coffee shop backs on to the park. Upgrade amenities
11 December, 2022
Larry says:
A basketball court for the older kids.
9 December, 2022
Donald says:
I think separate play areas for little kids and big kids is a great idea, as is expanding the existing sporting facilities.
8 December, 2022
Brendan says:
Wheelchair accessible playground and equipment. Accessible toilets with change table and incontinence waste bins.
7 December, 2022
ric says:
leave it alone just fix pond eliminate cane toads and put in good reticulation system to aerate water .
7 December, 2022
Betty says:
Leave Jessica Park as a natural bush habitat for birds and wildlife, I enjoy the quietness there.
1 December, 2022
LDiva says:
Leave parkland as parkland; Nearby businesses already offer food & drinks; No kiosk or business space to be added, just update amenities
29 November, 2022
Clare Caple says:
Leave it as it is, my granddaughter loves this park for its natural appeal, the litle Bridge, the turkeys, maybe a toilet and table upgrade
29 November, 2022
Nature says:
Timber & play equipment,water pumps with bridges,rock pools,concrete tunnels,large statues, community garden.Look @ Roma Street Parklands!
27 November, 2022
V King says:
The pond is a breeding ground for Cane toads, which causes infestations to local businesses (ie daycare).
Please consider using toad traps!
25 November, 2022
Kurt Niesler says:
we would like a skate park or bike tracks put into the park
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