San Remo Pre-School gets slice of $2.5M pie

MEMBER for Bass Jordan Crugnale MP announced San Remo Pre-School will share in $2.5 million of Building Blocks Planning grants, with $150,000 of funding allocated to look at options for expansion within and adjacent to the existing site to double the size of the centre. 

San Remo Pre-School has been a community owned and volunteer led pre-school for 50 years, delivering quality kindergarten services to the Bass Coast community. 

The project includes feasibility, liaison with local Council, DEECA for project site, preparation of design and construction documentation ready for future tender/construction. 

The Pre-School was once a single room and after a short move to the current location, the community run centre was able to expand their pre-school services over two rooms, but the centre needs to plan for future growth. 

Committee President Nikole Schellekens said ‘we share our centre with Bass Coast Health Maternal and Child Health service which connects and builds relationships with our local families from birth to 4-year-old kinder, and we greatly value this relationship with the maternal and child health service’.

The planned San Remo Pre-School feasibility - Growing the site is proactively moving San Remo Pre-School towards meeting the current and future demand for more local kindergarten provision. 

As the demand for 30 hours of 3-year-old kindergarten and transition from 4-year-old kinder 
to pre-prep is planned for Bass Coast in 2028, San Remo Pre-School will need to explore how they can increase their services and be ready to meet the needs and expectations of the local community and families. 

Planning funding supports a wide range of essential pre-construction activity like project management, architecture and design planning, soil testing, environmental sustainability assessments and feasibility studies to ensure the best for the local community.