Wonthaggi croquet pavilion on the way

IT’S one down and two to go when it comes to the three Bass Coast sports projects funded in June 2021 through a $1.78 million grant from the State Government’s Community Sports Infrastructure Stimulus Program.

Last Friday, October 7, Bass MP Jordan Crugnale opened the $600,000 Phillip Island Croquet Club pavilion.

Earlier last week, recently appointed builders, TS Constructions started work on the $870,000 pavilion for Wonthaggi Tennis Club at Wonthaggi Recreation Reserve.

And soon we’ll see a new pavilion for the Wonthaggi Croquet Club also underway.

Speaking at the opening of the Phillip Island club’s new facility, Wonthaggi croquet vice president Tom Lacey said the club had gone out for tenders which close on October 19.

“The SRV grant was in the order of $480,000 but we’ve still got to add the club’s money and council’s funding to that,” Mr Lacey said.

But he acknowledged it was encouraging to see the other projects in the same funding program on the go.

The three pavilions were part of a successful bid for $5.5 million from the SRV stimulus program for new lighting at the Cowes, Dalyston and Inverloch recreation reserves and a six-kilometre path linking Corinella to Bass Valley Primary School, via Tenby Point, one of Council’s top 10 advocacy priorities.