The 2025-26 Business Plan (Budget) for Holdfast Bay was approved at the Council Meeting on 22 July.
Apart from co-funding further upgrades to the Brighton and Seacliff Yacht Club the Plan does not include any projects in Seacliff and Kingston Park due to the funding obligations for the Transforming Jetty Road project.
In our Business Plan Submission 5049 Coastal Community listed a number of projects in Seacliff and Kingston Park that we would like to see progressed in the longer term for the benefit of the local community. This includes Stage 2 of the Seacliff Plaza which would include better beach access and beautification of the Plaza, Esplanade and Wheatland St roundabout as per Council’s Draft Masterplan.
Other projects which your committee supports are the installation of fairy lights on the four large palm trees at Seacliff Plaza, Indigenous artwork on the Singleton Bridge in Kingston Park and, in the much longer term, the re-imaging of Brighton Road/Village.
We have encouraged Council to attempt to secure government funding for these projects in the lead up to the 2026 State election.
Alternatively, or in addition, Council could include one or more of these projects in the 2026-27 Business Plan as “additional community projects.”