MACARTHUR Bowls Club is happy for Moyne Shire to shelve plans for a disability toilet so the club can get a better outcome.
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The council voted to abandon the project after four years and four different designs which had failed to gain agreement from the bowls club and adjoining tennis club.
Macarthur Bowls Club secretary John Bragg said there was a need for a larger toilet facility featuring men’s, women’s and disability access toilets – not just the latter.
The bowls club has no men’s toilets on site and the women's facilities were in need of replacing.
Mr Bragg said the shire’s plans for an all-abilities toilet would “make it impossible” to build a multi-purpose building on the property in the future.
“We’re prepared to pay our fair share,” he said.
“We want to build to what our needs are.
“We’re not trying to bag the shire. But we want more than a standalone disabled toilet. If a standalone disabled toilet goes ahead it will impede future progress.”
The shire had set aside $60,000 for the facility, rolling the amount from one budget to the next since 2014/15.
A further $20,000 was to be contributed by the two clubs, in line with Moyne Shire’s typical requirement for community capital works projects.
However the council voted to walk away from the project “until the Macarthur Bowls Club and Macarthur Tennis Club can come to a shared agreement”.
Mr Bragg said both clubs were in agreeance that there needed to be more than just new disability access toilets built on the site.