Bluey’s Beach Village Survey - Concept Designs

Blueys Beach Village Centre — Your Say on the Upgrade
Something is happening at our village centre, and your voice matters.
MidCoast Council has commissioned two concept design options for the renewal of the Bluey’s Beach village commercial centre on Boomerang Drive. The plans — prepared by landscape architects New Eden Design with planning consultants Barker Ryan Stewart — propose improvements to parking, pedestrian safety, public seating and gathering spaces, streetscape planting, and village identity. Both options share a design language rooted in the coastal character of Bluey’s Beach. They differ on three specific features, and those differences involve real trade-offs that the community should have a say in.
At the same time, the adjacent Addenbrook residential development will bring a new road connection, a new roundabout at the Boomerang Drive intersection, and a new commercial building close to the existing shops. This makes the timing of Council's village upgrade particularly important — decisions made now will shape how our village centre looks, feels, and functions for decades.
The PPCA is coordinating a collective community submission to Council, on both concept options, without specifying a PPCA organisational preference. To make that submission as representative and evidence-based as possible, we are asking all community members — residents, regular visitors, business owners, and property owners — to share their views through this short survey.
The survey covers:
• Your level of support for the design features that both options share
• Your preferences on the three features that genuinely differ between Option 1 and Option 2
• Which trade-offs you find acceptable — and which you don't
• Any observations from your own experience of parking, pedestrian safety, or village character that the submission should include
The survey takes approximately 8–10 minutes. All responses are anonymous. Results will be compiled and reported to Council as part of the PPCA collective submission, alongside guidance to help individual community members make their own submissions, if they wish.