Catholic Church lodges bid to build new childcare centre

The Catholic Church has lodged plans to build a childcare centre alongside a new school in a significant housing development in the region.

PROPOSED: A new childcare centre has been proposed in Parklakes 2. Picture: Cordell Richardson

THE Catholic Church has lodged plans to build a childcare centre alongside a new school in a significant housing development in the region.

Centacare, on behalf of The Corporation of the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane has lodged an application with the Sunshine Coast Council to develop a childcare centre on land at Parklakes Drive, Bli Bli.

The site, in Parklakes 2, is already being developed as a Catholic school set to open next year.

The childcare centre is proposed to take up 2200sq m of the 11.56ha site, with the remainder to become the Good Samaritan Catholic College and associated church.

The proposed childcare centre would provide kindergarten and outside school hours care with 22 children expected to attend the kindergarten and 90 places available for outside school hours care and two staff members.

Early childhood education will be given to kindergarten children to prepare them for prep and the kindergarten would be funded separately to the school.

A large, outdoor play area, kitchen, office, staff and student facilities were proposed as the centre would also have food preparation areas, an activity room, dining room and lounge area for after-school care.

Eight carparking spaces have been proposed and the plans sat within an existing preliminary approval for an ancillary childcare centre.

The Corporation of the Trustees of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane, also known as Catholic Education, Archdiocese of Brisbane and Brisbane Catholic Education, is a large charity registered in 1968 which administered 141 primary, secondary and combined schools within the Archdiocese of Brisbane.