Tuggerah: Mariners’ Centre of Excellence Hotel bid before 2023 Women’s World Cup
The Mariners have lodged an application to fast track a 126-room, 10-storey hotel at Tuggerah in time to host teams in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
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The Central Coast Mariners have lodged two development applications (DA) to try and get a 126-room hotel built at the club’s Centre of Excellence in time for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
One DA is for the four-star hotel itself, while the second is to shuffle its previously approved staged development of the entire site, bringing forward the accommodation stage and changing it’s location.
“It is important to note that timing is crucial for the development of the hotel which is required to be operational by the 2023 Soccer World Cup,” the DA states.
“The Mariners Football Club will be hosting some of the visiting women’s teams for (the) world cup and the hotel is required to provide accommodation.”
As part of the hotel development the Mariners will need to do to interim works to the intersection of Ibis and Wyong roads to include a left-in, left-out access to Wyong Rd to service the hotel only.
Once the hotel is built the Mariners intend to finish the intersection works to include a two-way access road to link Ibis Rd with the rest of the site.
The plans have been in the wings for many years prior to the opening of the Centre of Excellence in 2016, with the administration building and health services, futsal courts, tournament field and indoor pool already complete.
Following the hotel, the Mariners have plans for a convention centre and 8000sq m office building with a childcare centre and gym.
The DAs come after the Mariners released a fly-through video of the club’s proposed plans in April when the club sought to buy vacant land from Central Coast Council, which it hopes to use for the hotel as a bushland buffer from Wyong Rd.
Plans for the 126-room, 10 storey hotel include a restaurant and rooftop bar.
“The works under each stage were approved under the original application and the environmental impacts remain unchanged,” the DA states.
“It is the location of the accommodation facility that has changed. The timing is similar to that previously approved where the accommodation building was to be developed after the sporting and office administration uses. The hotel is now proposed as Stage 4 with the interim intersection to be completed prior to the completion of the hotel.”
A Mariners spokesman said the club was not in talks to host any nation in particular but the intention was to have one visiting international women’s team based on the Central Coast.
It will be a tight window for the club to have the hotel plans approved, built and operational ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup which kicks off from July 20, 2023.
But the Mariners Centre of Excellence would be well placed to host nations in the 32-team competition with its training facilities and proximity to Stadium Australia and the Sydney Football Stadium, where pool matches and the final will be played.
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