Budget delivers more than $50M for infrastructure projects

Published on 30 June 2025

Picture of a road resurfacing operation

Noosa Council’s 2025/26 Capital Works Program includes more than $50 million worth of new infrastructure renewals and upgrades, with popular community facilities in the spotlight.

Noosa Aquatic Centre will receive more than $2.7 million in upgrades to its filtration systems and other key infrastructure across the facility.

“The NAC welcomes more than 245,000 visitors through the doors every year,” Mayor Frank Wilkie said.

“It’s produced numerous Olympians and more than 30,000 people rely on the NAC’s programs to learn vital water safety skills each year making it such an important community asset. This  investment will help ensure the NAC continues to serve our community well for another 25 years.”

Council will spend $1.2 million plus a further $1.2 million in grant funding to upgrade the Wahpunga and Woondum Trails – a key deliverable of the Noosa Trail Network Master Plan.

“This year’s investment will provide upgrades and drainage improvements along more than 15 kilometres of trail including up to  8.9 km of trail realignment to build on our earlier trail network upgrades,” Cr Wilkie said.

The capital program includes expansion of the Cooroy Sports Complex gymnasium, more than $5.59 million allocated to road resealing projects, a further half a million dollars for gravel road resheeting, plus almost $9 million to renew Tewantin’s Doonella Bridge.

“This is the biggest single project we’ll tackle this year and it’s a crucial one,” Mayor Wilkie said.

“Carrying around 20,000 vehicle crossings a day, Doonella Bridge is a vital connector, and after more than 55 years it’s due for major rehabilitation work, which I am pleased to confirm we’ll undertake this year.”

As well as big-ticket projects, the capital program features a host of smaller upgrades and improvement projects set to deliver big community benefits.

“Often it’s the little projects like playground and park shelter upgrades that deliver the most benefit to local residents,” Cr Wilkie said.

“We will invest more than $250,000 for park furniture renewals, replace barbecues and maintain park shelters, , and invest almost $270,000 to replace Cooran’s Pioneer Park playground.”

A further $260,000 will be spent revitalising the shire’s other playgrounds, plus various path and cycling way projects outlined in Council’s Walking and Cycling Strategy.

Other highlights include a further $64,000 to improve and renew the beach showers across the shire.

There’s $313,000 set aside to begin a two-year exterior refurbishment at The J to replace decking and a shelter roof at the entrance to the venue.

Council’s $51 million capital program will be delivered alongside ongoing disaster recovery works funded by the Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA), including about $4 million worth of work arising from the recent Western Queensland Surface Trough rainfall event.

“The renewal and repair of our existing facilities and public infrastructure is a big focus of the Capital Works Program this year to make sure these assets serve our community well into the future.”

Capital Works Program highlights:
  • $8.923 million – Doonella Bridge renewal
  • $5.59 million - Road reseal program
  • $2.7 million - Noosa Aquatic Centre equipment upgrades
  • $2.2 million – Noosa Trail Network upgrades
  • $1.9 million – Cooroy affordable and social housing project site prep and subdivision 
  • $1 million - Noosa Coastal Pathway Stage 1 Cycle Street and way-finding signage project 
  • $850,000 – Shire-wide pathway renewals and  upgrades
  • $313,000 – Start of a two-year minor exterior refurbishment of The J, Noosa Junction
  • $237,500 – Park furniture and shelter renewals
  • $270,000 – Renewal of Pioneer Park, Cooran, playground
  • $100,000 – Main Beach seawall renewal detailed design
  • $95,940 – Stan Topper Park, Pomona, amenities block renewal
  • $93,600 – Moorindil Street, Tewantin, amenities block renewal
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