A much-loved, 1930s-era art deco swimming pavilion in Redcliffe will be demolished following a year-long fight to save it. 

An independent engineering report on the condition of Suttons Beach Pavilion has found water damage and exposure to the bayside elements have caused irreparable damage.

Moreton Bay Mayor Peter Flannery said there was “no way of even undertaking rectification works” without removing much of the building.

Jodie Starr, the president of Save Suttons Beach Pavilion, says she doesn’t believe all hope is lost.

But she says they will support a new pavilion for the community.

“I understand that the building is a lot worse than all of us wanted to believe, but the council have committed to building us a new pavilion,” she told Neil Breen.

“I am a realist, and so is the committee that I work with, if we can’t restore the beautiful building [then we get a new one].”

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Locals first banded together in January last year when Moreton Bay Regional Council announced plans to raze the building over fears of structural defects.

They now hope for a like-for-like replacement for the building, or that “whatever is built there does reflect the old pavilion in some way”, Laurel said on 4BC Breakfast.

Gary Clare: “A facade, or make it sort of look the same?”

Laurel Edwards: “I don’t even know whether that can be saved. I guess that’s up to the report that was done.

“But maybe the architecture can be similar.”

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Image: Suttons Beach Pavilion Preservation Group INC. / Facebook