By Bassett Barks and Rocky Point
Walk the Mooloolaba foreshore over the next eighteen months and you will watch one of the region’s biggest public space transformations take shape. Stage two of Sunshine Coast Council’s Mooloolaba Foreshore Revitalisation Project is delivering a new central meeting place and southern seawall, with completion due in March 2027.
Most people will notice the parkland, the paths and the planting.
Fewer will think about what sits under it. Bassett Barks recently worked with a contractor on early works for the project, supplying lightweight podium soil and hoop fines for raised beachside gardens.
Gardens built over a structure cannot carry the weight of a standard soil, so the blend has to hold moisture and feed the plants while keeping the load down, then stand up to salt, wind and full sun.
Work at that scale can call for hundreds of cubic metres of aged mulch and soil blends, delivered in sequence as each stage opens up. Holding that volume, and keeping it consistent from the first load to the last, is the part most people never see.
Based on the Sunshine Coast and supplying the trade here for decades, Bassett Barks was acquired by Rocky Point two years ago.
Rocky Point is a third generation Queensland family business that started in sugar cane and still has the founding family involved today. Its partnership with Hyne Timber secures the pine behind the bark mulches and blends.
“Large projects live or die on consistency,” said Beau Pearson, Market Development Manager for Bulk Landscape across the Rocky Point and Bassett Barks group. “A contractor working to a council program cannot afford a mix that changes between loads, or a delivery that does not turn up.
Between the Sunshine Coast and Woongoolba sites we can blend to specification, meet the Australian Standards for soils and soft fall, and hold the volume these projects run through, whether that is a council park, a school or a civil job.”
As the Sunshine Coast keeps growing, the businesses building it are local too.