Article – Alisha Evans – Local Democracy ReporterTauranga City Council scraps $105m Memorial Park pool plan, starts new design. Tauranga City Council has spent $4.7 million on plans for an aquatic centre that have now been abandoned. Plans for a new $105m aquatic facility at Tauranga’s Memorial Park were paused by the council last year. The aquatic centre with indoor and outdoor pools would now be built on the site of the current Memorial Park pool. Volleyball Tauranga manager Jenny Kirk said they were “absolutely rapt” and it was a necessity to keep the Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre courts.