From improving park facilities like barbecues, toilets, pathways and picnic tables, to revitalising our piers and jetties or building new parks from scratch, Parks Victoria is delivering upgrades across our urban green spaces to provide more opportunities for communities to unlock the benefits of time spent in nature.
We have over $165 million worth of projects underway across Melbourne, with many already reaching significant milestones in the first few months of 2023. This means that more parks are getting better facilities, so that you can enjoy your time in nature even more.
Read on for a recap of some of the great works happening across our urban parks so far in 2023.
Olinda Precinct Project - Netball and cricket facility upgrades: Works started
Community sporting clubs in the Dandenong Ranges will soon be able to enjoy better facilities and more opportunities to participate in sport, with construction now underway to deliver new and improved netball courts and cricket practice nets at the Olinda Recreation Reserve.
The works will refurbish the existing netball court, and build a new netball court, supporting infrastructure including lights and shelter, and four new cricket practice nets.
The new facilities are part of the Olinda Precinct Project Stage 1, which has been made possible thanks to a $7.6 million investment from the Victoria Government. Subject to on-ground and construction industry conditions, works are expected to be completed by late 2023.
Pictured above: The existing netball court at Olinda Recreation Reserve, which will be refurbished as part of Stage 1 of the Olinda Precinct Project.
Urban Parks Active Wellbeing Program: Works started
Melburnians will soon enjoy improved accessibility and a better visitor experience at their favourite parks, with construction to deliver upgrades at 21 parks across Melbourne construction now underway as part of the $21 million Urban Parks Active Wellbeing Program.
The program will improve parks spanning from Point Cook to the Mornington Peninsula, including new and refurbished picnic shelters and tables, playground equipment, barbecues, signage and toilets, wider and more accessible pathways, and car park and trail repairs. A missing link in the Bay Trail will also be constructed, and the Point Gellibrand seawall will be restored.
