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Did you know that Glen Eira has the lowest amount of open space within any Victorian municipality? That's why we manage parks to balance the need of all community users — all while providing high quality facilities with a diverse array of opportunities.
We are guided by our Open Space Strategy, which further informs the Masterplans that provide direction and structural guidance on the future developments within our larger reserves.
Our Open Space Strategy guides the future planning, provision, design and management of public open space in Glen Eira. This includes understanding and addressing the open space needs of the existing community and planning ahead to anticipate and meet the open space needs of the forecast population within the municipality.
The Open Space Strategy Refresh 2020 was adopted by Council in June 2020. This is a refresh of the 2014 Open Space Strategy and addresses the:
In addition, it updates relationships with new Council Strategy and Policy, presents a revised mapping of catchment areas and considers learnings from the implementation of the 2014 Open Space Strategy. To discover more about our plans for open space, access a copy of the Open Space Strategy Refresh 2020 (PDF 27Mb).
The Fair Access Policy and Action Plan support our commitment to providing opportunities for everyone to participate in community sport and active recreation.
The Policy works to eliminate gender inequality and create a fairer playing field to make community sport and recreation safe, accessible and inclusive — for everyone — from players, coaches, and administrators to volunteers, spectators and officials.
The Action Plan identifies specific actions to progress gender equity in community sport through policy, governance, programs, communications, and delivery of services. It involves Council and sporting clubs working together and outlines specific actions for both Council and clubs to deliver.
Download a copy of the Fair Access Policy (PDF)
Download a copy of the Fair Access Action Plan (PDF)
Council endorsed the Glen Eira Planning for Play on 23 September 2021. Planning for Play is a guide to creating quality playgrounds in Glen Eira. We developed the guide in consultation with the community and allows you to understand:
We often associate play with children, but play is actually important across the entire life span. It’s how we play that changes over time. Playgrounds are important for their great play features, but also for:
We commit to providing play spaces that are:
Read more about Planning for Play — a guide to creating quality playgrounds in Glen Eira (PDF)
In 2031, do you know how many football players will be playing in Glen Eira, how many lacrosse fields will be required in Glen Eira or what new or modified sports will need facilities? GET Active establishes a framework to guide Council’s future provision and management of sporting and recreation facilities.
GET Active focuses on the importance of sport and active recreation, now and in the future, and contains information on:
To find out more read our GET Active — Future of Sport and Active Recreation (PDF)
The GET Active report indicated that many of us are looking to ‘get active’ by participating in informal or social active recreation activities. Whilst sportsgrounds provide for sports clubs and can accommodate some level of active recreation, we have found it increasingly important to provide facilities that allow for individual and game play. These include tennis hit up walls, golf birdie cages, basketball and netball rings, bouldering walls, skate parks and table tennis tables.
You will already find many of these spread around Glen Eira parks and reserves, and the Active Recreation Action Plan further provides:
Read more about the future of active recreation in Glen Eira — Active Recreation Action Plan (PDF 6Mb)
On 25 July 2017, Council endorsed the Pavilion Redevelopment Strategy, a document that provides a clear and equitable framework for prioritising investment into pavilion upgrades and redevelopments.
The Strategy provides an overview of:
Read our Pavilion Redevelopment Strategy (PDF)
Council prepared and adopted a Tennis Strategy on 27 November 2018, providing clear and pragmatic actions towards improving the long-term sustainability of clubs, increasing participation and creating vibrant local clubs. The Strategy directly relates to:
Read our Tennis Strategy (PDF)
Glen Eira’s urban forest is the sum of all trees, understorey, shrubs and ground covers and grasses across the municipality — public and private. The urban forest is supported by soil, water and nutrients and provides a wealth of benefits ranging from:
Guided by our Vision and supported by direction provided in Living Melbourne: Our Metropolitan Urban Forest, the Urban Forest Strategy sets out the following five action areas to enable and inspire our whole community to better protect and strengthen our natural assets:
To find our more read our Urban Forest Strategy (PDF 12Mb) and the Urban Forest Strategy Implementation Plan (PDF 725Kb)
We have developed Masterplans for a number of our parks and reserves, as part of a commitment to upgrade ageing infrastructure and provide future focus for our open space. Consideration is given to how parks function as a whole, and how different elements combine to best provide for our ever-changing and growing community. These may include, but are not limited to:
The development of our Masterplans involve extensive community consultation and give us clear direction for the future development and management of our parks.
The refreshed Caulfield Park Masterplan, endorsed by Council on 2 July 2019, reviewed actions implemented from the 2001 Caulfield Park Masterplan and identified new actions for the future vision of Caulfield Park.
Caulfield Park is the most popular open space in Glen Eira, with areas of botanical significance, active sports facilities and recreational play spaces. The Caulfield Park Masterplan provides the vision to:
We adopted the Duncan Mackinnon Reserve Masterplan (PDF, 3MB) in April 2002, and designed areas of the masterplan in further detail in 2017. Completed actions include construction of additional netball courts and shelters.
Recommendations included, but weren't limited to:
Find out more about the facilities at Duncan Mackinnon Reserve.
We adopted the EE Gunn Reserve Masterplan (PDF, 1MB) on 5 September 2017. We have implemented it in stages since its adoption and will continue to do so as funding becomes available. Some of the actions already completed include reinstating the eastern sportsground, building a new golf birdie cage and installing a new synthetic cricket wicket.
Further recommendations included, but weren't limited to:
Find out more about the facilities at EE Gunn Reserve.
The Hopetoun Gardens Landscape Masterplan was adopted by Council on 16 October 2019. The masterplan was designed to reinforce the heritage and formal layout of the park.
Key recommendations included:
The Lord Reserve and Koornang Park Masterplan was adopted by Council on 25 June 2019.
The vision for this Masterplan is to celebrate the existing unique character and features of the two parks, whilst uniting them as a single coherent space to meet the future needs of the community.
The Masterplan has been guided by the following principles:
Key actions of the Masterplan include:
The Mackie Road Reserve Masterplan was adopted by Council on 28 June 2022. The Masterplan provides a balance between the aspiration of organised sport and leased facilities with the broader provision of informal recreation and flexible green space.
Key features of the Masterplan include:
Murrumbeena Park is one of Glen Eira’s largest parks, featuring two sportsgrounds, a large nature based play space, a modified basketball court, shelters and picnic facilities, a pavilion and a bowling club.
The Murrumbeena Park Masterplan was adopted by Council on 3 September 2019. This Masterplan provided an update from the original masterplan developed in 2002, and incorporates the location of the future Murrumbeena Community Hub.
This Masterplan identifies how the existing and future infrastructure will integrate to create a sustainable and community oriented public space — now and into the future — including:
The refreshed Outer Circle Railway Landscape Management Plan, endorsed by Council on 19 March 2019, provided an update to the existing 2004 Landscape Management Plan.
The Landscape Management Plan addresses the significant changes made to the southern boundaries of Boyd Park and Riley Reserve through the Caulfield to Dandenong grade separation project. Areas that once adjoined a fenced rail corridor become activated through a newly created linear park, and this Plan sees the connections, access and function of these spaces change dramatically.
Additionally, the Melbourne Water project to duplicate drainage pipes has seen major disruptions to the environment at Riley Reserve, Springthorpe Gardens and the central area of Boyd Park.
Some of the matters the Landscape Management Plan addresses includes:
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