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Thumbs up for Boyd Park

Thumbs up for Boyd Park
Sean Car

The City of Melbourne is to be applauded for its Boyd Park concept plan.

City of Melbourne councillors endorsed the final concept on March 6 and construction of Southbank’s long-awaited community space will now finally commence in July.

Council’s project team, led by Steve Perumal, Victoria Evans and Lewis Wright, is to be congratulated for designing a brilliant concept that truly reflects the interests of the local community.

Following the release of the draft concept plan in November, plans to install a basketball court out the front of the Boyd Community Hub were not received well by the community.

Missing from the plan was a space for the thriving Southbank Sustainability Group to continue its wonderful community garden and members of the group made their feelings known to the project team.

While acknowledging that bureaucratic difficulties in establishing a community garden, Steve Perumal and his team listened, put their heads together and came up with a brilliant solution.

Gone is the basketball court; enter a brand new community garden out the front of Boyd for the Sustainability Group!

The basketball court will now be installed at the Kings Way undercroft as part of the City Rd master plan, while a dog park is being proposed for the unused space next to the tram stop on Moray St.

Southbank Residents’ Association president Tony Penna said the final design was a “brilliant outcome” for the community and we have to agree!

To view the full plans visit participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/boydpark

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