By KATH GANNAWAY
IDEAS are emerging for the transformation of the Warburton Recreation Precinct.
A Reporting Back to Community Workshop to be held on Wednesday 27 April will expand on some of the key ideas to date, including junior and older children’s play areas, water play parks, an outdoor cinema and purpose court area, community kitchen or pizza oven and teenage market and journey and destination ideas.
When the six-month campaign to gather ideas for the redevelopment of the land adjacent to the caravan park was launched in December last year, the community group formed to steer it through said the possibilities were endless.
“We have an amazing parcel of land there and we need to do something with it,” Jeff Gill, Warburton Advancement League representative on the committee, said at the time.
“We want to get ideas from people who are interested in seeing what is currently and eyesore into something that will provide a fantastic space for local people and that will make people want to come to Warburton,” he said.
The committee wanted the ideas to come from families, kids, youth and other people in the community and through a number of community engagement sessions held in the street, at schools and at community events over the past four months, the ideas have evolved.
The workshop, to be held at the Warburton Mechanics Institute Hall from 7pm to 9pm, will be hosted by O’Shannassy Ward representative Cr Jim Child and run by WRP committee members with support from Yarra Ranges Council staff.
It will include progress reports and rotating discussion groups on key project ideas, along with the opportunity to vote on those ideas.
For more information contact Jeff Gill 0437 095 327, Kate Barrett 5966 5392 or Rod Barnard on 5966 2320.
