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Green light for Jubilee Park expansion Dogs let off the leash
Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au
A NEAR $35 million redevelopment of Jubilee Park is set to proceed after Frankston Council agreed to put an additional $9.74 million into the project. The works on the facility are set to include six multi-purpose indoor courts, including a 1,000 seat show court. It will also include four indoor cricket training nets, women’s change rooms, a creche, a cafe, and meeting and function rooms. Council had been lobbying for extra funding from the federal government, but eventually made the call to finish financing the project through Frankston ratepayers. The mayor Michael O’Reilly said “while it’s disappointing this important project didn’t receive the full federal funding it needed and deserved, council is excited to get the ball rolling on what will be an exceptional sporting facility for locals and the region.” “With netball and basketball such popular sports in Frankston City, particularly for young girls and women, this important project will deliver a regional facility suitable for everyone wanting to play as well as pathways for elite training and competitions,” he said. “Our $20.34 million contribution to build appropriate facilities at Jubilee Park demonstrates council’s commitment to increasing activity and health across the community generally as well as supporting our
Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au
Jubilant: Young netballers and athletes celebrate the announcement of a near $35 million expansion of the
Jubilee Park sporting facility. Picture: Supplied
$4.5 million. Frankston District Netball Association member Kelly Andrews said “this investment finally gives us a home for elite netball in the area after 15 years of searching as far as Cheltenham for a suitable facility.” Netball Victoria’s Amanda Basue said “we’re delighted to see this
rising sports stars in Frankston City and I’m delighted we can achieve this with all three levels of government working together.” Council allocated just over $20 million in ratepayer funding to the project, while the state government provided $10 million and the federal government provided just over
investment from council, state and federal governments to deliver a new home for the Peninsula Waves and netball across the region”. Construction is expected to start in early 2021 and be finished by 2023. More information at frankston.vic.gov.au/JubileeParkIndoorStadium
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A DEDICATED off-leash dog area is set to open at Telopea Reserve, Frankston North. Frankston councillors voted at their last ordinary meeting to commit $70,000 in ratepayer money towards a 3750 square metre dedicated off-leash area for dogs with “signage, a multi use drinking tap, a dog bag dispenser, a solar light, a park bench, and table.” Cr Kris Bolam, who moved the motion, said that the decision to create a new offleash space reflected safety concerns from people who had been walking their dogs at Pat Rollo Reserve in Frankston North. “It is the view from a number of people that people can’t walk dogs in that area,” he said. The mayor Michael O’Reilly supported the move “for the sake of separating two groups and seeing how it goes.” “If this is successful it could be rolled out in the rest of the city,” he said. Crs Brian Cunial and Quinn McCormack opposed the move. Cr Cunial said that he did not believe that the construction of a new off-leash space was “going to make the area any safer”. Cr McCormack said she did not think it is “incumbent of council to provide offleash areas.” She said “there are 33 offleash areas [in the municipality], I don’t want to see $70,000 put towards one.” Councillors directed the CEO to find funding for the new area in the present budget.
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Frankston Times
8 October 2019
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