Bailey Reserve parking improvements
approximately 70 additional indented car spaces and a drop-off zone on the Bailey Reserve side of Gardeners Road, Bentleigh East to help alleviate the pressure on the very popular community facilities based Bailey Reserve. (sic, sic, sic)
These additional car parks will ease the pressure caused by the high demand for car parking in Bailey Reserve from residents using the Glen Eira Sports and Aquatic Centre (GESAC) and the extensive sports grounds.
GESAC now has more than 9,000 members and is on target to achieve more than one million visits in its first year of operation. This has made parking scarce for other users of the Reserve facilities and the volunteers who administer the clubs operating from Bailey Pavillion and the Softball Pavillion.
There are currently 355 car parks at Bailey Reserve so the new parking will increase capacity by more than 20 per cent which will assist in alleviating the pressures.
Final design of the new car parking area is underway and once this work is complete, Council will be able to resolve the final number of car parks able to be included on the site and the lead times before construction would be completed. It is expected that works will commence in early February.
Council considered a number of options for improving car parking for Reserve users. Council will be giving ongoing consideration to the possibility of introducing timed parking restrictions on the Bailey Reserve side of East Boundary Road and possible parking opportunities in the East Boundary Road median strip.
COMMENTS
- There are some extraordinary statements here. The bolded paragraph is nothing short of astonishing since it means that councillors voted for something that is not ‘final’; that could change overnight and of course will not come back to council for resolution.
- Next there is the intimation that more car parking sites will “be included on the site’. Where did this come from? It was not part of any resolution.
- Please note that what is missing from this Media Release is the $600,000 cost and whether the poor sods living on Gardener’s Rd were even informed, much less ‘consulted’ about this ‘development’.
- Is it too much to ask that when this council publishes announcements on its website that such announcements are free of errors, typos, and in the end are intelligible – see paragraph one! After all, we imagine that the officer responsible for this website is well paid for his/her efforts unlike ourselves!
Glen Eira Debates 
January 15, 2013 at 3:01 PM
All of this is nowhere near finished. The drip drip erosion of open space is going to go on and heaps more dough spent on car parks. Sporting clubs should start looking for other grounds cos they won’t last long where they are now.
January 15, 2013 at 7:43 PM
Why not try running a City council shuttle bus from the station on an hourly basis. This would be more efficient and definitely a sustainable solution!!!!!
January 16, 2013 at 7:50 AM
Amazing!!!! When it comes to developments car parking requirements are continually waived yet when it comes to GESAC it’s a more is better approach. The arguments used to justify waiving provision of parking in developments are suddenly inappropriate to GESAC – how can this be!!!
January 16, 2013 at 8:13 AM
At one of the last Council Meetings attended by former Cr. Tang he stated that Council knew that GESAC car parking provisions were inadequate during the planning phase and that Council chose not to address the issue.
Council is still not addressing the issue – rather than undertaking a full review of carparking requirements and planning accordingly, Council is adopting a piecemeal approach. The result is expensive, ad hoc, incremental provision of carparking that focuses on GESAC only (forget residents and other park users) and temporarily allieves the situation.