January 14, 2014
Centenary Park: Before & After
Posted by gleneira under Councillor Performance, GE Open Space, GE Service Performance[8] Comments
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January 14, 2014 at 5:24 PM
And now we will wait an eternity for the site to turn into a sea of bitumen. Our Councillor group are a sad lot and continue to be railroaded into false promises. Our ‘Green’ Mayor has sap on his hands!
January 14, 2014 at 9:57 PM
A “sea of bitumen” thats got the price tag of 500,000 and then another couple of million for a glorified change room and showers. I call that real economies of scale.
January 14, 2014 at 9:59 PM
Please note that the cost of the car park is estimated at $600,000!
January 14, 2014 at 11:34 PM
And while all this “planned” work (gotta keep to the outdated pavilion building schedule regardless of changes in demographics) is going on costs will escalated as basic planning flaws appear (oops we need to move the ovals or we need to provide some previously never considered buffer zones: a la the recent Caulfield Park experience), we wait over 15 years for vegetation to begin to resemble what it is now. It really is time that residents began to question how many opportunities to acquire additional open space will be lost forever to strata tile high rises. Why is it much better to spend millions on continually “tweeking” existing parkland that Council acknowledges inadequately provides for the current need rather than striking on a balance between acquiring additional parkland to meet current and future needs while adequately maintaining existing parkland.
My take on this is that Council is hell bent on winning another award for parkland excellence which looks good in the Glen Eira News but ignores the fact that the per capita open space ratio drops (already the lowest in metro Melbourne and less than half the average for metro Melbourne). Shame that the awards it wins never balance quantity of open space vs. millions spent on maintenance of particular (not all) parks. And an even bigger shame that Councillors are content also ignore it..
January 15, 2014 at 6:53 AM
Off topic but I see our former mayor got his bonce in todays Herald Sun in the online opinion section.
January 15, 2014 at 9:14 AM
What a discussing act of vadalism supported by all our councilors, except Cr. Lobo. Remember this next time you vote.
January 18, 2014 at 1:39 PM
environmental rapists
January 20, 2014 at 8:06 PM
I refer to the Aerial Over Lay Site Plan Archives. The same amount of Open Space is retained, it is just in a more practical area, adjacent to the BBQs, Toilets and playground. I seem to be a little confused with this thread. I can’t tell if it’s the money being spent or the open space supposedly being lost.