We are excited to be working on the next stage of the Morrison Reserve Youth Activation and Bike Park project! We've heard your thoughts on the Youth Activation spaces, along with the bike park elements and look forward to presenting designs soon!

Over the years there have been several informal bike jumps, tracks and trails created in Yarra Ranges. During the pandemic we also saw an increase in these structures being created, which not only raises some safety concerns but can also have a negative effect on the biodiversity of the local environment.

In 2021 we undertook a 5-week Bike Park consultation with over 2000 responses and 390 comments from the community. The findings showed a keen interest from the community for increasing formal bike infrastructure around Yarra Ranges. Morrison Reserve was identified as a spot for building a new bike park for a few reasons:

• The available open space is an uncommon opportunity in the district to create a bike facility.
• The location is accessible to the surrounding communities in Wandin, Montrose, Kalorama, Lilydale, Silvan, Kilsyth and Seville.
• The reserve's landscape is an excellent building block for an all-ability bike park that considers the existing environment.

These facilities will give the community more localised and suitable bike infrastructure to support participation and promote a healthy and active community.

This project has been successful in receiving funding to proceed to the design and construction stage.

A design consultant was engaged from May 2024 and has commenced work on developing the concept design.

Further community consultation will occur throughout the design phase to help us finalise plans, follow this page to stay updated

Thanks for all of your feedback on what you'd love to see in this space! Our team is now working on the concept design, bringing together everything we've heard.

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