The masterplan process is to holistically plan the future improvements to Mahoney’s Reserve for the next 10-15 years.

The Master Plan will set the vision and direction of the park by understanding and responding to the needs of our changing and growing community.

The reserve is 9.8 hectares of open space. This offers a variety of sporting and recreational opportunities such as soccer, cricket, badminton, table tennis, walking, dog off-lead area and play.

The Master Plan will include the entire site as highlighted in the image below.

An open space master plan is an overarching planning document, which includes a visual layout of shows the physical improvements of the open space over the long term, usually covering a timeframe of about 10-15 years into the future.

It seeks to balance and integrate the various elements of the open space to optimise health and wellbeing l, environmental and economic outcomes.

The Master Plan will include a visual plan for the site, outlining the key recommendations to be implemented. This could include an upgrade of existing infrastructure such as play space or oval, introduction of a new element or repurposing of an existing facility or component.

A detailed report will accompany the Master Plan, which will outline existing conditions, demographics, consultation undertaken, issues and opportunities for the site and an action plan with recommendations with priorities and a timeframe for development.

The Master Plan process will consider all facilities within the park including the three buildings, play space, sports fields, path network, carpark and landscape and all other facilities in a holistic manner.

The draft Masterplan will make recommendations on improvements of the park layout and facilities and prioritise recommended actions over the next 15 years.

Redevelopment of the northern pavilion is included on Council’s current 10-Year Capital Works Program. The exact timeframe of redevelopment is not confirmed and will be subject to the Masterplan recommendations.

Local sports clubs (including table tennis and badminton clubs) will remain using the northern pavilion until a decision is made on the pavilion design, which will occur once the Master Plan is completed.

There was previous communication that a new pavilion will be built which would include some sport clubs. This communication unfortunately did not include all sports clubs which use the pavilion space. We apologise for this oversight. It is something that is now top of mind for Council teams in planning any future consultation for the Mahoney’s Reserve Masterplan. All clubs will be consulted with in the future for any proposed changes to the pavilion.

No works are currently proposed for the southern pavilion and scout hall.

No changes will be made until the Masterplan consultation and design is complete.

• We commenced consultation on the concept design of the northern pavilion in March – April 2022. This consultation received over 450 community responses.
• In 2022, we held two stakeholder meeting with Council project managers and representatives from user groups for the northern and southern pavilions and the scout hall.
• In November 2023, we informed the key stakeholders (key tenants of Mahoney’s Reserve) about the Master Plan process by email.
• We also had informal communications with all key tenants in person or by phone.
• Peak bodies, leagues and associations have also been informed by email.

During the month of March 2024 meetings/interviews with each key stakeholder will be undertaken. The aim of this phase of consultation to gain a good insight to how the group use the site, what works well and could be improved.

There is no definitive timeline to commence works at Mahoney’s Reserve at this point of time.

The Master Plan report will include a 15-year Implementation Plan that has a list of recommended actions/projects with priority of high (1-5 years), medium (6-10 years) and low (11-15 years).

Once the masterplan is endorsed by Council, we can start to embed the high priority projects into Council’s 10-year Capital Works program.