Looking After Yarra Ranges: January Minor Works

Published on 12 February 2025

Rankins Road, Monbulk drainage outfall upgrade (Chandler Ward).

Photo: Rankins Road, Monbulk drainage outfall upgrade (Chandler Ward).

Our crews have been busy across Yarra Ranges, making our community spaces better every day!

From refreshing parks to fixing footpaths, we're committed to creating spaces you love.

 

Recently completed Minor Works

Melba Ward

Melba Ward

  • Lilydale Recreation Reserve 2nd Oval new synthetic cricket pitch installed. 

  • Shadowplay Reserve playspace maintenance. 

  • Five Ways/Manchester Rd/Hull Rd weed spraying and litter pick up with traffic control. 

  • Green St Mooroolbark additional off‐street parking area constructed. 

  • Lilydale LXRP garden beds handed over to YRC for maintenance. 

  • Cnr John St/William St East Lilydale LXRP site clean up, garden bed maintenance and grass seeding.  

Walling Ward

Walling Ward

  • 6 Yeaman Rd Montrose concrete bays replaced. 

  • Elizabeth Bridge Playspace maintenance. 

  • Pinks Reserve Netball Pavilion roof safety works.  

Lyster Ward

Lyster Ward

  • Belgrave RAB (Terrys Av side) rock wall re‐mortar. 

  • Tecoma Main Street deep clean of footpath and weed removal. 

  • Burwood Hwy Upwey (in front of high school) footpath renewal and retaining wall installation. 

  • William Rd The Patch drainage renewal of open drain with concrete treatment. 

  • 23 Reserve Rd Belgrave Road repair. 

  • Belgrave Lake Park garden bed mulch top up. 

  • Johns Hill Reserve garden bed mulch top up. 

  • School Rd Menzies Creek gravel footpath upgrade. 

  • Birdsland Reserve House staff area rotten window frame replaced. 

  • Monbulk Township landscaping improvement works. 

  • Monbulk Soccer building and toilets demolished then landscaping.  

O’Shannassy Ward

O’Shannassy Ward

  • Woori Yallock Township new mulch to garden beds. 

  • Yarra Junction Township garden bed refresh. 

  • Doon Caravan Park electrical upgrade works following storm damage. 

  • Wonga Rd Millgrove drainage repairs. 

  • Yarra Junction community playground maintenance. 

  • Cynthia Gv Woori Yallock new mulch to garden beds. 

  • Wesburn Track minor repair works. 

Billanook Ward

Billanook Ward 

  • Melba Park Playspace maintenance to swings due to vandalism. 

  • Lillydale Lake fertilisation of high use lawn areas. 

  • Wattle Valley Rd Mount Evelyn, WSUD outfall erosion management. 

  • Warburton Rail Trail re‐sheeting to continue to Warburton Hway. 

  • Mt Evelyn Memorial Playspace maintenance. 

  • Arwon Ct Reserve new mulch on bush beds. 

  • Picnic Hill Reserve new mulch on garden beds. 

  • Athenaeum Theatre Melba Room hardwood flooring installation. 

 

Streeton Ward

Streeton Ward

  • Montrose Recreation Reserve Playspace maintenance. 

  • 22 Lucas Ave Kilsyth concrete pipe relined pit to pit. 

  • The Lane Ferny Creek road profiling renewal works. 

  • Ferny Creek Playspace maintenance. 

  • Parson Ln carpark (newly acquired) clean‐up and landscape planning. 

  • Mt Dandenong Tourist Rd vegetation maintenance along footpath. 

  • Chalet Rd Olinda cross‐road culvert installation. 

  • Rivington Av Kallista sediment catchment pit installation. 

  • Gerratt Av Upwey road profiling renewal works. 

  • 33 Griffiths Rd Upwey installation and modification of pits. 

  • Sherbrooke Family and Children's Centre Kindergarten rooms vinyl floor replacement.  

Ryrie Ward

Ryrie Ward

  • Queens Park Oval re‐opened in time for first cricket game of the new year, including re‐seeding, new drainage, drain lines topped up, edges trimmed and new synthetic run‐ups. 

  • Yarra Glen 2nd Oval new synthetic cricket pitch installed. 

  • Halley Supple Reserve, Coldstream new gravel paths around oval and sports courts. 

  • 251 Maroondah Hwy Healesville reinstating bollards with asphalt. 

  • Badger Creek Rd Healesville multiple road patches. 

  • Pauls Ln Dixons Creek upgrade, working with DEECA. 

  • Yarra Glen Recreation Reserve Playspace beam maintenance. 

  • 133 Maroondah Highway, Healesville drainage erosion works. 

  • Healesville Outdoor Pool new balance tank lid installation. 

  • Don/Mt Riddell Rds, Healesville bus stop footpath connection (Healesville Action Group) item. 

Chandler Ward

Chandler Ward

  • Olinda Oval new synthetic cricket pitch installed. 

  • Wandin East Oval new synthetic cricket pitch installed. 

  • Burns Reserve Playspace maintenance. 

  • Karen Ct Montrose Playspace renewal of edging to hold softfall. 

  • Wandin Station new mulch on garden beds. 

  • Randolph Rd Silvan road re‐alignment works. 

  • Monbulk car park (behind soccer ground) vegetation cut back and new mulch on garden beds. 

  • Seville Water Sensitive Urban Design, weed control works. 

  • Olinda Play Space entry, weed control and garden bed new mulch. 

  • Dickens Rd Olinda widening of narrow section by filling in the open drain with cement treated crushed rock. 

  • Rankins Rd Monbulk (opp. 33) drainage outfall upgrade. 

  • Vika/Jellicoe Aves intersection sediment control measures. 

  • Karwarra Gardens accessible toilet upgrade quotes closed.  

Chirnside Ward

Chirnside Ward

  • Honeysuckle Way Chirnside Park pipe installation to allow mower to access nature strip. 

  • Wandana Reserve Playspace maintenance. 

  • 15 Landscape Dv Chirnside Park woody weed removal (re‐planting this winter). 

  • Bimbadeen Playspace maintenance. 

  • CIRE grass area further top dressing. 

 

 

 

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