MacPherson Park Redevelopment

Project value$12.3M

The redevelopment of MacPherson Park stems from a November 2017 Future Directions Master Plan. Established in the mid 1970’s, MacPherson Park is City of Melton’s principal recreational reserve, servicing clubs and teams from the local and broader region. The reserve is 98 hectares in size and is located 6.9 kilometres north of the Melton Township, on Coburns Road, Toolern Vale (Melways Ref – 330 H8). The site is located outside of the Melbourne Urban Growth Boundary and is surrounded by rural development, with the closest residential development located almost two kilometres to the south.

MacPherson Park has historically been well utilised by a range of sport and recreational groups over the years. Groups currently in residence are:

Melton Football Club (AFL)
Melton Cricket Club
Melton Greyhound Racing Club
Melton Rugby Union Football Club
Melton Rugby League Club
Melton Racing Pigeon Club
Melton & District Adult Riding Club
Melton & District Pony Club
Warranooke Riding Club
Friends of Melton Equestrian Park
Melton Phoenix Soccer Club
Melton Wolves Gridiron Club
Melton Dog Obedience Club
North Western Titans Baseball Club
Victorian Blokart Association

Mcpherson Park Rugby pavilion

Detail design is currently underway way and is expected to be completed by September 2024. It is expected that works will commence mid 2025.

Soccer Car Park and Northern Access Road

The unsealed Soccer carpark at Macpherson Park and connecting road within the sporting reserve in the of municipality of Melton City Council has been upgraded. The Australian Government provided Council with a grant to construct these projects out of its Local Roads and Community Infrastructure stimulus program. These projects will involve the formalisation of this carparks to Australian Standards.

The upgrade works involved:

Sealing the soccer carpark
New landscaping with passive irrigation
Installing Lighting within the carpark
Installing Black perimeter fencing
Pedestrian crossing for better pedestrian movement within the carpark
Upgrading the northern access road into MacPherson Park
Upgrading access road directly into the soccer carpark
Adding new line marked speedhumps along the length of the access road
Solar lighting along the access road

The project also modifies existing infrastructure such as services, drainage pits, driveways, pram crossings and streetlights.

MacPherson Park Soccer Pavilion

Stage 2

Construction of the MacPherson Park Soccer Pavilion has been completed.

The new pavilion has been constructed across two buildings, doubling the size of the previous facility, and includes:

undercover public viewing stands for around three-quarters of the length of the pitch
disabled access down to the fence line
·new kitchen, bar and social rooms
four home and away, and two referee, changerooms
full solar system, allowing the building to be blackout proof
rainwater harvesting system for irrigation and amenity use
upgraded water pressure pumps to future proof MacPherson Park for other pavilion projects
new waste system.

Stage 1

Works commenced in January 2019 and were completed in June 2020.

The scope of works for Stage 1 included:

Two story (1068m2 GFA) sports pavilion for football, cricket and netball
Establish services infrastructure including
- Power services upgrade
- Sewer upgrade
- Rainwater harvesting
- PV Cells
- Conduits for future communications
- New Septic System (via nominated sub-contractor)

New bitumen carpark servicing new pavilion
New multi-purpose synthetic oval with 100 lux metal halide lighting
New netball court with 100 lux metal halide lighting
1/3 size training netball court
Sheds to accommodate cricket storage and Pigeon Club
New netball shelter and relocate existing shelter
Landscaping including:
- Standard and exposed aggregate concrete paving
- Asphalt
- Hard wearing turf
- Hydro-seeding
- Granitic gravel
- Mulch garden beds
- Trees, Plants
- Seating, Bike Hoops

Site Preparation elements including:
- Demolition of part of existing entry road and make good
- Demolition of existing caretakers cottage including sheds/tanks
- Demolition of existing cricket sheds and cricket nets
- Removal of mounding to make way for the pavilion

The Stage 1 project is a $12.3M project which will revitalise the eastern aspect of MacPherson Park and deliver part of the Future Directions Master Plan. External funding of $2M is being provided by the Victorian State Government through the Growing Suburbs Fund and $100,000 from AFL Victoria towards the costs.