Valley sports clubs, rail links to benefit

By MARA PATTISON-SOWDEN
THE Yarra Valley will see a host of smaller projects being funded in the Yarra Ranges Council budget for 2012/13.
Ratepayers will see a number of minor improvements around sports grounds, car parks and footpaths as well as the rail trail.
Healesville’s Memorial Hall is still being completed, with funding carried forward into the latest budget.
Sporting centres will score improvements such as extended floor space and a spa and steam room at the Yarra Centre, a skate park development at Queens Park in Healesville, and new netball and umpire change rooms at the Yarra Glen Pavilion.
Funding has also been allocated for a feasibility study into soccer and netball facilities at the Don Road Sporting Complex in Healesville and upgrades for picnic facilities, a basketball half court and a skate shelter at McKenzie Reserve in Yarra Glen.
Seville Recreation Reserve will receive picnic facilities, along with a playground, and lighting will be installed on Seville’s number two oval and Wickhams Reserve in Launching Place.
Yarra Glen will get a new railway pedestrian bridge with car park improvements at McKenzie Reserve in Yarra Glen and Recreation Reserve in Wandin North.
A footpath will be constructed in Lauristin Drive, Coldstream, and black spot funding will improve intersections at Beenak, Hunter and Quayle Roads, and Queens and Wandin East Road.