The Myers Reserve Master Plan provides an informed, consolidated and long-term approach to future infrastructure development across the site.
Myers Reserve, located at Wadawurrung Country, 125 Creamery Road, Bell Post Hill (next to Covenant College) and has a large range of user groups including lawn bowls, cricket, football, netball and soccer. It also provides open space parkland for recreation opportunities for local residents.
The need for the plan has arisen from stakeholders identifying specific constraints within the Reserve and the inability to meet their current and future sporting and recreation needs.
Changing population demands, ageing facilities and exponential growth in female sports participation have also highlighted the need to review the 2005 Master Plan which is now more than 15 years old.
Key recommendations from the new master plan include:
- Relocate the site entry and develop a formalised road network to improve safety and traffic flow across the Reserve.
- Relocate the netball courts and install an additional multi-purpose half-court warm-up space for club and community use.
- Relocate bowls, install an additional green and a new pavilion to service the match day needs.
- Re-locate and construct new soccer pavilion to address safety concerns from the asbestos.
- Upgrade the existing cricket/AFL/netball pavilion.
- Re-construct the existing overflow oval into a compliant soccer pitch.
- Construct a new AFL/cricket oval.
- Develop a new district-level play space.
Council adopted an amended resolution for the Myers Reserve Master Plan at the Tuesday 27 June 2023 Council meeting.
The final resolution includes the relocation of the soccer pavilion to the preferred site of the Geelong Rangers Soccer Club between the existing pitch 1 and the proposed new soccer pitch to the west.
