By BRIDGET SCOTT
AFTER months of lobbying local government, residents of the small seaside town of Tooradin are thrilled about significant progress with master plans for Tooradin Recreation Reserve and Rutter Reserve.
Ricky Holland from the Tooradin Cricket Club has been one of the local residents to help spearhead the project and have the master plans moved forward.
He said residents are now taking positive steps along the long road to have it adopted.
The council is currently exhibiting a draft Tooradin Recreation Reserve Master Plan and Draft Rutter Park Recreation Reserve Master Plan.
Members of the public have been welcomed to have their input and provide feedback before 27 March.
Mr Holland said it has been a great experience to work alongside councillors and council officers to get the master plan to this point.
“Our community is really in need of all this stuff,” he said.
“The facilities really need an upgrade and it’s for those of us who live here as well.”
He said the plans aim to provide facilities for junior sport.
“It’s really growing out our way,” he said.
City of Casey manager of sport and leisure Richard Amon said the draft master plans have been developed in consultation with the committee of management of the two reserves and informed by the council’s Leisure Facilities and Development Plan.
“Council is confident that by engaging user groups through consultation, the master plans will provide a practical approach to the future development of these two reserves,” he said.
“A report summarising the feedback, and incorporating any changes to the final draft master plans, will be considered at a future meeting of the council.”
Mr Holland said residents hope the master plans are not too far away and that they will mean that Rutter Park can be totally transformed.
“Rutter Park is the biggest change,” he said.
“It can’t be used by juniors at the moment, which is disappointing.”
