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| Long Street Reserve Julia Leng Toomer |
Frankston Council has decided to close the Long Street Reserve and use it for a Kindergarten and Child and Family Centre.
Has Frankston Council considered the Long Street Reserve closure properly? Have they really considered the lack of Open Space facilities that are available for residents and kids in the area?
On the surface it might seem like there is plenty of Open Space available in the area, but it turns out that other open space areas are about 1km away and usualy not suitable as kids play areas. The closest equivalent park is the Maple Street Park, about 1 km away. Lloyd street reserve is over 1 km away and is really a formal sports area, cricket, tennis, football etc. It really isn't suitable for young kids and mums. Young Kids really can't go there on their own as most of the route is along Frankston-Cranbourne Road.
Perhaps another option is the Poplar street entrance to Studio Park. Actually it's the only entrance whne the main gates to McLeland Gallery are shut. But again this isn't really suitable as a play area for young kids. The gate structure doesn't really seem that inviting to kids either. It seems as though it was more designed to deter kids from entering the area.
That leaves the Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Arboretum Playground, more than a kilometer away and marked on Google Maps as temporilarily closed.
Here is the No 1 Priority for Frankston's Health and Wellbeing priorities.
I'm not sure how this fits with councils stated objectives. It seems to be more of a case of this is what we say - It's not what we do.
