Category Archives: Park highlights this month

Our final working bee for 2014 on Sunday, November 9th 09:00-12:00 near Pakenham Street near the Frog Bog in Kalang Park was a great success! We weeded, watered and mulched.  We haven’t done much of the latter for several years but the threat of a … Continue reading →

Due to a scheduling conflict with Council’s Community Meeting to discuss the new pavilion to be built in Kalang Park on 28/10, the October meeting of the Blackburn Creeklands Advisory Committee has been moved a week forward to the 21st … Continue reading →

Six committee members were able to participate in a hazardous tree review of the park conducted on 7/10 by Council park management along with arborists,  maintenance people and its contractor. The idea is to address dangerous trees or branches especially … Continue reading →

Our October Community Working Bee, on Sunday, 19th October, 2014, was again in Furness Park, this time at the Blackburn Road end along Heath Street. Weeding was the focus of the morning’s work.  It was a good day and place for weeding – even … Continue reading →

Our September Community Working Bee, on Sunday, 28th September, 2014, will once again be in Furness Park, below Gardenia Street. Planned activities:  The original plan was to focus on weeding – but we’ve received a very welcome donation of a couple of hundred tube-stock seedlings … Continue reading →

Our latest Working Bee on Sunday, 24th August, 2014 mainly addressed weeds the in the park at the bottom of Gardenia Street.  The primary target was Angled Onion weed – our notorious weed of the month in May.  Unfortunately, numbers were down a little on … Continue reading →

Update 12/11/2015 Whitehorse Planning Amendment C174 has been gazetted – taking effect from 12th November, 2015.  Schedules 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 to the Neighbourhood Residential Zone have now been introduced into the Whitehorse Planning Scheme at last. This means … Continue reading →

Removal of two (2) large Monterey Pine trees and one (1) Cypress tree located in Kalang Park approximately at the rear of 4A Haydn Street was completed this morning (18/6/2014) by Council.  Work commenced on Monday, 16 June 2014 as planned. The … Continue reading →

Our second community Working Bee for the year was conducted on Sunday, 29th June 2014.  The location was the “Frog Bog” – on the north side of the creek below Myrtle Grove – easiest access to review our work is from … Continue reading →