Petition Lodged Seeking Community Facility For Eaglemont

Friends of Eaglemont Village prides ourself on "working for a stronger community".

We have lodged a petition signed by 268 people - 10 of whom have been ruled out for incomplete addresses.

This petition will be considered by Council on 26 June.

Essential for any community identity is a sense of place. We are working hard to define Eaglemont as a space people here identify with, and people elsewhere can identify "where".

To bring people together to forge community bonds and networks it is necessary to have a meeting place.

There is no scarcity of Council halls, community houses, Council-funded Scout halls, Council funded sports pavilions across Banyule.

Friends of Eaglemont Village is pressing to have a community meeting space right here in Eaglemont.

By some public planning lapse there is no public facility other than a (now) unstaffed small railway station in an area serving close to 4000 residents.

No primary school, no kindy, no high school, no Tafe college to hire rooms from.

No Council or State Government facility with conference or meeting rooms.

No church hall, no NGOs with rooms available for hire.

No Scout hall to borrow.

No sports pavilions to hire.

Council has a study running presently to assess its catalogue of built facilities, and to try to wring better, more varied community use out of existing facilities.

This includes a gap analysis to identify the inequitable, haphazard distribution of all types of Council facilities.

Here in Eaglemont we cannot hope to benefit from modified or "freed up" facilities - they simply do not exist.