Tucked away in a hidden part of Linden Park is a nursery where the vast majority of Burnside’s plants are grown. This nursery will be moving to Conyngham Street to a purpose built facility which will also be home to a men’s shed and a council depot.
Council for some time has been contemplating what to do with the soon-to-be old nursery site (purple bit labeled 31 Laurel Ave). Should we plant trees? Develop and sell? Facilities to support Tregenza Oval? After much consideration and a strong desire from the community, council has voted that the site should become a community garden.
The garden will be structured using a Hybrid Model; that is to say that volunteers will grow a garden from which any person can pick the produce and there will also be private plots that residents will pay for. From the community consultation it would seem the private plots would only make up 10-20% of the 30 available plots.
As you can see from the photo there is most certainly a possibility the space becomes home to “undesirable youths” who may do “undesirable things” [that’s not an actual quote from anyone FYI]. To prevent the site becoming a “drug den” as I think I put it in the debate, the garden will be locked at night.
The design and development of the community garden should cost around $200,000.
Council also voted to develop a masterplan for Tragenza Oval, something that is long overdue. I would like to see the Garden named the Huebl-Jones Garden after the huge amount of work done by the Beaumont Boys, or otherwise boring called the Ward Councillors for the Beaumont Ward.
I doubt that will happen, sadly we don't recognise the work that EMs put in these days... it isn't PC (I am guessing... everything is PC these days), so the least I can do is acknowledge the credit they deserve in getting this motion through council.
Cr Paul Huebl Cr Harvey Jones
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