Tuesday, 18 February 2020

Bayswater electorate projects

Mr TAYLOR (Bayswater) (13:51): Deputy Speaker, as you know, in this place we have 90 seconds to make a statement and today I wanted to give the Bayswater community a quick run-down on a number of projects being delivered across the community with commitments from the Andrews government—cue Mission: Impossible music and go!

A new learning space and gym for Heathmont College is about to start construction. We are delivering the North-East Link to get you to the city sooner. New stations for The Basin CFA and Knox SES have been announced, with detailed designs underway. The Basin Primary School’s new oval and upgrades to their carpark and pavements are currently in early planning. Detailed designs are underway on the new Knox central library, with $450 000 from the Andrews government. The Reimagining Blind Creek project in Boronia and Ferntree Gully is to be officially opened in the coming weeks. New lighting at Marie Wallace Park in Bayswater to keep locals safe is about to kick off. Bayswater Primary School’s new main building is set to start works in the school holidays, with the construction of block C already finalised. We are making the intersection of Canterbury and Bedford roads safer with construction to fix it starting mid this year. Grants have been made for a number of our local sporting clubs. Construction will also start this year on a new state-of-the-art 120-bed public aged-care facility right in Wantirna. Plans for a new senior learning building at St Bernadette’s Primary School are moving into the next phase.

We are delivering more local police in the Knox and Maroondah areas. The $75 000 for the fit-out of the new HE Parker pavilion is being put to good use, with the pavilion nearly ready to go. The construction of a new pavilion for the Eastern Raptors Rugby League Club is nearing completion. Plans are underway to massively overhaul the State Basketball Centre, which is the home of Knox Basketball, Melbourne Boomers and South East Melbourne Phoenix. Funds to create all-ability spaces at Eastern Ranges, Marlborough Primary, The Basin Primary, Boronia K–12, as well as a new outdoor learning space·at Bayswater South Primary, are all in train. We are building new toilets at Marlborough Primary and Bayswater West Primary. Seventy thousand free brekkies are also delivered to kids across the local community; and hundreds of half-price solar panels will continue to deliver for all locals across the Bayswater community.