Doncaster Hill is a sustainable, high density, mixed-use village that provides for high quality urban living.
Located in the heart of Doncaster, Victoria, approximately 12kms from Melbourne's Central Business District.
Doncaster Hill is a sustainable, high density, mixed-use village that provides for high quality urban living.
Located in the heart of Doncaster, Victoria, approximately 12kms from Melbourne's Central Business District.
An activity centre for our community.
We’re continuing to update Doncaster Hill to improve the way our community lives, works and enjoys this neighbourhood.
These works form a part of our infrastructure planning for this area and the long standing Doncaster Hill Strategy.
The concept design for Hepburn Reserve has been developed in response to community feedback and will include outdoor seating, a BBQ area, a drinking fountain, public art, large open lawn areas, a playspace, nature play, canopy tree planting, bike hoops and more.
This small local open space was upgraded in November 2019 to December 2020
New U-turn lane on Tram Road
Pedestrian signals at the Applewood Retirement Village
Extension to Hepburn Road
Tram Road and Merlin Street intersection traffic lights
With populations on the rise in Melbourne, Doncaster Hill is one of our solutions to meet the challenge of future housing needs. This modern urban village allows those of us who enjoy to live in the suburbs to continue to do so, whilst providing apartment-style living for others.
The Doncaster Hill Strategy helps guide us on the land use and development in this centre.
Many bus routes that are provided by Public Transport Victoria (PTV) travel through Doncaster Hill.
View the routes and timetables of the following bus services:
SmartBus
Local services
In addition to bus services, we are strongly advocating for alternate public transport options with the State Government:
Find out why we are reviewing our strategic vision
Use this toolkit to assist your developments in Doncaster Hill
Manningham’s much-loved Carols by Candlelight returns on Friday 12 December, bringing festive cheer to Ruffey Lake Park in Doncaster East.
Experience a magical evening of live music, entertainment and delicious food under the stars – capped off by a dazzling fireworks display.
This year’s event will be hosted by star performer Lucy Durack (above) and local Carols favourite Richard Thomas. They will be joined on stage by a huge line up of local and national artists, with a special guest appearance by Santa himself.
Lucy Durack is one of Australia’s most well-known leading ladies, with major roles in productions including Wicked, Shrek the Musical, Legally Blonde and Midnight the Musical as well as TV series The Letdown, Sisters, A Perfect Pairing and Doctor Doctor. She’s been a judge on Australia’s Got Talent and performed on The Masked Singer.
“I can’t wait to see you at Manningham Carols by Candlelight,” Lucy said.
Richard Thomas has been entertaining audiences for more than 25 years. His musical theatre credits include Mame, Sweet Charity, Follies, The Secret Garden, Les Miserables, Chicago, Rebecca, The Producers, The Phantom of the Opera and Mary Poppins.
The evening will start at 6:00pm with pre-show entertainment on stage and activities for the kids. The main event kicks off at 7:15pm, ending with a spectacular fireworks display at 9:30pm. Bring a picnic, or enjoy delicious food from one of the food trucks on site.
This is a free, but ticketed event. Register online to receive the latest event updates, including any changes due to extreme weather.
Proudly presented by Manningham Council, this event is sponsored by Opal Healthcare, Mercedes Benz Silver Star, Barry Plant and Hologram Zoo.
For more information and updates, visit the Manningham Carols by Candlelight event page, or follow Manningham Council’s Facebook page.
Ronald Reserve Playground provides play and picnic opportunities in a landscaped setting for children of all ages. Young children can perform on the ‘Once Upon A Time’ story stage with its squeaky stepper seats or exchange a book at the Little Free Library. For some active play there are swings, a junior slide, a climbing net and a balance walk along logs, rocks and beams.
Within walking distance (250 metres away) to Bulleen Plaza and the Bulleen Library, this reserve is the perfect place to relax after shopping or read a book in the storytime area.
Fun fact: The storytime chair/stage was made from a 100 year old pine tree that was felled by a storm in the early 1980s and rescued from becoming firewood to become the story time chair and stage it is today.
Take a book or share a book and produce - the free little library was designed by local residents and made by Kiwanis Club of Manningham for all to enjoy. The library sits on top of a Melaleuca stump that had fallen in the reserve.
By bus:
Ronald Ave/Manningham Rd bus stop:
By car:
On street parking is available
Got skills and ideas? This reserve is part of our Parks Alive program. Get involved and make your mark.
Have you noticed something unsafe like a broken tree branch or damaged playground that needs our attention?
Some types of events, such as festivals or school's cross country runs need a special permission to be held on public land.
A safe and secure home is the foundation for a healthy life, education, and connection to community. Right now we are seeing more people in Manningham facing housing stress and homelessness.
National Homelessness Week runs from 4 to 10 August and is an opportunity to raise awareness of the practical steps to address homelessness in our community.
Homelessness doesn’t discriminate — it can affect anyone. Rising housing costs mean some people are forced to choose between rent and food. We're also seeing a growing need for food relief and emergency support services locally.
If you or someone you know needs help, our Manningham Wellbeing Support Card connects you with local services that can provide support. Hard copies of these are available at community venues including Council facilities, libraries community centres, neighbourhood houses, sporting and social clubs.
Let’s work together to make our community a place where everyone has a home.
Our website provides an online resource directory of local crisis support services, including homelessness and crisis accommodation, emergency food relief, family violence support and wellbeing services.
This National Homelessness Week, we’re joining other councils and community organisations to highlight how we’re working together to support people doing it tough.
Want to learn more? Join us for the webinar More than Shelter on Thursday 7 August at 12:30pm, where we’ll explore the support services that offer safety and dignity to people experiencing homelessness.
Ready Steady Go into a lifelong love of sport!
Perfect for young sports fanatics, Ready Steady Go is Australia’s largest multi-sport program. Enroll today and help your kids build confidence and self-esteem, providing a platform of knowledge, and boosting school readiness skills.
Program information
Terms and conditions
How to apply
To secure one of the low-cost places, you will need to:
Spaces are limited, so get in quick to avoid disappointment.
To celebrate Plastic Free July, we'll be popping up at our local activity centres to chat with visitors about how we can all continue reducing our waste and in particular, single-use plastics. ...
We can all participate in the movement to minimise waste.
To celebrate Plastic Free July, we'll be popping up at our local activity centres to chat with visitors about how we can all continue reducing our waste and in particular, single-use plastics.
Come along and say hello!
A Local Community Festival. ...
Join this local community festival for a fun family day out with activities, food and entertainment, concerts, waterslides and whacky races.
Other events include a billy cart derby, kids' market, battle of the bands, a film feast, Rotary Art Show and so much more.
For more information, go to the Warrandyte Festival website.
Note: this year's festival will not run on Sunday.
Join us for the Healthy, Happy & Wise: Healthy Ageing Forum, an informative event designed to support older adults in ageing well.
Featuring expert speakers from organisations such as Eastern Community Legal Centre, Bendigo Bank, and Elder Rights Advocacy, the forum will cover key topics including financial literacy, retirement planning, elder rights, housing, and active living.
The expert panel will be addressing key topics relating to healthy ageing, and what it means to be Healthy, Happy and Wise.
Participants will be able to explore resource stalls, and enjoy complimentary morning tea.
Held in recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) 2025, this event highlights the importance of elder rights, ageism prevention, and a safe, respectful community for all.
This event is now sold out, but you can join the waitlist by clicking the "join waitlist" button on the right.
Join us for the Healthy, Happy & Wise: Healthy Ageing Forum, an informative event designed to support older adults in ageing well.
Featuring expert speakers from organisations such as Eastern Community Legal Centre, Bendigo Bank, and Elder Rights Advocacy, the forum will cover key topics including financial literacy, retirement planning, elder rights, housing, and active living.
Attendees can engage in a panel discussion with Q&A, explore resource stalls, and enjoy a complimentary morning tea for networking and community connection.
Held in recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) 2025, this event highlights the importance of elder rights, ageism prevention, and a safe, respectful community for all.
This is a free event, however places are limited. Register your attendance today.
Manningham Art Gallery presents two exhibitions of tactile, abstract works that recontextualise commonly encountered materials, celebrating the everyday and unpredictable process driven experimentation.
Anni Hagberg’s Trace Encounters employs foraging practices, ceramic processes, and experimental installation to explore uncertainty as a contemporary human condition.
Rejecting linear understandings of progress, foraging practices embody a sense of agnostic curiosity. Opportunistically engaging materials, which present themselves within the environment through the process of being discarded by one and found by another, foraging encourages lively interaction with the environment.
Rhys Cousins work homes in on otherwise ordinary and ignored surfaces that one might expect to encounter on any given day. It acknowledges life as complex sensory jigsaw, but deliberately strips away the smells, sounds, language, and colour of that puzzle to explore only touch and the external physical qualities of the myriad materials that make up the urban places we live.
Examining the importance of touch as a physical and emotional experience - helping us to make sense of the world, the work also highlights how texture is made as much through presence as absence, with the solid bumps and ridges in a surface playing as great a role in creating its overall texture as its voids, crevices, nooks, and cracks.
Cousins and Hagberg’s works are activated across Gallery 1 and 2.
Installation View, Manningham Art Gallery, March 2022. Photo by Charlie Kinross.
Skate Park Leagues (SPL) is coming to Warrandyte! Locals will battle it out in the skate, scoot and BMX competitions to decide the winner.
Athletes can compete to be crowned the winner of not only Warrandyte, but also the Victorian Melbourne Metro. Points from each round accumulate throughout the year to decide the best of 2023.
Entry is free and people of all ages and abilities can have a go.
Those still finding their feet get the opportunity to have a go, improve skills and confidence and interact with the pros.
Prizes will be raffled off between competitors so everyone has a chance at taking something home.
Event schedule:
SPL competitions give the community the opportunity to come together, watch and support the talent, get involved and cheer on their own.
The Warrandyte round of SPL has been brought to life through a partnership between Manningham Council, The Y, Victorian Skateboarding Association (VSA), AusCycling and Skate Australia.
Do you want to learn to skate but don’t know where to start?
Come along to an All Aboard skateboarding session to learn skate skill basics and build confidence in a fun and inclusive environment!
You’ll learn about skate skill development, injury prevention, skate park etiquette, equipment maintenance and lots more.
Workshops are led by experienced instructors focusing on building skills in a fun and social environment.
All Aboard skate sessions are open to school-aged children and young people of all genders and abilities. No prior experience is needed.
Come to as many or as few workshops as you like.
Nothing! Skateboards, helmets and padding are all provided. If you have your own equipment and prefer to use that, you can bring it along.
Registration is recommended but not essential.
These are the sessions for Warandyte Skate Park. Looking for something closer to home? More locations are listed below.
These workshops are made possible thanks to Victorian Skateboard Association and a Manningham Community Partnership Grant.
We’re installing 3 new community batteries to capture and store renewable energy, so we can power our facilities more sustainably.
This is one step towards our goal of achieving zero emissions for Manningham Council by 2028 and for our community by 2035.
These batteries – at Mullum Mullum Stadium, MC Square and Manningham Council Depot – will deliver:
Community batteries store extra solar power from that site and release it when demand is high.
This keeps the grid reliable, which will become increasingly important as more renewable energy powers our community.
Construction will begin in October 2025, with all 3 batteries switched on by March 2026.
Compact and quiet, these batteries won’t disrupt your power supply or services.
The battery at Mullum Mullum Stadium is made possible thanks to State Government funding, as part of the 100 Neighbourhood Batteries Program.
Join our free information session in March 2026 to learn how these batteries work, why they matter and how you can be part of the clean energy future. Details coming soon.
Join Veronica from A Hand to Help as she shares tried and true methods to help downsize, declutter and spring clean. ...
Join Veronica from A Hand to Help as she shares tried and true methods to help:
Plus, how to recycle to reduce landfill in a mindful and thoughtful way, and part with possessions while reflecting on the memoires they evoke.
This is a free event, however registrations are essential.
Contact Pines Learning to register.
Domeney Recreation Centre is an ideal location with views across the reserve and over the hills. It has three activity rooms and a multi-purpose room suitable for dance, drama, exercise, training sessions, meetings and social functions. Capacity for guests in these rooms is up to 70 seated in theatre style....
Domeney Recreation Centre is an ideal location with views across the reserve and over the hills. It has three activity rooms and a multi-purpose room suitable for dance, drama, exercise, training sessions, meetings and social functions. Capacity for guests in these rooms is up to 70 seated in theatre style. On site parking (70 spaces) are available. There is a sports oval on the site also.
Hosting a birthday party? Our facilities cater for children aged 12 years or under and adults aged 22 years and above.
Take our virtual tour of Domeney Recreation Centre.
We have a pricing structure to suit your needs. Bookings during the week are for a minimum of 2 hours, and 4 hours during the weekend.
If you book more than 10 times during a year, you are eligible for the regular hirer rate.
| Community | Commercial | |
|---|---|---|
| Casual Hirer | $72 per hour | $116 per hour |
| Regular Hirer | $32 per hour | $36 per hour |
A 12 hour flat rate of $648 is also available for casual community hirers.
A set bond will be required two (2) weeks prior to your event date. The amount varies per venue and further information will be provided upon booking. All bond refunds are processed within ten (10) business days post event.
Make sure that you and your attendees are covered by public liability insurance. We can help to organise this for you.
Take our virtual tour of Domeney Recreation Centre, or contact our friendly staff with your questions on 9840 9458 or venues@manningham.vic.gov.au.
Please note, this workshop will be conducted in Mandarin.
Join Connie Cao, passionate urban permaculture gardener and author of 'Your Asian Veggie Patch', as she shares her top tips on starting your own veggie patch from scratch. This workshop will include an overview of plant needs and different growing methods, as well as a hands-on activity where participants will learn to sow their own seeds to grow at home.
Whether you have a backyard or a balcony garden, you’ll leave with simple, practical tips to start your edible gardening adventure.
请大家一起来参加,由Connie Cao主持的家庭蔬菜园种植讲座。Connie Cao是一位热衷于城市可持续生存的园艺家,也是《Your Asian Veggie Patch / 你的亚洲蔬菜园》一书的作者,Connie Cao 将分享从零开始打造自己菜园的秘诀。本次讲座将包括植物需求概述和种植食物的不同方法,並还有一个动手播种活动,参与者将学习如何播种秧苗并可以带回家自己种植。
本次讲座会让您学到一些简单实用的种植方法,让您可以开始在您的后院里,或者阳台上,种上自己喜欢的蔬菜。
请注意,本次讲座将以普通话进行。
Registration is essential and tickets are limited, so please book in early!
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The Wandering Wombats of Templestowe Village have lost their colour!
Will you help us colour them in? We have seven wombat brothers and sisters awaiting your artistic expertise.
Please join artists Robert Michael Young, Lukas Kasper, and Keedan Rigney in the Templestowe Village Pop up Park for a wombat painting workshop.
There will also be opportunity during the workshop to help us paint our new community giant Jenga. This game will be installed as part of the pop-up park refurbishment, commencing shortly.
Drop in anytime to be part of the fun.
All welcome. Recommended for young people under 12 years.
We will provide painting smocks and materials, just turn up!
Learn more about the Templestowe Village Pop-Up Park.
This project has been funded by Manningham Council and the Department of Jobs, Regions and Precincts COVID Safe Outdoor Activation Fund.
Image: Artwork by Robert Michael Young
GO Soccer Mums is an introductory football program designed specifically for women, where participants can have fun, meet new people, and learn basic football skills in a social, judgement-free environment.
It's not just for mums - but for all women! It doesn't matter if you have never kicked a football before - absolutely no experience in necessary - anybody can take part!
In 2022, our program has welcomed women from all walks of life! - Our Muslim community and any women, female-identifying, and non-binary participants.
Grab your friends or come on your own and make some new ones at this female-only social football program.
GO Soccer Mums is an initiative of Football Victoria proudly supported by VicHealth.
What to wear: Runners and clothes that allow you to move around in easy.
What to bring with you: A drink bottle.
#NoExperienceRequired | #NoJudgement
Bollywood Dance for Wellbeing is designed to engage the mind and body to improve and enhance mind-body health, focusing on breath, strength, flexibility and fitness. The program is based on the principles of neuroplasticity and the proven benefits of dance.
The sessions incorporate breathing techniques to calm the mind, and an exercise routine to develop strength, flexibility and fitness of the body.
It also includes creative dance and music from Bollywood dance to create a space to express yourself, as well as providing opportunities to make new social connections.
It is preferred that participants attend all sessions.
This program will involve progression over the 9 sessions, building on dance movements from the previous weeks to create and perform a final dance routine in the last session.
Who is it for? This is an adult/open program. All genders welcome - no previous experience is required.
What to wear? Clothes that allow you to move around easy and comfortable shoes.
What to bring? A water bottle.
The Australian Skate Park League (SPL) is coming to Doncaster on Saturday 10th December for the Melbourne Metro Series, which is part of the Victoria League.
The Victoria League makes up one part of the YMCA's national pathway program that comprises of leagues in QLD, SA, NT, WA and NSW. The Doncaster round is part of an interconnected series of skate park events that will be held across Vic and will feature scooter, BMX and skateboard competitions.
The series is a great opportunity for both seasoned riders and young new skaters to get involved. People can compete to be crowned the winner of Melbourne Metro Series, while those still finding their feet get the opportunity to have a go, improve their skills, interact with the pros and win some fun prizes. SPL gives the community the opportunity to get involved and cheer on their own.
Free entry, all genders and abilities welcome
Send your kids along to our school holiday drama workshop with professional actor and artist Sorab.
The workshop is for younger children aged between 8 to 12 years. They will be introduced to the principles of performing and self-expression through fun theatre games and activities.
Workshops take place in our beautiful Doncaster Playhouse.
Bookings are essential as spaces are very limited.
Don't miss this opportunity to catch Sarob before he heads off on tour!
About Sorab:
Born and raised in Melbourne, Sorab Kaikobad has been acting and creating since he was a child.
As a graduate of 16th Street Actors Studio, Sorab had the good fortune of working with various master teachers including Elizabeth Kemp and Chris Edmund. He has also worked under some of Australia’s finest directors, such as Jason Raftopolous, Iain Sinclair and Paul Currie.