Rieschiecks Reserve provides a range of community, recreation, heritage and sporting facilities including Schramms Cottage, Scout Hall, athletics track, football and cricket oval and Heimat Centre.
 

Places and spaces

• Athletics track 
• Doncaster Athletics Club
• Victorian Masters Athletics Club
• Doncaster Little Athletics Centre
• Schramms Cottage Museum
• Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society
• Heimat Centre
• 1st Doncaster East Scout Group
• Playground
• Sporting oval, practice nets and pavilion (football/ cricket)
• Manningham Cricket Club
• Public toilets
• Off street carparking
• Accessible carparking

Tom Kelly Athletics Track

Tom Kelly Athletics Track is the only athletics facility in Manningham. As well as serving local residents through the junior and senior club structure, it also services schools within and outside of Manningham.

Tom Kelly Athletics Track Usage Plan

As part of our ongoing commitment to making sporting facilities more accessible we have reviewed the way in which the community use the Tom Kelly Athletics Track. We spoke to many users of the Athletics Track through our onsite consultation sessions and online survey.

After hearing your ideas, we developed the Tom Kelly Athletics Track Usage Plan.

The Plan was endorsed at the 31 October Council Meeting and implementation of the Plan is now underway.

Bookings

There is no public access to Tom Kelly Athletics Precinct during club/casual allocations. 

To discuss bookings and fees, contact us.

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Bring your dog

Off lead except 15 metres from a playground, barbeque or organised sporting event.  Dogs are prohibited on the Tom Kelly Athletics Track facility.

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The fun playspace at Maggs Reserve includes a junior play unit with two slides, pommel walk monkey bar and swings.  There is a drink fountain and picnic table which is perfect to spend some time with the family.

Access to the reserve is from Ireland Avenue and Maude Avenue. The Reserve provides a path network that allows local residents to utilise these links and also provides an attractive green space within surrounding residential developments for informal recreational pursuits.
 

Maggs Reserve playspace upgrade

Consultation of the draft playspace concept design for Maggs Reserve closed on Tuesday, 30 April 2024.

We're currently reviewing the feedback we received.

We will report back on key outcomes with the final design by the end of May 2024.

More information

For more information, go to Maggs Reserve Upgrade on YourSay. 

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Play opportunities include traditional play equipment such as a slide, swings, stepping stones, butterfly rocker, monkey bar and a basketball/ netball halfcourt. There are ample seats with shade from the trees. The main entrance is from Whickson Court, with another entrance from Happy Valley Court. Why not ride or walk the quiet local streets when visiting this neighbourhood park? 

Suitable age group: All ages

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Savernake Reserve connects Savernake Court to the Blackburn Road and associated bus stops.  It has a seat and is attractively landscaped.

A ramp and landscaping were constructed at the Saveranke Court end to deal with the steep bank into the Reserve.

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A modern playground with excellent play opportunities, including a junior play unit for younger kids, swings, track glider and monkey bars, a picnic table and drinking fountain as well as a basketball ring to cater for all ages.

A fun playspace ideal for the whole family. Bring your lunch and stay for a while. Natural shade is provided by some mature trees. Suitable age group (indicative): 1 to 14 years.

Places and spaces

• Basketball ring
• Netball ring
• Playground
• Drinking Fountain

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Lionel Reserve Playground is located on a corner site and contains swings, slide, monkey bar, rocker and fireman's pole. The playspace has a picnic table and is located close to Blackburn Road and Beverley Hills Primary School.

Suitable age group: 1 to 7 years.

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Fernlea Reserve provides a quiet tranquil space to enjoy skyline views from and a play space. The garden beds and seating area provides a relaxing space in the reserve and there is plenty of open grassed space for a run around.

Places and spaces

• welcoming entry through landscaping and rock stairway 
• grassed open space area for picnics and ball games
• challenging climbing tower for older children and junior play unit with slide, shop and cubby. A swing set and spinner.
• landscaping including logs and rocks for climbing, balancing and nature play opportunities
• garden beds with shrubs and trees
• seating including park benches and rock walls near the playground for resting and socialising

Getting There

By bus

Fernlea Cres/Blackburn Rd bus stop: 
Bus route 905 City - The Pines SC via Eastern Fwy & Templestowe 

Fernlea Cres/Andersons Creek Rd bus stop: 
Bus route 318 City - Deep Creek 
Bus route 906 City - Warrandyte via The Pines SC

By car

On street parking available

Get Involved

Would you like to get involved with your local park with gardening activities, neighbourly events or creative projects? Discover Manningham’s Parks Alive initiative.

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Bronte Playground, located at the southern end of Green Gully Linear Park was upgraded in 2010.  The play equipment caters well for all ages and the areas also includes a hit up wall and basketball half court. Its main frontage is to Serpells Road but it connects to the north via Bronte Rise to Jenkins Playground.

There is a bus stop directly outside on Serpells Road and the playground is in the catchment of two primary schools. This locality is well catered for with play and informal recreation opportunities and no further development is required.

Places and Spaces

Our playground includes:

• Playground
• Parking
• Basketball half court
• Hit up wall
• Shelter
• Drinking fountain

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Set among the tranquil walking tracks, families won’t want to leave this adventurous playground. Among the favourites is our playful rock feature, and river bed channel with water play gates in the warmer months.

With the community's input, Victoria Street Playground has been upgraded to include new customised towers and slides, sand play features, extra water play areas and swings.

The playspace also features:  

• an adventure play circuit
• expanded sand and water play area
• giant basket swing
• lookout tower with slide and rope play
• additions and improvements to the existing Hummel tower
• inclusive spinner
• three new swing sets
• nature play areas
• fresh landscaping and seating surrounding the playspace
• improved pathways. 

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Deep Creek Reserve is a baseball facility located next to the Mullum Mullum Creek Linear Park. Home to the Doncaster Dragons, this is the only baseball facility in Manningham and the club caters to a wide regional catchment that extends beyond Manningham. A section of the Mullum Mullum shared trail has been constructed between the baseball field and the creek.

Places and spaces

• Doncaster Baseball Club
• modern change rooms, including umpire's change room
• storage amenities
• a function space 
• a kiosk
• two dug outs
• spectator seating 
• access to the Mullum Mullum Trail.

All public amenities comply with Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requirements and meet Baseball Australia Club Facility Resource Guide and Regulations for New Baseball Fields, and Sport and Recreation Victoria's Design for Everyone Guide.

Facilities for hire

Deep Creek Reserve offers baseball and softball pitch hire.

Contact us for bookings and fees.

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Deep Creek Reserve pavilion upgrade

The upgrade to Deep Creek Reserve Pavilion is an exciting project that we are undertaking in partnership with the Victorian Government and the Doncaster Baseball Club.

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St Clems Reserve extends along a drainage line from the corner of Tunstall Road and Maggs Street to Grevillea Road.

A walking/cycling trail has recently been completed and some play equipment installed.

The reserve is large (almost three hectares) and is accessible to a large portion of the population to the east of the precinct. It provides a thoroughfare from the north east of the precinct to the south east for pedestrians, joggers and cyclists and a link to the Koonung Creek Linear Park.

Bright and colourful play opportunities in a shady setting. It’s a perfect park to walk from home and have a picnic. Don’t forget to bring a ball. 

Suitable age group: 1 to 8 years

Places and spaces

• Walking path
• Playground

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Next to The Pines shopping centre, this reserve accommodates a range of recreation and play opportunities for local residents and visitors to the shopping centre. The Pines Community and Activity Centre is in the reserve and houses Manningham U3A and The Pines Learning and Activity Centre.

The Reserve's highlight is its playspace, which includes fitness equipment designed by a physiotherapist specifically to improve the strength, mobility and agility of older adults or those recovering from injury or illness. Watch the video to learn more about the exercise equipment. There are also clear instructions on site to assist people through the exercises.

Places and spaces

• Playground
• Exercise equipment for older adults and those rehabilitating from injury or illness
• Shared pedestrian and bicycle pathway
• The Pines Learning and Activity Centre
• Manningham U3A
• Deep Creek Childcare and Kindergarten.

The Pines Reserve playground and exercise equipment

The playground caters for all ages, including older adults, with specialised exercise equipment designed to increase strength, flexibility, balance and fitness. The exercise equipment doubles as play equipment for young children and is ideal for parents and grandparents who want to exercise while their children enjoy the playground. 

Suitable age group: All ages

Pedestrian links

• Deloraine Close
• Ashton Rise
• Johns Grove
• Monomeath Close.

Public transport

Public transport is readily available at The Pines shopping centre at the Reynolds Road entrance.

Car parking

Parking is available at The Pines Learning and Activity Centre from Blackburn Road. This includes four disabled parking spaces.

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Larnoo Playground is located next to Gumnut Gully Pre-School on the Mullum Mullum Creek Linear Park. The playground was upgraded in 2008 with interesting play opportunities in a bushland setting that contains a mix of remnant indigenous vegetation and ‘old’ farmland.

The landscape in the vicinity of the Mullum Mullum has historic value with the dam and remnants of orcharding rows. Play opportunities include a junior play unit with slide, activity panels, climbing frame, swings, crocodile walk and stepping stones, turnover bar and single rocker.

Suitable age group: 0 to 11 years

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