Doncaster Reserve provides important community sporting and recreation facilities and acts as a ‘backyard’ and superb pocket of open space for nearby and visiting residents to enjoy.

Places and spaces

• Football - Doncaster Junior Football Club, Beverly Hills Junior Football Club, Yarra Valley Old Boys Football Club
• Cricket - Doncaster Cricket Club
• Playground
• Exercise equipment
• Urban plaza
• Doncaster RSL
• Doncaster Leeds Street Sports Centre - Doncaster Youth Netball Club, Doncaster Basketball Club, Doncaster District Community Youth Club
   

Doncaster Reserve playground

This playspace has many fun play opportunities. Adjacent to the playground is some exercise equipment (and instructions) for adults which is perfect to meet up with friends and keep fit.

There are bus routes nearby on Doncaster Road or easy carparking on site.
 

Doncaster Reserve urban plaza

With outdoor lounge style seating, seating walls, picnic table and eye catching steel art panels, the area is one to rest your legs and bask in some sunlight. Doncaster Secondary College students have worked alongside an artist to produce custom panels to offset this space and tie in with the Oak trees, which provide shade and character.

This urban oasis is the first of five plaza spaces to be implemented as a recommendation of the Open Space Strategy 2014, and has seen this unused area near the Doncaster Road entrance, transformed into a space that is inviting and safe.
 

Facilities for hire

Doncaster Reserve offers football ground and cricket pitch hire options.
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Tolstoy Reserve is a pedestrian thoroughfare between Tolstoy Court and King Street to access the bus stop and Roseville Retirement Village.  It features a walkway, drinking fountain and attractive landscaping. 

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Somerville Reserve has wonderful landscaping and nature play, including play equipment, picnic table and drinking fountain. With paths leading from Somerville Street through to Tullamore Estate.

Places and spaces

• Landscaping and nature play
• Picnic table and drinking fountain
• Seating overlooking play equipment
• Multi deck play structure and swings suitable for range of ages
• Path leading from Somerville St through to Tullamore Estate.

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Located on Wembley Gardens, this reserve has a number of existing Pine trees. It is located in a Significant Landscape Overlay Schedule 7 (SLO7), created to preserve the local Pine tree landscape character.  

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Drewe Reserve provides pedestrian access from Springvale Road and the nearby bus stop to Drewe Court and Emperey Court.  The path is sealed only along the the Drewe Court thoroughfare.  The trees planted in 2012 will provide much needed shade and amenity as they grow. 

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Morello Reserve facilities include equipment and furniture including table seat and picnic table, snake seating wall, garden beds and tree planting and new path connection.

Places and spaces

• Equipment and furniture including table seat and picnic table
• Snake seating wall
• Garden beds and tree planting
• New path connection 

Bring your dog

This is an on lead reserve.

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This small local open space is located within the medium density residential area surrounding Doncaster Hill. A pedestrian link at the south-west corner of the Reserve links Arthur Street to Clay Drive.

Places and spaces

Key features of this reserve include

• swings
• slide
• climbing wall
• spring balance rocker
• tree planting with rock and log edges
• concrete path

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Pound Reserve was the site of Council’s animal pound until the 1960s. It is unreserved Crown Land.

The northern half of the reserve supports Yellow Box with a few Black Wattles (Acacia mearnsii) and Shiny Cassinia (Cassinia longifolia). There is less diversity in the ground storey and natural regeneration is occurring. The mature Yellow Box  in the southern half of the reserve attracts a range of bird life when they flower over summer, including the annual migration from Tasmania of the endangered Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolour). Parties of Swift Parrots have stayed in the area feeding on the trees for days at a time.

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Carawatha Reserve features a range of play opportunities for young children and BBQ and picnic facilities for local residents.

Exciting and challenging play opportunities include climbing, slides, rockers, wobble boards, see-saw and swings. The barbeque and picnic facilities make if perfect for a child's party or a family gathering.

Suitable age group: 0 to 7 years
 

Carawatha Reserve expansion

We’re expanding Carawatha Reserve to create more open space for local residents and visitors to Doncaster Hill. 

What’s included in the upgrade?

The proposed design for the upgrade includes:

• an extended path network with improved access for bikes and scooters
• additional lawn areas
• new trees
• a new play space
• two new outdoor fitness stations
• improved picnic facilities with more seating and picnic tables, and a larger shelter and BBQ area.

When will it happen?

We expect works to begin in late 2024. The new park will likely open in mid-2025.

More information

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Rangeview Reserve was developed as part of the residential subdivision and includes a small area of grass, some planting and a gazebo with four seats. The open space has an attractive appearance with street trees planted around the border of the island.

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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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Despite its relative small size, Montgomery Reserve located on the corner of Montgomery and Churchill Streets is well situated to provide a small green refuge for the workers and shoppers at the busy Doncaster East Village/Devon Plaza. The Reserve also houses Doncaster East Pre-school.

Amenities include a park seat under a shady tree, picnic table and rubbish bin. Playground is suitable for  age group: 1 to 4 years.

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Acheron Reserve is a great spot for a picnic and some ball sports. It features a basketball half court, play equipment for pre-school and primary aged school children, and picnic tables and bench seats under large shady trees.

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Catering for young children, Cameron Reserve features a junior unit with slide, activity panels and a rocker, as well as a pommel walk and swings for the older kids.

It is located near Donvale Retirement Village and also has a picnic table and drink fountain.

Suitable age group: 1 to 7 years

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Fullwood Reserve provides pedestrian and bicycle access from Fullwood Parade to a secondary entrance into Our Lady of the Pines Primary School.  The bench seating, drink fountain and shady trees make it an ideal place for parents to collect their children and stay for a chat.

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Beverley Reserve is located close to Tunstall Square shopping centre. The highlight however, are the playful life-size toadstools ‘growing’ under the boughs of a big shady oak tree - the perfect place for a fairy party or a detour on the way home from shopping or school.

Other play opportunities include a track glide, monkey bar and swings. There is also a pedestrian link to Talford Road

Suitable age group: 2 to7 years

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The playspace and park in Templestowe Lower has had a major upgrade with a new play area created to cater for all ages and abilities.

Upgraded concrete paths now provide a 500 metre circuit for bikes, scooters and walkers, which links to a new round multi-purpose court. A series of interesting animal sculptures and a community herb garden will be installed soon.

Places and spaces

Highlights of the upgrade include:

• a distinctive 20 metre-long snake sculpture which sits as the centrepiece and even glows in the dark
• play equipment including a six-way swing set - the first of its kind in Manningham
• multi climbing and slide unit
• basket swing
• spinning pole

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McGowans Reserve is comprised of two separate land parcels 90 metres apart located around 134 McGowans Road.

The larger western block blends into the neighbouring properties and contains native vegetation comprising of small indigenous canopy trees and 'minor' patches of indigenous understorey.

The smaller eastern block is a tiny land locked parcel at the bottom of a gully that flows into the Mullum Mullum Creek 240 metres away. It contains remnant vegetation (also part of McIntyre Road Biosite 19) and serves a drainage purpose.

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The 16,137m2 (1.6 hectare) Burgundy Reserve has been set aside for local sporting purposes. It contains a large open level area which serves as an informal oval including a cricket pitch skirted by a gravel path, a picnic table and shelter, seating, drinking fountain, litter bin, play equipment and plantings.

The sportsground is currently used by football clubs for pre-season training during the summer months and by St Gregory’s Primary School for sporting activities throughout the year.

Places and spaces

• playing field
• picnic shelter
• play equipment

Facilities for hire

Burgundy Reserve offers sport ground and cricket pitch hire options. 
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