Hamer Park. Photo: Laura Pond
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Residents at odds over park proposal

Laura PondEastern Reporter

MT Lawley residents are at odds over plans to build clubrooms at a local park.

The City of Stirling has fielded complaints about noise and parking from residents along North Street for 10 years coming from clubrooms at Hamer Park, which is used used by the Mt Lawley Amateur Football Club and the Mt Lawley Inglewood Cricket Club.

It released a concept plan last April to move the clubrooms to the opposite side of the park on Woodsome Street, opposite Mt Lawley Senior High School.

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The proposal will see the football club moved to Moyle Pavilion which is also being rebuilt, at Inglewood Oval and Mt Lawley Inglewood Junior Football Club to Hamer Park to address noise issues.

But the location was scrapped after backlash from Woodsome Street residents and the high school.

The City then proposed four other locations.

A report to the February 11 council meeting said the majority of respondents preferred option C, which proposed moving the clubrooms further into the park, but noted many still picked the initial location.

People from both sides of the park packed the meeting, where North Street resident Delia Quinn said 62.5 per cent of people who lived within 400m of the park supported the original plan.

Neighbour Richard Biegel argued the Woodsome Street clubrooms and carpark would be 200m from the nearest house, compared to 75m between homes and the clubroom and 10m from the carpark.

Steve Liebich, who lives on Woodsome Street, supported the proposal because he said moving the clubrooms further into the park and relocating the senior football club would provide a “much better environment and less disturbance” to nearby residents, while Jason Whitburn said 90 per cent of people surrounding the park signed a petition opposing the original location.

Council approved the plan, with councillor Suzanne Migdale saying the City had run a “robust consultation process” over the past two years and option C was a “clear favourite” that would allow for girls’ football.

“It will add and facilitate other levels of sport activities in the park,” she said.

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