Pick our Parks – help us secure funding towards more open space for our City

During the first stage, the City of Port Phillip was successful in six applications totalling $1.5 million in grant funding, assisting in much-needed upgrades to green spaces and playgrounds across the municipality.

Now, the Pick My Park program is entering its second stage, where the community gets to decide which parks receive funding.

We have three parks shortlisted in this round, and we’re asking the community to vote for our projects to help us secure funding for more open space in our city.

This includes:

• Cobden Place Park, South Melbourne
• Graham Street Recreational Space, Port Melbourne
• Jim Duggan Reserve Expansion, St Kilda

To vote for our three parks, visit the Pick My Park website

Below is a breakdown of the three parks we’d like you to support:

Cobden Place Park, South Melbourne

A cooler, greener Cobden Place: More shade, more seating, and a welcoming pocket park for everyone.
The project will convert Cobden Place into a small public park by adding a central lawn, new shade trees, native planting, accessible seating, and pedestrian links. It transforms under used road space into a greener, safer and more inclusive open space for the Domain Precinct.

Key features:

• Central lawn and passive recreation space
• Shade trees and native planting
• Accessible seating and pathways
• Improved pedestrian connections

Graham Street Recreational Space, Port Melbourne

New multipurpose hardcourts and supporting facilities will encourage everyday activity, social connection and improved health and wellbeing for people of all ages and abilities.

The project will transform underutilised land beneath the Graham Street Overpass into a multipurpose recreation space, delivering hardcourts for informal sports such as pickleball and basketball, along with seating, signage, surface treatments and greening to enhance amenity, connectivity and community use

Key features:

• Multipurpose courts: Space for ball sports and everyday play.
• Places to sit and connect: Seating for rest, watching and socialising.
• Accessible: Clear paths, visibility and universal access for all ages and abilities.
• All-weather space: Sheltered recreation space, new planting and surfaces to improve comfort and amenity.

Jim Duggan Reserve Expansion, St Kilda

Jim Duggan Reserve Expansion project will integrate the existing reserve with newly acquired land to the south, providing enhanced open space facilities for passive recreation.

The upgrade will support increased community use through improved passive recreation facilities, improved accessibility, pathways, planting, seating and open grassed areas.

The delivery of a new park will increase the amount of public open space available in St Kilda, an area currently experiencing a significant shortfall in public open space.

Key features:

• Increased usable open space and passive recreation facilities,
• Improved accessibility,
• Increased tree canopy and biodiversity,
• Improved drainage