Thank you for your patience during the recent short closure period of the Adventure Playground, for safety reasons.

The playground was independently audited in December, resulting in certain play equipment being boarded off to allow the playground to re-open for the school holiday period. The playground has now seen a successful first week of our school holiday program, and it has been great to see families and children back in our space and connecting with each other again.

Our top priority is to keep the playground open for use in a safe way.

The temporary solution has been to board off certain play equipment to re-open for the school holiday period, allowing children and families to continue to use the space. However, a more permanent safety solution unfortunately means we will have to remove this playground equipment sooner than we were expecting.

Exact dates for this removal will be communicated to the community as soon as they are confirmed. In the meantime, our main goal is to minimise disruption to the children's enjoyment of the space. We are committed to ensuring they can continue to play safely onsite for as long as possible until the full upgrade begins later in 2025.

As per our engagement with children, carers and the community last year, we will be providing an opportunity to farewell the equipment at a community event, with more details to follow.

We are currently finalising the detailed design of the new playground, incorporating the valuable feedback shared by children and the community during the engagement process and look forward to sharing this with you.

Thank you again for your patience and understanding throughout this process.

We are getting ready to upgrade the St Kilda Adventure Playground. We want to make sure this beloved community space continues to be somewhere local children can adventure, imagine, make friends and connect to nature.

The playground upgrade is planned to start in mid-2025. While the playground will be closed during construction, we're committed to continuing services for children who use the space during this time. We've talked to carers about what this might look like.

To honour the unique look of the current playground, which the community has helped to paint and create over many years, the draft design uses raw timber which can be painted by children and keep changing over time.

Feedback on the draft concept design has now closed, but we would still love to hear your Adventure Playground memories and ideas for farewelling the old equipment.

The purpose of the engagement process was to inform the draft concept design of the new playground and buildings and to sense-check this design.

Between February 2023 - May 2024, a range of communications and engagement activities were carried out to inform the community about the proposed Adventure Playground upgrade and to seek the views and ideas from key users of the playground.

Between June - July 2024, a second stage of engagement was carried out, including a range of communications and engagement activities with children, playground staff and the broader community to inform them about the draft concept design, and to seek their feedback. This second round of feedback has been used to further inform and finalise the concept design.

You can read about what we heard during the project in the Engagement Summary Report below.

A multi-disciplinary team lead by Landscape Architects was engaged by Council to provide a full range of design services for the Adventure Playground upgrade.

What we heard from engagement activities in Stage 1 of the project helped to inform the development of the draft concept design. You can read the full draft concept design below or click on the hotspot map below to see how ideas from children informed the design.