Across the road from one of Australia’s most prestigious golf courses, whose membership includes the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, lies a clean fill site that was destined to be transformed into parkland and sporting fields.
Situated in a green wedge zone – where locals often spot wedge-tailed eagles above – the Heatherton site had been earmarked as one of a “chain of parks” promised for Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs, which the Andrews government committed $25m to ahead of the 2018 election.
