Northern Metropolitan Region
Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (12:45): (981) My constituency question is for the Minister for Environment. I ask the minister to direct Parks Victoria to discuss reopening the Greenvale Reservoir Park and advise when the Greenvale Reservoir Park will be finally open. Since beginning my advocacy on reopening the Greenvale Reservoir Park at the southern end, locals have raised the lack of engagement from this government since the dam wall upgrades took place in 2014. This was brought up in a meeting on Monday with my colleague the Shadow Minister for Environment and Climate Change James Newbury. Over 500 people have signed my petition. Residents were not actually aware until the minister responded that dam wall works were completed in 2018. It has been a whole year since the southern park was closed. The member for Mill Park, a former minister for the environment, even pledged $1.4 million from Melbourne Water to reopen better access to Somerton Road, Greenvale. Well, it has been seven years since then, and we still have not reopened that park.