For the past 16 years, Geoff has played a big part in the evolution of Kingsway from a sleepy retail strip into one of Melbourne’s most vibrant entertainment and dining precincts.
He has been the driving force behind the development of the Glen Waverley Master Plan and the Glen Waverley Structure Plan. Through this strategic work and consultation with residents and traders, he has led the delivery of Council’s vision for Kingsway and the Glen Waverley Activity Centre.
Kingsway is a great place but it has the potential to be even better. There are things we need to improve like inadequate parking and untidy shops. We are now ideally poised to create a thriving activity centre without comparison in Melbourne.
Geoff’s 10 point plan to transform Kingsway:
1. Remove kerbside parking on Kingsway
2. Widen footpaths to promote outdoor dining
3. A new 800 to 1,200 car park in the heart of Kingsway (behind Mocca Jo’s)
4. Keep all car parking FREE
5. Build Australia’s best municipal library and community hub – six times bigger than the existing one
6. Make Kingsway smoke free
7. Clean up Kingsway – get rid of the tackiness and grot
8. New lighting, paving, street furniture and plantings to create a unique sense of place
9. Establish a town square (the size of the City Square in the CBD) on part of the Central Car Park site
10. Improve the mix of shops and restaurants
Posted by Geoff Lake on 12:28 pm in Priorities, Transforming Kingsway | 2 comments
Council is currently in the middle of a Request for Proposal process with five shortlisted bidders to create a town square/public plaza in the heart of Glen Waverley on the Central Car Park site. This is a project Council has been working on for more than five years and aims to deliver upon the vision set in the Glen Waverley Activity Centre Master Plan. A public plaza the size of the city square in Melbourne’s CBD together with a new library are key elements of this project. These new public spaces in the heart of Kingsway opposite the...
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Posted by Geoff Lake on 12:01 pm in News, Priorities, Transforming Kingsway | 0 comments
Council is currently in the middle of a Request for Proposal process with five shortlisted bidders to create a new state of the art library in the heart of Glen Waverley on the Central Car Park site. This is a project Council has been working on for more than five years and aims to deliver upon the vision set in the Glen Waverley Activity Centre Master Plan. A new library about six times bigger than the current one and community meeting spaces are a key part of this project, together with a public plaza the size of the city square in...
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Posted by Geoff Lake on 12:06 pm in Priorities, Transforming Kingsway | 0 comments
I regularly receive complaints from residents about the tacky and grotty presentation of some parts of Kingsway. Council has been working to address this by partnering with traders to expand waste collection services in Kingsway such as by implementing a free cardboard recycling program for traders. We have also pioneered the successful ‘Monash Pride Crew’ concept which is a dedicated team of Council workers who work across Council departments everyday IN the Kingsway precinct to improve its look and feel. However, I recognise...
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Posted by Geoff Lake on 11:50 am in Priorities, Transforming Kingsway | 0 comments
As part of Council’s endorsement of my plan to transform Kingsway, Council is currently preparing a suite of design guidelines for the redevelopment and rejuvenation of Kingsway. This will provide a major facelift for Kingsway to transform it into an iconic destination for outdoor dining, cafes and vibrant activity. Kingsway is a great place to visit but it has the potential to be even better. The street furniture is old, the footpath paving is unremarkable and in places around the activity centre the lighting is poor. The...
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Posted by Geoff Lake on 10:24 am in Priorities, Transforming Kingsway | 0 comments
Let’s face it – everyone in Glen Waverley has experienced how hard it can be to get a car park in the Glen Waverley Activity Centre – especially after 6.00 pm at night. This problem is only getting worse as the popularity of the Glen Waverley Activity Centre continues to soar. As the chair of Council’s Glen Waverley Activity Centre Steering Committee I have led the development of a radical plan to make parking issues a thing of the past in Glen Waverley with a new 800 to 1,200 space multi deck car park on Montclair Avenue in the heart...
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Posted by Geoff Lake on 10:21 am in Priorities, Transforming Kingsway | 0 comments
There is an opportunity to transform Kingsway to create Melbourne’s best outdoor dining precinct. Council is proposing to remove the existing 99 kerbside car parks on either side of Kingsway and replace this with widened footpaths to promote an amazing outdoor dining experience throughout the strip. Car parking will continue to be available on Kingsway down the centre median strip. We are not proposing that cars be removed entirely from Kingsway at this stage, but rather that pedestrians and outdoor dining along Kingsway take...
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Posted by Geoff Lake on 10:18 am in Priorities, Transforming Kingsway | 0 comments
Council has a proud track record of facilitating catalyst projects in Glen Waverley to encourage growth of the centre. These projects have included the Bogong and Euneva car parks and the Ikon, Ibis and Novotel developments. There continues to be significant private sector growth and interest in Glen Waverley. In particular, we now see significant residential development occurring in the Activity Centre with a significant number of residential apartments approved in the last 12 months. Council encourages higher density development within...
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Posted by Geoff Lake on 8:14 am in News, Priorities, Transforming Kingsway | 0 comments
At the August Council meeting, Council supported my and Cr Drieberg’s recommendation to express concern that the state government’s smoking reforms fall well short of the Monash community’s expectations. This is because the proposed reforms fail to prevent smoking in outdoor drinking areas and create various loopholes which might be exploited to allow smoking in outdoor dining areas to continue. We are particularly concerned that outdoor eating areas like Kingsway in Glen Waverley and Eaton Mall in Oakleigh will not become smoke...
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1. Remove kerbside parking on Kingsway
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