Locality Analysis - South Gippsland Shire Council

LOCALITY ANALYSIS STRATEGY VOL. 2 19/9/07
3.4 KONGWAK
Overview of supply
Kongwak’s settlement type is classified as a rural hamlet/ low density
residential. These are generally settlement types under 200 people, with a
limited range of land uses and community facilities and that the community is
unlikely to support a sports club. This settlement type assumes that there
would be only one main social /family recreation and sport site and that further
subdivision will not trigger the provision of new decentralised sites.
For a very small town, this locality has a good diversity of basic facilities in open
space.
Only the Pioneer Park is zoned as public parkland.
The range of spaces and their classifications are shown in the following table.
Table 3 .4 Re crea t ion fac ilities in Kongwak
NAME ADDRESS PRIMARY LANDSCAPE ZONE
FUNCTION SETTING TYPE
RN Scott
Kongwak Social /family Specialised sports TZ
Reserve
recreation
surface
Primary School Kongwak Education Sports facility TZ
Pioneer Reserve Kongwak Conservation of
heritage
Bushland/ forest PCRZ
Avenue of
Kongwak Cemetery/
Tree plantation/ RDZ1
Honour
memorial/
remembrance
specimen planting
Memorial Hall Kongwak Civic forecourt
gathering
Open parkland TZ
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Key demand issues
Kongw ak Communi ty Group
The key points raised by the Kongwak Community Group were:
� Pioneer Park is a valuable piece of land and should be
protected, due to it native vegetation and the collection of
seeds
� Pioneer Park is one of the few pieces of bush land left in the
district
� Additional playground equipment is required within Scott Park
in Kongwak and pledges it is well maintained
Kongw ak T enni s cl ub
The club is looking at updating wire fencing.
Househol d survey fi ndi ngs
� Boating facilities, fishing platform/ pier and lakes or riverside
parks were the facilities that were seen as priority if funds
became available for respondents from Kongwak.
Opportunities
The location of the Foster Creek and its public reservation provide
an opportunity to create a several walking tracks in a circuit along
the Korumburra /Wonthaggi Rd to connect back to Pioneer Park,
and north passed the hall left along the unsealed road to foster
creek and back to Pioneer Park or the RN Scott Reserve.
The hall and RN Scott Reserve are not zoned for Public Park and
Recreation.