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The Mount Pleasant community will gather to celebrate its revamped local asset – the Mount Pleasant Recreation Reserve - at a special event tomorrow. 

For the past two years, the community has worked with the City of Ballarat to improve this much-loved community asset in a bid to create a space that the entire community can enjoy. 

Traditionally used for organised sport, such as cricket and junior football, the revitalised Mount Pleasant Recreation Reserve now caters for the wider community, encouraging residents to play, exercise and to connect with their neighbours and neighbourhood.  

The space is already proving popular with exercise groups, which are using the Reserve for boxing, cross training and yoga sessions. 

Fully-funded by the City of Ballarat, the Reserve Master Plan process and program of works has been steered as part of the Engaging Communities Program in Mount Pleasant.  

Revitalisation works include: 

The works directly implement community priorities raised during the Master Plan process. These included relocating the play space away from Barkly Street to a quieter area of the reserve and locating the play facilities next to the new public toilets. 

The initiative is one of a number community-led projects being delivered in Mount Pleasant as part of the City of Ballarat’s Engaging Communities Program. 

The Mount Pleasant Recreation Reserve celebration will be held at the Mount Pleasant Recreation Reserve, Morton Street, on Thursday 13 September from 4-5pm.