Community meeting to discuss Berridale Beautification Project
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Berridale residents will be given further opportunities to have their say and learn more about the Berridale Beautification Project when a community meeting is held on Wednesday 30 October.
Following some concerns over the proposed removal of trees within the Berridale Memorial Park, the meeting will allow Council staff to discuss the works with the community.
The meeting will start at 5pm at the Snowy Mountains Country Club in Berridale where residents will also be able to view project plans and provide their feedback.
In 2014, the then Snowy River Shire Council adopted the Berridale Landscape Masterplan following consultation with the community. The masterplan provides a 30-year vision for Berridale’s beautification. The masterplan outlines the need to reinforce Berridale’s cultural connections, strengthen the town’s civic pride, and generate further economic activity. The masterplan states, ‘At its core is the creation of an attractive, connected, sustainable and vibrant “Village Centre” reinforcing Berridale’s cultural identity’. The masterplan sets out a scope of works to upgrade the intersections of Myack and Park streets with Jindabyne Road. Works to improve the Myack Street intersection are required to address issues of flooding, elevation and the condition of the road.
Council would like to assure the community that works have been put on hold until further consultation has occurred.
Council will work with the community to preserve the social and heritage connection of the trees in Memorial Park. This is a process that received community support during the removal of Berridale’s avenue of Lombardi Poplar trees.
To ensure Berridale’s connection to the Poplars (planted in 1935) was not lost, a series of replanting ceremonies were held. An equal amount of Lombardi Poplars were planted along with the four main approaches into town. The trees were planted by community members from the original planting and relatives from those who helped created the avenue some 80-years earlier.
The community will also be able to provide feedback online via Council’s Your Say platform and through hard copy surveys available at Council’s Berridale office.