Your feedback helped shape the Master Plan

A total of 491 community responses helped shape the endorsed Master Plan. In response to your feedback, we will:

• rebuild the oval to improve drainage and make the playing surface safer and more reliable
• build a new cricket practice facility at the southern end of the reserve
• create a path around the oval and improve connections to Yarraville Primary School, Williamstown Road, and Anderson Street
• upgrade landscaping and entry areas along Williamstown Road and Anderson Street
• restore the existing grandstand and expand the pavilion
• plant more trees with Yarraville West Primary School.

Explore the endorsed Master Plan below, what you told us, how we responded, and how your feedback shaped the final outcome. To read the Council report, visit our website.

Between 20 May and 21 June 2026, we asked the community for feedback on the draft Master Plan. We received 184 responses.

The draft Master Plan was informed by community feedback and included:

• new and improved paths around the Oval and to Yarraville West Primary School
• more trees, shade and planting around the reserve
• the existing skate park retained and upgraded
• public toilets included as part of a pavilion upgrade
• reduced mounds to create more open space
• key buildings retained and restored, including the grandstand, scorer’s box and Mouth Organ Band Hall.

The master planning process also identified the preferred location and design of a cricket training facility (not a traditional fixed net system, but rather netting curtains between wickets).

All options are outlined in the 19 May Council report.

In early 2021, we heard from the broader community through an online survey and received 307 responses.

Here’s what you asked for and how the draft Master Plan responded:

What is it?

Yarraville Oval is a well-used local recreation reserve. It is used widely by the community for sports training and competition, schools activities, by music clubs, and for casual activities like tennis, skating, dog walking and exercise.

Where is it?

Yarraville Oval is located in Yarraville, in Melbourne’s inner west at 203 Williamstown Road, Yarraville 3013.

What does it have?

The reserve has:

• an oval with a turf cricket wicket
• floodlights for training in winter
• cricket practice nets for club use
• public toilets
• a heritage scorer’s box
• a grandstand
• a sports club pavilion
• tennis courts with a practice wall
• a skate park
• the historic Mouth Organ Band Hall.

How long has it been around?

The Reserve was first established in 1889 and permanently reserved under the Yarraville (Recreation Ground) Land Act 1967.