The Station Place pop-up park has received the big tick of approval from locals, but it remains to be seen whether the installation will return to Werribee’s CBD next summer.
Wyndham council city economy acting director Peter McKinnon said the council had yet to decide if the pop-up park had a future, and was assessing feedback from a survey of nearly 350 traders and the public.
“We’re still in the process of collating the results of this survey, but the initial feedback shows there is overwhelming support for the pop-up park to return in the future in some format,” Mr Mc Kinnon said.
“We’ll be taking all of the feedback we have received from business owners and the broader community into consideration before we make a decision on whether the pop-up park will return, and if it does, how the model will be fine-tuned.”
The pop-up park, which ran over five weeks between January and February, attracted more than 10,000 visitors.
However, a number of Station Place traders called for the park to be discontinued or relocated, saying the experiment had been bad for business by closing 22 car parks fronting their stores.
Meanwhile, the Point Cook Action Group is working hard to try and make their pop-up park at Point Cook Town Centre, along the Murnong Street restaurant precinct, a permanent feature.
The Point Cook park, which ran for the two months following the Werribee installation, was embraced by locals and traders alike, with both Wyndham council and Point Cook Town Centre owners Stockland open to the idea of setting up a permanent pop-up park.
Susan McIntyre, a driving force behind the project, said the group had lodged a submission for funding in the council’s next budget.
