Pictured: Hadfield Park Play Space (aerial view).
Growing Suburbs Fund 2023-24 and 2024-25
The May 2023 Victorian Government budget allocated $10 million, and the May 2024 budget allocated $5 million to the Growing Suburbs Fund for building the facilities necessary to support healthy and liveable communities in our fastest-growing suburbs.
Both rounds are being delivered by the Office for Suburban Development in the Department of Transport and Planning.
For more information, please visit the Office for Suburban Development website.
Growing Suburbs Fund
The Growing Suburbs Fund (GSF) provided an investment of $440 million over 10 years between 2015-16 and 2024-25 in critical local infrastructure in Melbourne's diverse and fast-growing outer suburbs.
Since its establishment in 2015, the Growing Suburbs fund has supported 360 projects representing a total infrastructure investment of $1.3 billion and has created over 11,340 jobs.
For more information about the projects funded up to 2022-23, please visit our Funded Projects page.
The administration of the projects funded under the Growing Suburbs Fund from 2015-16 to 2022-23 remains with Local Government Victoria in the Department of Government Services.