Harry Pottage Memorial Reserve

Harry Pottage Memorial Reserve, Macleod, comprising approximately 5.6 hectares of parkland, including indigenous trees and basalt plains grassland, is significant. The Reserve also contains a remnant rail embankment and alignment which are significant.

How is it significant?

Harry Pottage Memorial Reserve, Macleod, is of historic, scientific, aesthetic and social value to the City of Banyule.

Why is it significant?

Harry PottageMemorial Reserve, Macleod, is historically significant as the site of the last remnant of the Mont Park rail line, that being the railway embankment along the western boundary of the Reserve. (Criterion A)

The Reserve is socially significant as a passive recreation ground for the local community, being Macleod's only large area of public open space west of the Heidelberg to Hurstbridge railway line. (Criterion G)

TheReserve is aesthetically significant for its area of grassland habitat, evocative of the natural landscape supported by the broad basalt plain which underlies this region. This is enhanced by its contrast with the close residential development which forms two of the Reserve's boundaries. (Criterion E)

Group

Parks, Gardens and Trees

Category

Reserve