The Seaford Life Saving Club Precinct Master Plan was adopted by Council on 13 September 2004.  This project provides a vision and guide for future improvements to an inter-connected Seaford Foreshore, Seaford Village and Kananook Creek. A strong focus of this project has been on creating the Seaford experience and the revitalisation of Seaford Life Saving Club.

The document can be viewed at Seaford Life Saving Club Precinct Master Plan  (Acrobat PDF file - 8 MB) and Appendices.  (Acrobat PDF file - 5 MB) 

The key directions in the Master Plan include:

• Seaford Life Saving Club -development of a new life saving club building to be situated immediately behind the existing building and the active foredune, overlooking the beach. It will consolidate several current buildings on the foreshore, incorporate community facilities, a kiosk/small cafe (maximum of 20 internal seats and income will support the life saving club), and toilets. The building design is based upon environmentally sustainable principles and will ensure that significant foreshore vegetation is preserved. There will be no net increase in car parking on the foreshore. Degraded and disused areas will be revegetated and landscaped with indigenous species.

• Streetscape - improvements to public areas in the Seaford Village included the undergrounding of power lines, additional street trees, footpath upgrades and a consistent (local) urban design element. Guidelines will be produced for a walk-through to Broughton Street and continuous shop verandahs along Nepean Highway. Signage and lighting around the Village also will be upgraded.

•  Community Meeting Place -the area in front of the Seaford Community Centre will be revitalised as a "community meeting place", with new surfacing, seating, planting and night lighting. An opportunity for small childrens play will be included also.

• Open Space -the open space between the community centre and Kananook Creek will remain as a grassed space for community events and picnics with additional seats, shade trees and night lighting. A boardwalk and upgraded canoe landings will improve access to the creek. Buffer plantings along the creek edge will be undertaken in conjunction with the Kananook Creek Association.

• Car parking in the Village area -short-term car parking and additional bays for the village will be provided in Nepean Highway to alleviate current parking pressures.  Behind the shops, a proposed reorganisation of the existing parking space to the north of the Senior Citizens Club will allow an increase in vehicle parking from 18 to 39 bays.

• Old Substation Building -recommendations for the future of the old substation building are limited at this time due to private ownership of the building and its unknown structural condition. Opportunities for its redevelopment may include community arts and/or interpretation of the foreshore/creek/wetlands.

For further information, please contact Open Space Co-ordinator, David Gray on 9768 1551 or David.Gray@frankston.vic.gov.au

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