New car park redesign targets Hamilton Place’s traffic headache, while cutting 39 spaces

Mount Waverley Village Shopping Centre visitors may soon be able to get their groceries home quicker, with a redesign of the Hamilton Place car park ready to be released for residents and visitors to have their say.

🚘 What’s in the plan? During last month’s Monash Council meeting, councillors endorsed draft plans for the redesign of the Hamilton Place Car Park.

• Outcomes of the plan include widening footpaths, closing certain access and exit points, removing the main roundabout and replacing it with a splitter island and increasing the tree canopy to provide shade and reduce the urban heat island effect.

• These proposed changes would cut the number of car parks from 257 down to 218 spaces.

📣 What did councillors say? Monash deputy mayor Elisha Lee said she was aware of the issues Hamilton Place poses to motorists as she grew up in Mount Waverley and her parents still called the area home.

• Monash councillor Rebecca Paterson said she encouraged all users and traders to have their say on the proposed plans.

• 🗣️ “Sometimes when we look at things like car parks, there’s things that look like they might be the perfect solution, but the engineers are aware of flow-on consequences,” said Paterson.

⏭️ What’s next? Monash Council would formally launch the consultation process in mid-January.