Due to the high number of COVID-19 cases in the community and to protect the health and safety of community members and our staff, we’re rescheduling the walking tour that was due to be held at The Hill on Saturday 12 February at 11am to discuss makeshift bike jumps and works to undertaken to improve the area in the short term.

We’re seeking to establish a stakeholder reference group for the extension and modification of the Hill. Follow this page to be alerted when expressions of interest open to be involved on this group.

Maintenance update

Rectification and maintenance works have recently been undertaken by the City Works Department at The Hill. Large rocks have been removed, timber furniture repaired and grass, weeds and litter removed. A three monthly maintenance inspection of the track and furniture is in place.

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Following the preparation of the summary of community engagement feedback last month, the City has been investigating maintenance work and potential improvements that can be undertaken at the Hill Mountain Bike Park as well as looking at the development of a 'Friends of the Hill' group.

While we'd hoped to have a report on these available in November, this will now be shared with you in December.

Thank you for your continued interest in this project and your support of the Hill as an important mountain bike park in our region.

While the community session to be held at The Hill in September was not able to take place due to covid-19 restrictions, 14 people did take up the opportunity to have a one-on-one chat with one of our recreation team members. Very valuable insights, feedback and ideas were shared with us about the future of The Hill during these conversations and we thank everyone for their participation.

The Summary Report of the community feedback gathered over the past few months is now available for you to review, you can find it in the document library on this page.

Feedback from the conversations and from the survey earlier this year will now be considered by the organisation to identify any possible opportunities for improvements to The Hill in the short to longer term.

A further update is anticipated in late November.

Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback during this engagement, you contributions are really valued.

Unfortunately with the uncertainty of the current lockdown we are cancelling the sessions planned for Saturday 4 September.

We really appreciate everyone's interest in mountain bike riding and The Hill Mountain Bike Park and those who had booked to attend a session have been offered an opportunity to have a phone conversation to talk about the feedback results with our team instead.

We will also be sharing the feedback results on this page, in early to mid-September so everyone will have an opportunity to provide further thoughts via the page online.

We are pleased to share that we are now able to re-schedule the community session. Current covid-19 restrictions will limit our numbers per session, but we will aim to provide enough sessions so that everyone who wishes to be involved can be.

Community members who registered for the session are now invited to book a time at one of four sessions to be held at The Hill on Saturday 4 September, 2021.

Engagement session is planned under current covid-19 restrictions and could be re-scheduled if restrictions change or if it looks to be very wet weather.

Contributions to the survey posted on this page has now closed. Thank you to everyone for your feedback.

We will now collate the contributions and analyse the feedback to share with community and the upcoming in-person session at The Hill Mountain Bike Park when the session is reschedule.

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Due to the Victorian Government’s COVID-19 restrictions, we are unable to host the in-person engagement session scheduled for this Saturday 24 July.

We aim to reschedule the event once restrictions are eased. In the meantime, this online engagement and survey will remain open for feedback.