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The
W F Vale Reserve, Beaumaris

The
W F Vale Reserve is a Bayside City Council
reserve bounded by
Banksia Street, Tramway Parade, and Oak
Street, Beaumaris. It appears to have been
named after Mr W F Vale, who owned land

in Beaumaris some of which was passed

through by the electric tramway, and who
was a joint

owner of 43 hectares that was sold to
the Victoria Golf Club for its golf links in
1922. He was a prominent Melbourne real estate
agent.

This small reserve is zoned Public

Park and Recreation under the Bayside

Planning Scheme. It is not one of
Bayside City Council’s Bushland

Reserves. None of it has a VPO2
Vegetation Protection Overlay, but it all has
a VPO1
Vegetation Protection Overlay.

Unlike many Beaumaris reserves, which have
been largely leased to, or modified for use
by, private organizations, general public
access is totally unrestricted. Much like the
Concourse Green, It consists entirely of
planted trees, mostly mature and native, with
a few indigenous, with no understorey other
than mown grass, but it is a pleasant area of
land to walk across as it is one of the
reserves in Beaumaris without any clutter or
accretion of extraneous objects. A satellite
view is accessible by clicking here.

TREES: The
distribution of genera of the 76 identified
living trees – including those on the abutting
nature strips – is, with those genera not
indigenous to Beaumaris shown in brown,
approximately as follows:

Acacia

   3

        Agonis

      8

       Allocasuarina

     3


Banksia

14

   Eucalyptus

30

   Grevillea

Lyphostemon

       1

   Melaleuca

12

DEAD

   3

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