Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy 2005 - 2030

Kororoit Creek is one of Melbourne's major waterways and one of the most important natural assets of the western suburbs. It is significant to the public, with environmental and cultural value while also providing recreation, walking, and cycling opportunities for the local community.

The Creek is home to significant animal species such as the Growling Grass Frog and the Striped Legless Lizard, as well as internationally recognised migratory birds. Remnant native vegetation also survives in some places, including Red River Gum and White Mangroves.

The waterway also contains extensive Aboriginal archaeological material and notable places of post European heritage.

Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy 2005-2030 is a long-term strategy to protect, manage and improve access to a 40km stretch of Kororoit Creek from Toolern Vale, north east of Melton, to where the creek enters Port Phillip Bay in Altona.

Outlined in the strategy are a range of actions to guide and assist local councils, Victorian government agencies and friends groups on issues relating to biodiversity, planning controls, landscape character, trails and recreation, cultural heritage and waterway management.

Our vision for Kororoit Creek is to be one of Melbourne's most popular and well utilised waterways, rivalling long-established open space corridors such as the Yarra River and Merri Creek.

By 2030 hundreds of people each week will be able to walk, run or cycle along the continuous pedestrian and cyclist connection along the creek corridor. They will also have access to many improved parks and reserves that adjoin the creek, including a new regional park west of Caroline Springs.

Major initiatives outlined in the Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy 2005 – 2030 include:

  • Create a continuous cycling/walking trail along the creek

  • Develop new or upgrade existing parks along the creek to create 16 nodes that provide a key point of access to the trail and are a hub for visitor facilities

  • Undertake works protect and rehabilitate the waterway

  • Improve the quality of stormwater entering the creek

  • Improve weed management and undertake revegetation along the creek

  • Protect cultural heritage sites and provide co-ordinated interpretation signage

  • Protect biodiversity, landscape and geomorphic values along the creek through planning scheme amendments

  • Protect stream frontages in the rural areas of Melton Shire

  • Plan for the development of a new regional park, west of Caroline Springs.

The Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy 2005 – 2030 was a collaborative project between the municipalities of Brimbank, Melton, Hobsons Bay and Wyndham, as well as the Department of Planning and Community Development, Melbourne Water and Parks Victoria.

The strategy is being implemented through the Kororoit Creek Catchment Coordination Project.

View the strategy

Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy Intro (PDF - 707 Kb)


Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy Part One - Introduction (PDF - 180 Kb)


Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy Part one (PDF - 2.4 Mb)


Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy Part two (PDF - 1.4 Mb)


Kororoit Creek Regional Strategy Appendix (PDF - 605 Kb)


Hard copies of the strategy are available to read at the main offices of Hobsons Bay City Council, Brimbank City Council, the Shire of Melton, Wyndham City Council, Melbourne Water and Parks Victoria.


For an overview of projects and agencies dealing with the Kororoit Creek, view the Waterways Planning webpage.

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