By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
MAJOR expansion works of the popular Bridgewater Family and Community Centre in Berwick have started.
The project will create an urgently needed extra playroom and outdoor play space, allowing for 60 extra kindergarten spaces.
An upgraded maternal-and-child-health space at the centre will also be built.
Enrolment figures showed a high demand for spots at the centre’s kindergarten and maternal-and-child-health service.
The works, funded by the state’s Interface Growth Fund, will also add a multi-purpose community room, reception area and cafe.
Narre Warren South MP Judith Graley said the centre was a “wonderful example of a multipurpose facility”.
“(It) not only provides kindergarten and maternal and child health services, but intergenerational community spaces that can be hired for a variety of purposes.”
She said the project was much needed for “our growing community”.
“It is fantastic news that local families will be able to go to their local kindergarten and their kids will get a great start to their education.”
