See how Bayside's sporting pavilions and community facilities are getting a female make-over in this episode of Community Designs.

Here’s one for the girls! Do you remember having to endure the boys changing room at the local clubhouse? Well in this month’s Community Designs host Monique visits Hurlingham Park, and talks to Hede Architecture’s, Peter Hede, former Mayor and Councillor of Bayside City Felicity Frederico, Youth Girls Coach Rebecca and one of the team’s player, Jess to hear their thoughts on the new pavilions and facilities to Bayside.

What’s interesting about this community is that 80% of their sporting facilities were built pre-1960, an era where women’s sport was not catered for but now through design and this community is leveling the playing field in terms of girls sports and smashing ‘the grass ceiling’.

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Community Designs is a weekly C31 program focusing on spaces and places created for specific purposes within our local councils and municipalities. With interviews with the architects, designers and community stakeholders behind the projects. C31 is Victoria’s not-for-profit community television service providing locally-based entertainment, education and information. Transmitted from Mount Dandenong, C31 provides access and representation to the many diverse communities within Victoria giving voices and raising issues which are not present in mainstream television.

C31 broadcast over 90 new locally-made programs every week. These programs are produced by community television volunteers and independent television makers.