Community 3004 Inc.
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The Fawkner Park Neighbourhood is the community within a short walk of the park's six pathways located in the heart of the park; taking in St Kilda Road, Queens Road and Punt Road, across postcodes 3004, 3141 and 3182.
More than 90% of us live in apartments and we are one of Melbourne's fastest-growing neighbourhoods. The park is our common ground and our shared backyard: whichever tower you call home, the pathways lead here.
Open weekdays from 9am - 4pm
NEWS... from 1 July 2026 - Bookings for evenings and weekends available now
In the heart of Fawkner Park sits the Fawkner Park Community Centre, known to many as the South Yarra Senior Citizens Community Centre (SYSCC) and already home to our monthly Games Night.
We are working with the City of Melbourne on a twelve-month pilot to open the centre up as a place for the whole neighbourhood, workshops, conversations, gatherings and quiet hours alike. It is a simple idea: a building the public already owns, opened up as a table the whole neighbourhood can share.
Our community would dearly value a local library: a warm, welcoming place to read, study, gather, and connect across every age group.
Currently, our nearest options are Toorak Library (1.2 km), Prahran Library (1.5 km), and South Melbourne Library (2.5 km). While these seem close on a map, reaching them requires navigating heavily trafficked arterial roads like Queens Road, St Kilda Road, and Punt Road. These multi-lane thoroughfares create significant physical barriers for pedestrians, making existing libraries difficult and unsafe to access on foot, especially for families, older residents, and those living around Lakeside or St Kilda Road North.
We are working constructively with both levels of government to bring a library closer to home.
Most residents' closest layer of community is their own building, and every building faces the same puzzles. Nextdoor Nexus is our owners corporation network and know-how program, connecting OC committees, residents and building managers across the neighbourhood's towers.
Members share practical knowledge, caring for shared spaces, greening podiums and balconies, running building events, navigating the questions every committee meets, so no building has to solve a problem alone. Know-how, like community, grows when it is shared. If you sit on an OC committee or manage a building, you are warmly invited in.
Urban Bloom is going to be our biodiversity and community greening program, sustainability for ourselves, for each other, and for every living thing that shares our neighbourhood. We support planting and habitat projects in and around the park and our towers, and Fawkner Park Friends is registering as a community greening participant under the City of Melbourne's Garden City Guidelines and City of Port Phillip.
Please get in contact if you're interested in gardening!
We have compiled and verified the neighbourhood's apartment development record building by building: since 2015, around 1,300 apartments completed, a further 1,900 in the pipeline, some 3,200 homes delivered or under way. At inner-city household sizes, which is thousands of new residents settling into a neighbourhood with very few shared places to meet.
The growth has been welcome and well planned. Our case is simply that the community fabric, the places, the canopy, the common ground, should now grow with it.