Hospitals 21 February 2025

Local students help bring central green space to life at new Footscray Hospital

Students from Footscray Primary School rolled up their sleeves to help with planting in the central green space at the new hospital.

More than 320 trees and 55,000 plants will transform the site into a welcoming green space for patients, staff and the community.

All are grown by Yarra View Nursery, a local social disability enterprise who provide high quality, meaningful employment and training for adults living with a disability.

The Wurundjeri Land Council helped guide the plant selections with silver wattles selected for their cultural connection to the Footscray area.

The landscape design was inspired by the Maribyrnong River and the local landscape.

With every tree planted, these students are taking part in providing a healing and more vibrant space for their community.

Gallery

Four children in hi-vis vests and hard hats looking at a map. An adult is holding the map and pointing at it

Students from Footscray Primary School learning about the project

Two children wearing hi-vis vests and hard hats, digging holes in a planting bed with shovels

Students from Footscray Primary School digging holes in preparation for planting

Two children and a man digging holes and removing plants from plastic pots, ready to plant

Students from Footscray Primary School planting

Close up of a child filling in dirt around a green plant that has just been placed in the ground

A Footscray Primary School student planting

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Construction progress

The new Footscray Hospital is in its final year of major construction, with work focusing on the internal fit-out, installation of services, and landscaping.

More than six million hours of work have been completed by around 1,000 workers on the site to date.

Intersection works are now underway at the Ballarat Road and Geelong Road entrances of the hospital.

Major construction of the new Footscray Hospital is expected to be completed in late 2025.

Learn more about the new Footscray Hospital.