Maylands Lakes

On behalf of the City’s consultants, Josh Byrne & Associates, you are invited to attend an upcoming engagement session in place of the City's next quarterly community forum.

Across the evening, you will receive updates on some of the projects underway as part of implementing the Maylands Lakes Masterplan.

The focus of the session will be to hear our consultants share their process for designing an overall landscape plan for the area.

You will then be invited to provide input to help inform the consultants’ final landscape plan.

No RSVPs are required to attend this session.

EVENING SESSION

Time: 5.30pm (for a 6pm start) until 8pm
Date: Thursday 4 December 2025
Location: Maylands Sport and Recreation Club, 50 Clarkson Road, Maylands

ONSITE POP-UP

An additional drop-in session will be held onsite at Maylands Lakes for those unable to attend the evening session.

Time: 8am – 10am

Date: Saturday 6 December 2025

Location: Brickworks Gazebo (between the Brickworks Drying Sheds and Brickworks Lake)

ONLINE SURVEY

Community input will be collected via a survey on Engage Bayswater. For those unable to attend the session or pop-up, supporting information will be provided online.

For information about the Masterplan, please visit engage.bayswater.wa.gov.au/maylands-lakes

We thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to improve the environmental conditions at Maylands Lakes.

Following the most recent Maylands Lakes Community Forum held on Thursday 28 August 2025, the City has, in collaboration with its consultants, developed an updated implementation timeline.

The estimated timeline will become a living document that is updated as actions are confirmed.

View the Estimated Implementation Timeline below or by clicking the first link in the Documents panel on the right-hand side of this page.

• Estimated Implementation Timeline (PDF, 36.4KB)

The City is working to restore and enhance the vegetated area around Lake Brearley as part of water quality improvement works.

Works will take place over October and November and will involve replacing non-native vegetation (approximately 200 invasive woody weeds/tree species spanning Casuarina cunninghamii, Melaleuca quinquenervia and Callistemon) with 2,500 native tubestock.

Prior to the invasive vegetation being removed, it will be treated to reduce the likelihood of regrowth

A Community Planting Day will take place from 9am on Sunday 26 October where community members are invited to help install the native species.

Reticulation will be added in November to support the establishment of the new trees over the next two years.

During these works, a temporary fence and signage will be in place to ensure community safety with pedestrian management.

This week, the City is installing small water-level data loggers within Maylands Lakes to expand our current water monitoring program.

These devices will record water levels, so we can better understand how water flows throughout the lakes system.

Next month, the City will install a further three groundwater monitoring bores around the lakes to provide additional data on how the lakes interact with groundwater.

Locations for these bores have been selected in consultation with the City's consultant Alluvium. Works will involve a small drill rig on site.

Both of these actions will provide data that will help inform future design outcomes, so we can manage the lakes effectively into the future.

If you have any questions, contact the City's Environment Manager on 9272 0660.

At its April 2025 meeting, Council endorsed the Maylands Lakes Environmental Restoration Concept Report, with $2.4 million allocated to implement Phase 1 actions in the City's 2025/26 Budget.

As part of this, you may notice a range of activities taking place around the Lakes and foreshore areas over the coming months. These works are part of detailed investigations and planning to guide future restoration and design.

What you might see happening:

• Sediment sampling carried out by boats and specialist contractors
• Ground surveys by licensed surveyors
• Bathymetric surveys using boats and aquatic drones
• Onsite supplier meetings associated with Phoslock trials and detailed design
• A landscape audit, including review of structures and jetties, to inform landscape design.

Due to high water levels, the City has temporarily closed access to the footpath near Tourer Court as a precautionary measure. Access will reopen when the water level drops.

On Thursday 28 August, the City held its fifth Maylands Lakes Community Forum at the Maylands Sport and Recreation Club.

The report and slides can be found below and in the Documents section to the right-hand side of this page.

• Report
• Slides

To stay up to date, residents are encouraged to subscribe to this project by clicking the Subscribe button at the top-right of the page

The City has treated Lake Brearley and Lake Bungana with a higher dosage of larvicide this week, as per our Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority off-label permit. This is expected to assist in addressing a recent increase in midge numbers.

The City continues to undertake treatments and raking on a 14-day cycle.

The next Maylands Lakes Community Forum will be held on Thursday 28 August 2025.

During the forum, the City will provide an update on actions taken since the last forum.

Time: 5.30pm (for a 6pm start) until 7.30pm

Date: Thursday 28 August 2025

Location: Maylands Sport and Recreation Club, 50 Clarkson Rd, Maylands

RSVP: By 5pm, Friday 15 August 2025 to Executive Assistant Infrastructure and Assets, Siiri Clausnitzer, via siiri.clausnitzer@bayswater.wa.gov.au or 9272 0622

At its 29 April 2025 meeting, Council endorsed the Maylands Lakes Environmental Restoration Concept Report and authorised an estimated timeline for implementing Phase 1 actions be published by 30 June 2025.

The estimated Phase 1 Implementation Timeline can be viewed at the Maylands Lakes Environmental Restoration Masterplan project page: engage.bayswater.wa.gov.au/maylands-lakes-masterplan-development

On Thursday 15 May, the City held its fourth Maylands Lakes Community Forum at the Maylands Sport and Recreation Club.

The report and slides can be found below and in the Documents section to the right-hand side of this page.

• Report
• Slides

To stay up to date, residents are encouraged to subscribe to this project by clicking the Subscribe button at the top-right of the page.