Climate plan to force Melbourne's seaside kinder from its bayside home

Since 2012, the lucky children of Lady Forster Kindergarten have learned and played just metres from Elwood Beach.

Lady Foster Kindergarten director Allison
 Prasser and pre-school kids at Elwood beach. 

But the kinder now faces the loss of its bayside home as state government policies preparing Melbourne’s coast for the deepening climate crisis begin to bite.

Foreshores right around Port Phillip Bay are set to change, with the state cracking down on any structures or land users that are not “marine-dependant” in the expectation that rising sea levels are set to endanger property and even lives in the coming years.

Lady Forster, which was put into its present foreshore home as a temporary measure in 2012, has been told that its must find a new location when its lease expires in 2023.

Read the story from The Age by Noel Towell - “Climate plan to force Melbourne's seaside kinder from its bayside home.”