AdvertisementNationalVictoriaCity life Residents shocked at plan to demolish suburban homes for pocket parks Rachael Ward August 6, 2026 — 1:24pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Until she learnt of her local council’s quiet plan to buy and demolish her house to replace it with a park. The size of the proposed reserves are three or four residential blocks that connect with current parkland or council properties. Eddie Jim “I understand there has to be pocket parks within certain residential areas, but there are existing pocket parks within our area,” she said. “In a housing crisis, pulling down well-appointed and very liveable properties for open space makes little logical sense.”