A regional sports facility could be built on a former tip in Albion which closed 25 years ago.
Brimbank council has awarded a contract to rehabilitate the Sunshine Energy Park, on Ballarat Road, over the next three years.
While the site’s future use hasn’t been finalised, it was first flagged as a potential sports facility back in 2012.
The council says it is too early in the process to say which sporting clubs could find a home there.
At a recent council meeting director infrastructure and environment Neil Whiteside said some initial master planning found the site could host a regional sports facility.
When chair of administrators John Watson sought to clarify the shape of the site, Mr Whiteside said plans for the final contours had taken initial master planning into account.
About 468,000 cubic metres of compacted clean fill will be placed across the site over the next three years at a cost of $2.1 million.
The park operated as a landfill until 1990. It was leased out to a series of companies which generated electricity through methane from the landfill before the council took over the land in 2011.
It generates low decreasing levels of methane, the council says.
The council is cautious not to repeat the story of Brookland Greens Estate in Cranbourne where some houses built next to a recently closed landfill were found to have methane inside the cavities.
News Limited reported in 2012 that results from a second phase of environmental tests cleared the 53 hectare Albion site of contamination concerns.
Mr Whiteside said it was too early to comment on the park’s future use without an official master plan.
“Council’s focus at this point in time is on ensuring the site is managed and rehabilitated so that future uses of the site can be considered,” he said.
“The development of a master plan to determine the future use of the site will occur in the future.”
