Attwood Child Care Centre and Kindergarten (ACCCK) received a facilities upgrades grant from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development to extend the service to add on a new Kindergarten room to cater for up to 22 children, this was to allow us to comply with the universal access requirements which took effect in 2014.

We are currently a 45 place service which operates long day care and a four year old kindergarten program, the kindergarten program is currently integrated into the long day care room.

ACCCK is also a work base centre for the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) and as such have a priority placement agreement with the centre. We are situated on DEPI grounds, which is Crown land.

The extension would allow ACCCK to provide a separate four year old kindergarten program, which would then able us to offer the extra hours required whilst also being able to provide more four year old kindergarten places to the community.

A planning permit was submitted, the Melbourne Airport objected to our permit as we are situated under the flight path, they were concerned that if we increased the capacity of the centre then this could potentially lead to an increase in complaints made from families and staff of the noise from the airport traffic as the airport traffic will increase over the next 20 years. They appeared to be negotiable and asked us tooutsource an acoustics assessment report so we could amend or building plans to ensure the new building would meet the Australian Noise Exposure Forecast (ANEF) as the land falls within the Melbourne Airport Environs Overlay NO.1 (MAEO1) control as well as meeting the Australian standards to comply with AS2021 for noise attenuation. The report stated yes the building would be able to meet with the standards, therefore we assumed Melbourne Airport would accept these conditions.