Kelvin was a third-generation Rai Valley man and remembered the pub opening. His mother had worked there. “We saw the Rai Valley Progress League pitch to the council for years about a village green . and we said, ‘Why can’t we chop that car park in half? It has too many parks’, Tania said. “It would be nice to help give the community a heart.”
SUPPLIED
Design plans show the tavern plans to turn half of its car park into a village green for Rai Valley, with new public toilets. Designers proposed keeping 29 of the car parks – two of which were disabled spaces – and replacing the rest with a 570-square-metre village green, a playground made of log structures, and an outdoor seating area and tavern courtyard.