THE strain on parents of infants will be eased with a new kindergarten to be built in Yarraville.

The Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust has applied to build a kindergarten on the corner of Bayview Road and Montague Street alongside the church.

The kindergarten is proposed to provide two sessions a day for 47 children at a time.

Sheoak ward councillor Martin Zakharov supported more kindergarten options for Yarraville.

"Every year the [need for] child care and three- and four-year-old kinder continues to escalate. We have to ... meet demand."

Twelve objections to the application included concerns about increased traffic,

street safety, lack of parking and noise.

One resident said he already had difficulty with traffic from people attending the church, and feared it would get worse with a kindergarten.

"Four to five nights a week we can't park in our street. More often than not my driveway is blocked and I can't get in," he said.

There are 10 on-street parking bays along the site on Bayview Road and Montague Street.

About five vehicles belonging to kindergarten staff will be parked during operating hours of 9am-4.30pm, with families using the other bays four times a day for pick-up and drop-off.

A kindergarten which previously operated on the site closed in 1995.

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