Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network CITY OF PARRAMATTA Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network Parks and outdoor recreation facilities support our community to live healthy, active lives. Our parks are places where people can access formal and informal recreation opportunities, relax, exercise, play and enjoy our natural heritage. These facilities create opportunities for people to make connections with one another, to enjoy being in nature and to escape from the built environment, especially in a growing city. They also provide habitat for wildlife, improve air quality and help protect from the community from the impacts of climate change. 480 City of Parramatta Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network Community Infrastructure Strategy 2019 481 Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network About Council's Park Classification Neighbourhood Parks Local Parks District Parks Serves the immediate Serves a neighbourhood. Serves a catchment of neighbourhood surrounding the Provides elements or facilities multiple suburbs and multiple site. Located in residential areas. suitable for passive enjoyment communities, of less than one Provides limited recreation value of outdoors and nature, spaces local government area. Supports as sites are unembellished. to gather and interact and/or to diverse uses and provides a encourage individual and group- range of recreation activities Typical Components: based active recreation. Located for individuals, small and large Small land parcel with within residential areas. groups. Destinational by nature, no facilities district parks create a hub of Typical Components: Typical Facilities: Pedestrian activity, supporting community Small land parcel with links, seating or natural shade gatherings and extended stays some facilities for picnic, play, and other Typical Size: <0.3ha Typical Facilities: 1 or more activities. embellishments, e.g. circuit Typical Components: pathways play space and picnic Larger land parcel with facilities multiple facilities Typical Size: >0.3ha – 2.0ha Typical Facilities: 5 or more embellishments, e.g. toilets and carparking. Typical Size: >2ha – 5ha 482 City of Parramatta Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network Regional Parks Civic Serves an area greater than Formal public spaces within highly urban settings, such as the LGA. Are destinations that squares or plazas. These prominent public spaces are popular attract long-stay visitors from event venues and experience high levels of visitation by throughout the metropolitan residents as well as workers and visitors. area. They accommodate a high Typical Components: CBD location level of diverse facilities and significant environmental features Typical Facilities: Hard landscaped elements, monuments, that offer unique recreation event facilities, formal gardens. opportunities Typical size: Variable Natural Bushland reserves primarily provide conservation and ecological functions. Support limited recreational infrastructure, such as walking tracks and trails, provide opportunities for interaction with nature. Typical Components: Bushland Typical Facilities: Tracks and trails, seating Typical size: Variable Heritage Cemeteries and parks with high heritage significance. Support a range of low-impact passive recreational opportunities for individuals and groups. Typical components: Monuments and memorials, historic buildings, heritage landscapes Typical Facilities: Seatings, pathways Typical size: Variable Community Infrastructure Strategy 2019 483 Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network About Council's Outdoor Recreation Classification YOUTH RECREATION Facilities and spaces that are suitable for young people (13+) to gather, participate in formal and informal recreation and to relax together. Facilities and spaces suitable for youth recreation are also used by members of the broader community. Youth recreation includes outdoor recreation elements like skate/bike facilities, youth parkour, study spaces, hard courts and informal fields. ACTIVE RECREATION Facilities and spaces that support individual and group-based active recreation, such as an informal sporting activity. They cater for a range of ages and abilities and provide outdoor recreation elements like tennis courts, cricket practice nets, hard courts and informal fields. COMMUNITY RECREATION Facilities and spaces that support a range of actvities for individuals and groups of various sizes. These spaces are gathering places and support extended visits through providing outdoor recreation elements like picnic and barbeque facilities, event spaces and large open grassed areas. 484 City of Parramatta Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network FITNESS AND EXERCISE Facilities and spaces that support exercise and fitness opportunities. These are free, accessible and provide outdoor recreation elements like outdoor excercise equipment, exercise/boot camp spaces and circuit paths. TRAIL AND PATH BASED RECREATION Facilities and spaces that support walking, cycling and running in public open space, natural areas and community destinations. These provide outdoor recreation elements like circuit paths, cycleways, bushwalking tracks and bike and scooter tracks. OFF-LEASH ANIMAL EXCERCISE Facilities and spaces that provide access to off-leash exercise areas for dogs and other animals. These are designated dog off-leash areas that can include perimeter fencing and agility equipment. Community Infrastructure Strategy 2019 485 Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network Understanding the distribution of outdoor recreation facilities within Council’s parks Outdoor Recreation Recreation Classification Element(s) NEIGHBOURHOOD N/A N/A (These spaces are unembellished) PARK Youth Skate/Bike facilties, Hard Courts and Recreation Informal Fields Active Tennis Courts, Cricket Practice Nets, Hard Recreation Courts and Informal Fields Fitness and Outdoor Exercise Equipment, Exercise/ Exercise Spaces Boot Camp Spaces and Circuit Paths LOCAL PARK Community Picnic and BBQ Facilities, Event Spaces Recreaion Areas and Large Open Grassed Areas Trail and Path Circuit Paths, Cycleways, Bike/Scooter Tracks Based Recreation and Bushwalking Tracks Off-Leash Fenced and Unfenced Dog Off-Leash Areas Animal Areas 486 City of Parramatta Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network Outdoor Recreation Recreation Classification Element(s) Youth Skate/Bike facilties, Hard Courts Recreation and Informal Fields Active Tennis Courts, Cricket Practice Nets, Recreation Hard Courts and Informal Fields Outdoor Exercise Equipment, Exercise/ Fitness and Boot Camp Spaces, Circuit Paths and Exercise Spaces Bushwalking Tracks DISTRICT PARK Community Picnic and BBQ Facilities, Event Spaces, Recreaion Areas Toilets and Large Open Grassed Areas Trail and Path Circuit Paths, Cycleways and Bike/ Based Recreation Scooter Tracks Off-Leash Fenced and Unfenced Dog Off-Leash Areas Animal Areas Community Picnic and BBQ Facilities, Event Spaces, Recreaion Areas Toilets and Large Open Grassed Areas NATURAL Trail and Path Circuit Paths, Cycleways and Bike/ Based Recreation Scooter Tracks, Natural Area Swimming Off-Leash Fenced and Unfenced Dog Off-Leash Areas CIVIC Animal Areas Trail and Path Circuit Paths, Cycleways and Bike/ Based Recreation Scooter Tracks HERITAGE Off-Leash Fenced and Unfenced Dog Off-Leash Areas Animal Areas Community Infrastructure Strategy 2019 487 Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network PARKS & OUTDOOR RECREATION NETWORK Current What is provided Situation now? 7 3 134 Local Parks 66 128 Neighbourhood Parks 2 District Parks 134 20 20 360 2 Regional Council Parks 66 Natural Heritage 128 7 3 Civic KEY: Local Parks Neighbourhood Parks District Parks Regional Natural Heritage Civic City of Parramatta Council (Council) Together, these parks form a City of Parramatta also has highly plays a significant role in the network that caters for: valued heritage parks including 4 provision of parks and outdoor cemeteries and 3 state heritage • Informal recreation recreation facilities throughout the listed parks. opportunities Local Government Area (LGA). 66 natural parks are located within • Formal recreation City of Parramatta. These parks Council has 360 parks: opportunities include diverse natural elements • 134 local Natural, heritage and civic parks and interesting, unique and • 128 neighbourhood form approximately 1/5 of our parks protected flora and fauna. • 20 district and outdoor recreation network. Within our LGA there are two • 66 natural City of Parramatta has 3 unique regional parks that are owned and • 3 civic civic parks including Prince Alfred managed by others. These include • 7 heritage Park, St John's Park (Centenary Parramatta Park and Sydney Square) and the Parramatta River • 2 regional Olympic Park. Foreshore. 488 City of Parramatta Parks & Outdoor Recreation Network City of Parramatta 2016: Parks classification by catchment Catchment Catchment Catchment Catchment Catchment Catchment Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 Neighbourhood 38 34 13 22 17 4 128 % 38.0% 36.6% 28.3% 32.8% 42.5% 30.8% 35.7% Local 40 33 16 23 15 7 134 % 40.0% 35.5% 34.8% 34.3% 37.5% 53.8% 37.3% District 5 5 2 3 4 1 20 % 5.0% 5.4% 4.3% 4.5% 10.0% 7.7% 5.6% Natural 17 21 15 8 4 1 66 % 17.0% 22.6% 32.6% 11.9% 10.0% 7.7% 18.4% Civic 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 % 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8% Heritage 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 % 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 10.4% 0.0% 0.0% 1.9% Regional 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 % 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.5% 0.0% 1.5% 0.3% 100 93 46 67 40 14 365 Total 28% 26% 13% 19% 11% 4% 100% There are more than 30 public These natural elements are highly natural, civic and heritage parks schools within City of Parramatta valued and influence the provision