Parks and Reserves Works
The City aims to provide and maintain high quality facilities for the local and wider community that support amenity, sport, recreation and biodiversity outcomes.
The City’s parks and reserves are being progressively hydro-zoned and eco-zoned to conserve water. The City is provided an allocation by the Department of Water and has to operate within that allocation while still maintaining parks and reserves for the community to use and enjoy.
Hydro-zoning is the practice of grouping types of vegetation into categories with similar water requirements to enable more efficient and responsible use of irrigation water. When designing and managing POS, the different water needs of turf, lawns, trees and low water-use plants are taken into account. Eco-zoning is the conversion of existing turfed areas into native garden areas. Ultimately this allows for minimal water to support an area that once sustained turf, saving large volumes of water.
The City also facilitates effective management of the Swan and Canning River foreshores and improves the amenity value and sustainable uses of all our public open spaces and foreshores.
Current parks and reserves works
News Listings
Unveiling the Canning Bridge to Curtin University Bike Link
The newly completed Canning Bridge to Curtin University Bike Link introduces safe active streets, upgraded shared paths, and a pocket park for those who walk, wheel or ride each day.
City commits to replacing one of the Lake Douglas bridges
The City of South Perth has approved funding of $350k to replace one of the Lake Douglas bridges in the 2024/2025 Annual Budget.
Bill Grayden makeover unveiled
The City of South Perth has completed the $640,000 upgrade of Bill Grayden Reserve in Como, enhancing multiple play spaces and adding new features such as a tunnel slide and native tree planting, creating a vibrant community hub.
Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer detected at Richardson Reserve in South Perth
The Department of Primary Industry & Regional Development (DPIRD) has alerted the City of South Perth to a positive detection of the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB) in four Coral Tree’s (Erythrina x sykesii) within Richardson Reserve in South Perth.
Play time resumes at Bill Grayden
Installation of the new play space at Bill Grayden Reserve is now complete, with families already enjoying the new equipment and improved landscaping at the reserve.
Scheduled capital works
Parks and reserves capital work projects for the 2022/23 financial year are listed below.
View the Capital Works map for the 2022/23 financial year.
- Axford Barker Reserve playground replacement, Como
- Park Furniture Replacement Program, City-wide
- Isabella/Craigie Reserve playground replacement, Manning
- Parks - Irrigation Replacement Program, City-wide
- Waterford Triangle laneway, Waterford
- McDougall Park Lake WSUD, Como
- Bill Grayden Reserve playground replacement, Como
- Hurlingham Playground replacement, South Perth
- Coolidge Reserve upgrade, Como
- Godwin Avenue sump retrofit, Manning
- Cricket facilities upgrade
- Richardson Park cricket practice nets replacement, South Perth
- Hensman Park court resurfacing, South Perth
- South Perth Foreshore river wall
- Mindeerup tactile surface indicators, South Perth
- Osprey nesting pole, South Perth Foreshore
- James Miller Oval floodlighting, Manning
- Bill Grayden Reserve floodlighting, Como.
