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

April 2024
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Update on the City's 2023/24 Water Budget

Public Notice 18 April 2024

As we navigate through Perth’s prolonged dry season, the City is currently managing a tight water budget. To keep in line with our water restrictions, we're implementing measures to care for verges, gardens and turfed areas.

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Play time resumes at Bill Grayden

News Update 16 April 2024

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.

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March 2024
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Pump track one step closer

News Update 28 March 2024

The City has secured $100,000 grant from Lotterywest as a contribution towards a pump track set to be built at George Burnett Park in Karawara.

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Bill Grayden Reserve - Stage Two upgrades

News Update 22 March 2024

The City is continuing with Stage Two of the upgrade of Bill Grayden Reserve in Como.

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November 2023

Lake Douglas footbridges closed

Public Notice 14 November 2023

The Lake Douglas footbridges have been assessed as being structurally compromised and therefore will remain closed for the safety of the public until further notice.

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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.