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
Mobile CCTV installed following suspected tree poisoning on South Perth foreshore
The City has installed its mobile CCTV unit near Lake Douglas on the South Perth foreshore after a young tall tree—believed to have been deliberately poisoned—was discovered. The affected tree is located near, but not part of, the six trees approved for removal by Council on 22 July 2025.
New feature lighting installed at Moresby Reserve
New feature uplighting has been installed at Moresby Reserve, Kensington as part of the City’s 2024/25 works program. The lights run on an automated schedule and will change colours throughout the year to mark key cultural and community events.
Coode Street foreshore reopens following emergency repairs
Emergency repairs were carried out at the Coode Street riverbank foreshore near the Boatshed Restaurant on Friday 25 July 2025, after heavy rainfall and overland runoff caused significant erosion.
A better place to play: Jan-Doo Park playground upgrade
The City of South Perth has transformed the Jan-Doo Park playground in Salter Point into a modern, inclusive and imaginative play space.
Weed Control Treatment Program 2025
The City will be commencing its annual Weed Control Treatment Program in July 2025 to control a range of weeds along the roads, kerbs, and road reserve footpaths to ensure these areas in the City remain at a high level of presentation and amenity for the community.
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.
