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

November 2025

Lighting upgrades at Neil McDougall Park

News Update 3 November 2025

On 10 November, the City will install new electrical lighting along the pedestrian path at Neil McDougall Park, Como. Work is expected to be completed by early December

Parks and Reserve works
September 2025
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Notification of upcoming soil sampling works – George Burnett Park

Public Notice 22 September 2025

On 1-3 October, soil sampling will be taking place at 16 locations across George Burnett Park, Karawara - the former Manning Tip site.

Parks and Reserve works
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Have your say: Hope Avenue Reserve play space upgrade

News Update 2 September 2025

Have your say on the Hope Avenue Reserve play space upgrade to help us choose the play elements and features you’d like to see there.

Expressions of Interest Parks and Reserve works

Stage two works begin on Coode Street accessible toilet

News Update 1 September 2025

Stage two works are underway on the new Changing Places accessible public toilet at the Coode Street Foreshore. The project includes construction of the facility, internal fit-out and landscaping, with temporary fencing and signage now in place around the site.

Parks and Reserve works South Perth Foreshore
August 2025
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New riverside seating installed at Sir James Mitchell Park

News Update 18 August 2025

Five new benches have been installed along the foreshore at Sir James Mitchell Park.

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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.