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
Improvements for a better cycling experience in South Perth
One of the state’s most popular cycling paths will see improvements as one of the priority actions of part of the City of South Perth and Town of Victoria Park Joint Bike Plan.
South Perth Foreshore shared path upgrade
The City will be upgrading the South Perth Esplanade cycle path from the intersection of Queen Street and South Perth Esplanade to the intersection of Mill Point Close and Mill Point Road.
New lights allow more time to play
Floodlighting installed at Challenger Reserve in Manning has allowed sports teams to train at night.
CCTV installation and path light upgrades at Karawara Park Greenways
CCTV and path light upgrades will be installed at Karawara Park Greenways on the week of 4 October 2021 and is expected to take approximately six to eight weeks to complete.
Redmond Stairs to be replaced
A new raised stairway will soon be constructed at Redmond Reserve in Salter Point to improve safety and access to the riverside nature space.
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.