Masterplan for Woodford Bay - Bicentennial Reserve

As part of the Playground Strategy Woodford Bay - Bicentennial Reserve playground is scheduled for an upgrade due to the age of the equipment and potential change in playground users over the years. A masterplan will be created to capture not just the grassy park area but adjacent carparking and small pocket of bushland.

Background

Woodford Bay - Bicentennial Reserve is located on the foreshore of Woodford Bay from the end of Woodford St. This is a landscaped historical park with filtered Woodford Bay views and pockets of bushland.

Lieutenant Ralph Clark first charted what would become known as Woodford Bay in 1790. One of the early white settlers in the area was Rupert Kirk, a former captain in the British Army Medical Corps. He emigrated to Australia in 1831 and took up a large land grant at Longueville, naming it Woodford Park after his ancestral home in Essex, England. Kirk’s property included a soap, candle and tobacco manufactory and was the area’s first industrial business.

The name of the reserve was amended in 1988 to commemorate Australia’s Bicentennial year. In 2004 a reconciliation ceremony recognising Cameraygal people and their interactions with first settlers was held.

Sydney Water access the park for maintenance of the Northern Suburbs Ocean Outfall Sewer (NSOOS), with the most recent works completed in early 2022.

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Consultation - Stage 2 closed midnight Monday 11th March 2024.