Campbelltown City Council has prepared a master plan for Hurley Park and applied for funding with the aim of restoring the site’s heritage significance and making the area a focus of community interest.
The master plan focuses on a range of elements, including the replacement of Hurley Park Hall with a new multi-purpose educational and community centre; a shared pathway network providing connectivity between sporting, play and heritage elements; interpretative / educational signage; and the restoration of the historic sandstone silt traps.
Hurley Park is located east of the Moore Oxley Bypass, within walking distance of the Campbelltown central business district.
The plan also outlines the introduction of a designated play area; palisade fencing to replace the existing chain-wire fencing around the heritage items; the reconstruction of the existing car park and additional landscaping.
Mayor of Campbelltown, Cr Paul Lake, said council had actively pursued funding opportunities for restoration of the heritage items and capital improvements to Hurley Park with the Crown Lands Public Reserve Management Fund Program.
“This program presents an ideal opportunity for council to seek grant funding to realise its long term vision for Hurley Park, which is one of our city’s most important heritage sites,” Cr Lake said.
“It is important that we not only focus on the restoration of the heritage items, but identify ways that we can promote the education and appreciation of these important public works to the broader public.
“Council is seeking to preserve the heritage significance of this site for future generations to enjoy, with plans to create an attractive recreational area that gives everyone an opportunity to share in our city’s unique heritage,” Cr Lake added.
The results of council’s detailed funding submission to the Crown Lands Public Reserve Management Fund Program are expected to be announced in early July 2015.
Anything has got to be better than what we have now – a carpark/sex park/drag exchange park/arguing park/anything goes because there’s no signs, no lights at night, no lines on the car park etc.
So anything that the council can do will be a bonus and yes I think we should preserve that historic site.
My only concern is the building that is going to be there constructed there could bring more people from the wrong side of tracks to do more damage, but as far as preserving the historic site yes, I think it should be done.