Recreation facilities are not just a fancy name for parks in 2020. They also offer a lot more activities than council parks used to back in the day.
A new feature of recreation facilities that’s becoming popular is a pump track. The names comes from the activity itself, with pumping – generating momentum by up and down body movement – instead of pedalling or pushing to get around the track.
There’s only a couple of these pump tracks around the metropolitan area, but the third is coming right here to South Western Sydney.
The Schoeffel Park complex under construction at Horningsea Park will include a pump track designed for people to skate, scoot, rollerblade or ride an asphalt circuit without pedalling.
Werriwa MP Anne Stanley, who helped Liverpool Council receive $1.4 million in funding under the Federal Government’s local road and community infrastructure program, says the facility will be the first of its kind in Liverpool.
“I congratulate Liverpool City Council for thinking innovatively about recreational spaces,’’ Ms Stanley said.
“I am pleased Schoeffel Park will soon be ready for the community to enjoy. The Liverpool area is such a beautiful part of the world, and facilities that encourage the local community to get out, spend time with loved ones and increase their exercise should be supported,”
Liverpool City Councillor, Nathan Hagarty, said this new facility will have a great impact for the community for years to come.
“This is another great council community facility for families and lovers of the great outdoors.
“I’m proud to serve on a council that has the community’s needs front and centre.
“Schoeffel Park adds to the long list of community focused projects that council has undertaken in the last four years, from Casula Parklands to Voyager Point Community Centre to Cirillo Reserve at Middleton Grange,” he said.
My name is Philip Schoeffel, the Grandson of Alfred Emile Schoeffel who owned and ran Horningsea Park along with my family as a Dairy Farm from the mid 1920s to well after the Second World War .
I would dearly like to be part of this park development in Liverpool in honour and in the name of my Family in whatever capacity that may be required. I only found out that this park was to be named after my forebears by accident googling the Schoeffel name.
I attended the opening of Schoeffel Pump track on Saturday 18th September 2022, almost 2 years after it was initially planned. Several dignitaries including Councillors, the Mayor, Federal Member for Werriwa Anne Stanley and State Member for Liverpool, MP Paul Lynch attended.
However, I’m disappointed that there was no thank you or acknowledgment of MP Anne Stanley’s efforts in obtaining the $1.4 million that was granted to it by the Federal Government for the Werriwa area.
Sad too that the ribbon cutting was carried out by the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, when IMHO it should have been MP Anne Stanley, basically as a thank you for her efforts, but no, it was given to those that had nothing to do with the project.
I will try to have the history of the naming of the park added to relevant signage within the area.