Carine Community Parkland Upgrade

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Open date
31 March 2025
Closing date
05 May 2025

Last update date: 11 April 2025

The City is seeking your feedback on the concept plan for Carine Community Parkland Upgrade.

The City places a high value on play opportunities for children and is committed to providing a range of quality, well-maintained play equipment for children to enjoy.

With the current Okely Rd playground at the end of its serviceable life, the City is seeking feedback on the concept plan. The concept plans have been developed in response to the key priorities identified during the 2023 community consultation. Key elements of the community parkland plan include:

New playground equipment: Featuring a large corkscrew slide similar to the current one, and an elevated rope tunnel through the adjacent tree canopy.
Accessible play items: Including a basket swing, wheelchair-accessible seesaw, sensory play items and communication boards.
Games: Including snakes and ladders, battleship and four in a row, to help foster intergenerational play.
Basketball and netball area: Expanding the basketball area to half court and adding a netball goal shooting area.
Shelters: Replacing existing shelters with a large shelter for group gatherings, and two regular picnic shelters.
Seating and picnic tables: Providing numerous options, including seating under the existing plane trees.

To meet the City's Senior Landscape Architect and learn more about the Carine Community Parkland upgrade please join us:

Date: Thursday 10 April 2025
Time: 5.30pm - 6.15pm
Location: Carine Regional Open Space playground.

The submissions received during this consultation will help finalise the plans for Carine Community Parkland. Residents that participate in the consultation will be kept informed of the consultation outcomes and all project updates will be shared on this project page.

Project timeline

March 2023

Community consultation round one

31 March 2025 - 5 May 2025

Community Concept Plan Consultation

Thursday 10 April

Community drop-in session

Carine Community Parkland plan

Carine Community Parkland playground detail

Get involved

If you would like to get involved, please submit your feedback on the concept plan before 5.00pm on Monday 5 May.

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The City undertook community consultation in 2023 to gather feedback on the existing playground, and better understand priorities for improvements.

During the initial consultation, we heard the presence of dogs within the playground was a community concern. To address this, the City has included design interventions aimed to reduce dogs from entering the playground. These include:

Relocating main reserve pedestrian paths away from the playground
Reconfiguring paths to encourage walkers to follow them, instead of shortcutting through the playspace area
Encircling the playground with a patterned concrete path to delineate the playspace zone
Ensuring drink fountains adjacent to the playground don’t have dog bowls, and installing a drink fountain with a dog bowl at the main reserve path intersection.

The 2023 Carine Community Parkland Upgrade consultation report is available below.

The main combination structure in the playground is 24 years old and at the end of its asset life. To bring the area up to the current standard provided by the City, it is proposed to redesign the playground and support infrastructure.

The upgrade will not extend to changes to the toilet facility provision. The artwork on the external façade of the toilet block will be upgraded as a part of the community parkland upgrade project.

As part of the consultation process, comments received help the City finalise the plans for the community parkland upgrade.

Comments are collated, sorted and considered against the City’s policies and resources. The community parkland plan will then be finalised.