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Keep it GREEN, keep it OPEN, make it USEFUL
Council unveils landscape plan for Bathurst’s Centennial Park
After extensive consultation with interest groups and the general community, Bathurst Regional Council resolved on 16th May 2018 to adopt the Centennial Park Scoping Study Consultation Report. This report presented overall community feedback for the park development in three key areas:
Keep it green: vegetated existing vegetated landscape and its enhancement
Keep it open: the value of public space within an urban environment
Make it useful: improve the experience of the current space
Council engaged dsb Landscape Architects to prepare a concept landscape design for Centennial Park that reflected these community views. The design concept includes the following elements:
Consultation area
Concept landscape design improvement
Green
The retaining of all trees within the park with the exception of some that are in poor health
New tree planting to keep the tree lined pedestrian pathways and add Autumn colour
Improved irrigated grass open areas
Open
Keeping the existing shape of the park with intersecting pedestrian pathways
Design that lends the park to a ‘passive’ and an ‘active’ area
Renovation of a cricket pitch including levelling, irrigation and terraced grass seating/viewing areas
Curved Trellis with seating and climbers next to BBQ Area
Winding track with exercise stations
Heritage style smart sensor lighting along pedestrian pathways
Central Gazebo with seating
Heritage style furniture dotted around the park
Formalisation of the pedestrian pathway with heritage style red brick edges
Terraced stairs with incorporated disabled access
Relocated bus stop with improved access
A concept drawing and images for the concept plan is provided in the document library.
Council is seeking community feedback on the concept plan via this site or written submission to:
The General Manager, Bathurst Regional Council, 158 Russell Street or PMB 14, Bathurst NSW 2795
Feedback will close on Friday 11 January 2019 at 4pm
Keep it GREEN, keep it OPEN, make it USEFUL
Council unveils landscape plan for Bathurst’s Centennial Park
After extensive consultation with interest groups and the general community, Bathurst Regional Council resolved on 16th May 2018 to adopt the Centennial Park Scoping Study Consultation Report. This report presented overall community feedback for the park development in three key areas:
Keep it green: vegetated existing vegetated landscape and its enhancement
Keep it open: the value of public space within an urban environment
Make it useful: improve the experience of the current space
Council engaged dsb Landscape Architects to prepare a concept landscape design for Centennial Park that reflected these community views. The design concept includes the following elements:
Consultation area
Concept landscape design improvement
Green
The retaining of all trees within the park with the exception of some that are in poor health
New tree planting to keep the tree lined pedestrian pathways and add Autumn colour
Improved irrigated grass open areas
Open
Keeping the existing shape of the park with intersecting pedestrian pathways
Design that lends the park to a ‘passive’ and an ‘active’ area
Renovation of a cricket pitch including levelling, irrigation and terraced grass seating/viewing areas
Below is an opportunity to participate in the story telling element on Council’s “Your Say” which enables you to provide a more detailed response and allow Council the opportunity to capture the stories of how Centennial Park has been used in the past.
Thankyou for submitting your story.
CLOSED: This discussion has concluded.
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Centennial Park hold so many memories for me , Circus visits , Soccer practice with churches United (Joe Summerfield was our coach ),Primary school summer sport (cricket ) while attending South Bx school. It was also a great shortcut when walking down town from Rose street ! Plaese leave it as a park . Ian Klemm, Proud Ex south Bathurstian .
Centennial Park hold so many memories for me , Circus visits , Soccer practice with churches United (Joe Summerfield was our coach ),Primary school summer sport (cricket ) while attending South Bx school. It was also a great shortcut when walking down town from Rose street ! Plaese leave it as a park . Ian Klemm, Proud Ex south Bathurstian .
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1.When I was a young teenager there was a girl who owned a horse and she was riding it in centennial park.I knew her from school, she lived around the block in Rocket Street.She asked me if I wished to have a ride on her horse and I,wanting to impress her climbed on the beast.That's when the trouble began. I didn't know how to ride .I managed to get the horse to head off at a walk towards the centre of the park but the horse was spooked by someone with a kite with a long tail on it so... Continue reading
1.When I was a young teenager there was a girl who owned a horse and she was riding it in centennial park.I knew her from school, she lived around the block in Rocket Street.She asked me if I wished to have a ride on her horse and I,wanting to impress her climbed on the beast.That's when the trouble began. I didn't know how to ride .I managed to get the horse to head off at a walk towards the centre of the park but the horse was spooked by someone with a kite with a long tail on it so the horse balked and then it turned and bolted back to its owner, stopping and hurling me headfirst out of the saddle and over its shoulders.I landed very heavily without breaking my neck.
2.On a dirt track that dates back to the 1940s at least ,my cousins and my sister and I ,the Toomey family and the Fleming family and other children in the neighbourhood used to ride around and around the track in Centennial Park for hours on end.As it turns out my father and his family used to do the same thing on the same track with other children in the 1940s and 50s.?3.I learnt how to climb trees in Centennial Park .I reluctantly had to climb up to get something out, I don't remember if it was a boomerang or a soccer ball but dad to help by talking me up and then he calmly talked me back down again.There were magnificent trees in the park- so tall and the one across from our house had terrific bum stingers!4.When I was in primary school one winter (1972) I went for a bike ride one morning about 8am in the fog across the park before school .I came across a big cardboard box within the park opposite our house . I turned it over and it had two puppies in it, we kept the puppies.
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In about 1972, 45 years agoour family were awakened in the morning to the noises of an elephant tearing branches and leaves off trees and it was eating the long grass in the lane between our house and the neighbours in Seymour Street. We could view this elephant from our backyard.my mother father and sister all came out the back to witness the elephant in the lane with the keeper, using a stick trying to urge it backwards up the lane to the circus in the middle of Centennial Park Bathurst.Evidently in the elephant had a chain on one of... Continue reading
In about 1972, 45 years agoour family were awakened in the morning to the noises of an elephant tearing branches and leaves off trees and it was eating the long grass in the lane between our house and the neighbours in Seymour Street. We could view this elephant from our backyard.my mother father and sister all came out the back to witness the elephant in the lane with the keeper, using a stick trying to urge it backwards up the lane to the circus in the middle of Centennial Park Bathurst.Evidently in the elephant had a chain on one of its legs that had a peg attached and the elephant had pulled the peg out of the ground to gain its freedom to visit our place.
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I love Centennial Park and visit almost every day with my dogs. I get to see the park being used in many ways, by many different people. It would be such a shame to lose this park to more buildings, which Bathurst seems to have in abundance, unlike parkland. There are so many simple things that could be done to improve the park and increase its use and value, and to improve the health and well being of those that use it.
The dog lovers could do with an off-leash area or enclosed doggy play area. The kids could do... Continue reading
I love Centennial Park and visit almost every day with my dogs. I get to see the park being used in many ways, by many different people. It would be such a shame to lose this park to more buildings, which Bathurst seems to have in abundance, unlike parkland. There are so many simple things that could be done to improve the park and increase its use and value, and to improve the health and well being of those that use it.
The dog lovers could do with an off-leash area or enclosed doggy play area. The kids could do with more equipment and some shade. The adults and teenagers would benefit from an outdoor gym, and everyone could use a running/riding/walking track around the outside edge of the park. Paved walkways where the existing diagonal paths cut thought the park would make the journey easier. Bins on every corner would make for a cleaner park. Teams are still using the park to play cricket in the summer, so an open space should be retained for this and other sports and recreational activities. It would be lovely to see a picnic/BBQ area so people can socialise and eat together more comfortably too.
Above all, the world needs more trees, and Centennial Park has room for plenty more. But they need to be looked after. It would be amazing to see a tree-filled park, free from cat head prickles and with a few less ants nests. Maybe the council could allocate some resources and staff to plant and care for a range of native trees and plants that would attract birds and bees, and provide much-needed shade and beauty.
There are many people using Centennial Park presently, but I bet there would be many more if a few improvements were made. People need parks!
