Western Australian Sites
Millet Community Park Development
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Landscape Architect: Parks and Reserves Business Unit, City of Stirling
LOCATION: Huntriss Road, Innaloo
Innaloo has been undergoing substantial revitalisation through subdivision and redevelopment of larger single lots. This has increased residential densities, where there is limited private open space. These people therefore rely more heavily on public open space for recreational needs and social connectivity.
Millet Park is central to this area and located within a permeable network of predominately grid-orientated streets. The reserve is on a number of bus routes and on a bike route. The park is approximately 40 years old and is 38,100m2. Major works carried out in the past comprise of the installation of automatic irrigation by bore and establishment of lawn, the construction of a large sump, toilet block and a playground installation. A number of trees in the park are remnants from before the park was created – many of these have adapted poorly to the change to open irrigated lawn conditions and a number required remedial improvement works.
Generally, before the re-design, the park presented a large, bland, open space with very few positive characteristics.
In response to the changed demographic and increased housing density the park needed to have a range of spaces, active and contemplative, to appeal to this varied community with the associated support facilities. The design also addressed the objectives for sustainable design in regard to resource use, walkability, multi-use and the environment.
The design was divided into 3 stages with stage 3 planned for completion in 2008/09. Stage 1 consisted of playground installation, picnic areas, paved areas, planting and tree remediation. Bus lane removal and remediation, BBQ, seating, drinking fountains, passive recreation areas, landscape feature elements, paths and bio-link planting were implemented in Stage 2.
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April 2008
