The AILA
National Stewardship Awards
The Centennial and Moore Park trust, Sydney
The Park Improvement Program
The Centennial Park & Moore Park Trust, a NSW State Government organisation,
manages Centennial Parklands, one of Sydney’s most desirable open
space areas. Drawing over five million visits per annum, the Parklands
has a wide variety of users including tourists, community service participants,
schools, individuals and families undertaking passive and active recreation
activities.
In recognition of the intensity of use and to upgrade the
aging asset, Centennial Parklands has commenced a Park Improvement Plan.
The Park Improvement Plan is a NSW Treasury approved capital program
of $50M over a period of seven years and will result in significant improvements
across the Parklands.
The improvements will ensure a park system that
is sustainable, attractive, cost effective, safe and of an appropriately
high quality. To date
over $25M has been spent on over 60 projects ranging from minor services
upgrades and heritage stone restoration through to new toilet blocks
and major civil projects.
The Trust is custodian of the “people’s
park” and the
approach taken to evolve the parklands through the Park Improvement Plan
reflects this sense of stewardship. While numerous consultants
(many of them landscape architects) have been approached for specialist
advice, the Trust has developed the Park Improvement Plan with incredible
rigour and consultation.
For benchmark projects such as the upgrade
of Grand Drive, testing of the design, consultation with the community
and a thorough examination of the design through these processes has
occurred to deliver exceptional projects.
The Ponds Restoration is perhaps
the most extensive project undertaken by the Trust. It has taken
many stages, employed many consultants, been subjecting to much testing
and enjoyed great improvement.
The environmental benefits such
as improved water quality and increased habitat for fauna has been complimented
with social benefits such as improved access to the water and increased
awareness of the ponds.
centennial park web site: 
In 2006 the AILA awarded the inaugural Stewardship Awards
Australian National University (click here for more on the ANU site)
Gardens & Grounds Section
for their Landscape Maintenance Program
The Centennial and Moore Park trust, Sydney
for The Park Improvement Program
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