Sydney's Northend Park (Louisa Gardens)
Nestled down at the very end of DesBarres Street (in Sydney’s Northend) is a neglected and uninviting community space. It is a space, however, that has incredible potential to become the vibrant, useful and beautiful green space that it once was. A space people, both young and young at heart, would be proud to call their own.
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The Northend Park Project (NPP) aspires to revitalize this space with new trees, benches, a well-lit (and safe to use) running track and an updated, safe and accessible playground. This is just the start, the exact form will be decided by public input and built during a good old fashioned "barn raising" where the community will come together and instal the equipment in just one day. When finished this space will be something the community can say "we built this".
Playgrounds and parks are integral to the health of neighbourhoods and whole communities. It is more important than ever that our children are encouraged to spend time outside engaged in physical activity and it is our role as parents, adults and community members to ensure that they have safe and inviting spaces in which to do so.
It is equally important that we create public spaces that can benefit and be used by all members of the community and municipality for a host of purposes - sports games, community events, family picnics, evening walks, meeting fellow neighbours and residents, and so on. We think the The Northend Park (Louisa Gardens) is one such space.
