West End Community Association

The Great Indoors?
- Open Space Needed








The Issue

Parks and gardens

Where the city ratio for parkland is 4ha per 1000 people, West End currently has 1.7 ha per 1000. There are however no plans to add to existing parkland. The predicted shortfall of parkland is 25 hectares.

What WECA will promote

  • Acquisition of 25 hectares of open space needed
  • Investment in stakeholder solutions for Musgrave Park and Kurilpa Point
  • Walkability plan with greening of the streets connecting open space areas
  • Protect river access, visual and physical
  • No more development approvals until open space matches population needs
  • Each development application to provide the appropriate amount of public parkland to match the residents expected to be housed in that development (eg, if a residential development appropriate for 100 residents is proposed, then 0.4 hectares of public open space must be provided adjacent or nearby by the developer, in a form that is usable (eg sufficiently wide and long) by the local community and visitors)
  • Currently no provision of parks and gardens in proposed rezoned areas; Industrial area rezoning should be to (new) Residential and Parkland so that adequate public space is provided in the new developments
  • Reclaim Riverside Drive area as parkland with multiple use for walking, cycling, social activities and continued access
  • Support for pocket parks distributed throughout
  • Support for added public space provided in draft LAP

Sports and Recreational

  • Increased population requires increased investment in the appropriate location, range and scales of sport and recreation facilities (see shortfalls in Parks and Gardens above)
  • Integrated plan for sport and recreation facilities across the Peninsula

What YOU can do:

  1. Write to State Government/local MP requesting more parks and open space in West End
  2. Write to Council/local councillor urging inclusion of a significant proportion of open space in all developments approved for West End
  3. Write letters to newspapers
  4. Telephone talkback radio
  5. Get recreational organisations of which you are a member to write letters.
  6. Join and/or donate to WECA and participate in its activities
  7. Get others involved: numbers=power!