Following community consultation, Council has adopted a long-term Public Open Space Strategy 2021-2031, which will guide and inform future decision-making consistent with best practice in the sector.
Fundamentally, public open space is provided to foster an active lifestyle and encourages positive health and wellbeing outcomes for the community.
These include opportunities and settings for informal play and physical activity, relaxation and social interaction, and formal structured sporting activities.
Under the new public open space strategy, localised suburb-by-suburb public open space plans identifying amenity improvements and addressing deficiencies will be progressed as a matter of priority.
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