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Found 95 Articles from 06/05/2024 | Clear Filters
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24 JANUARY 2023
Hello Wistaria Gardens - Discover its stories
Visitors to Parramatta’s Wistaria Gardens can uncover its fascinating history while enjoying the blooms as new, pop-up interactive signs bring the Gardens to life.
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13 SEPTEMBER 2022
Local voices to shape future of Greater Sydney Parklands
Community members passionate about Sydney’s parklands can now have a stronger voice in their future management.
Greater Sydney Parklands is calling for feedback on its Draft Consultation and Engagement Framework and for Sydneysiders to nominate for a spot on one of five new community trustee boards. -
02 SEPTEMBER 2022
Celebrate spring at 'September in Wistaria Gardens'
Roll out the picnic blanket and enjoy live music in Parramatta’s much-loved Wistaria Gardens this September when the Gardens’ annual spring display returns to bloom.
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08 JULY 2022
Parramatta Park sporting fields to undergo facelift
More western Sydney kids will be able to kick a footy, shoot some hoops or bowl an over thanks to new upgrades to Parramatta Park’s junior sporting fields.
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23 MAY 2022
Parramatta Park conservation wins heritage award
Parramatta Park’s Boer War Memorial has won the ‘Continuing Tradition’ award at this year’s National Trust (NSW) Heritage Awards.
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01 APRIL 2022
Wistaria Gardens to bloom in Parramatta Park
Western Sydney’s historic two-hectare Wistaria Gardens will become part of Parramatta Park after the NSW Parliament passed legislation to recognise the Greater Sydney Parklands Trust (GSPT).
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02 DECEMBER 2021
New sprinklers trial to cool flying foxes
While Sydneysiders flock to beaches and swimming pools to escape the heat this summer, Parramatta’s grey-headed flying-fox colony can stay exactly where they are.
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03 AUGUST 2021
$1 million upgrade for Parramatta Park's historical sites
Sydneysiders will be able to experience some of Australia’s most historically significant sites well into the future following a number of recent heritage conservation works at Parramatta Park.
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14 JULY 2021
Parramatta park’s 40,000-year-old Burramatta trail restored
An Aboriginal cultural planting program at Parramatta Park, which has restored Burramatta Landscape Trail, has been reopened and will share 40,000 years of Indigenous traditional knowledge with park visitors.
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11 DECEMBER 2020
Parklands fly the flag for International Excellence
Two iconic Sydney parks have scooped international Green Flag Awards for excellence as quality open spaces – a major accolade for the recently formed Greater Sydney Parklands.
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16 OCTOBER 2020
National AILA Award wins for Parramatta Park
Parramatta Park Trust and its consultants have celebrated two prestigious AILA Landscape Architecture Awards wins for Paperbark Playground and ‘Your Parramatta Park 2030 - Conservation Management Plan and Plan of Management’ at the 2020 National Landscape Architecture Awards.
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22 JULY 2020
$2.5M closer to Parramatta Park’s People’s Loop after successful trial
Parramatta Park Trust is one step closer to making walking and cycling easier for people in World Heritage-listed Parramatta Park, having received $2. 5M to support improvements to West Domain, including new car parking close to key park destinations and facilities.