Parks Renewals and Upgrades

There are a variety of playgrounds currently within the City of Armadale and each year the City undertakes playground upgrades or renewals in line with the Parks Facility Strategy or the asset renewal strategy. The City closely monitors and maintains all of the playground equipment to make sure it is safe to play, per Australian Standards.

To ensure that park amenities and upgrades are equitably distributed throughout the City, the Parks Facility Strategy has been developed. The strategy guides park improvements to ensure a planned, equitable, and sustainable approach is applied. 

The distribution of District, Neighbourhood, and Local parks across the City allows us to maintain a balanced level of park quality and function across our suburbs. For example, a local park is designed for short-term use (with a smaller area of play and no amenities), whereas a district park will have opportunities to play all day and therefore may include toilets and barbeques.

When it is time to renew or upgrade a playground, we do our best to design it to be accessible, engaging and to cater to a wide range of abilities. The playgrounds must meet the needs of the children and caregivers who use them and fit within the allocated budget not just for the upgrade but ongoing maintenance as well. Our parks development team works hard to get creative and make sure we get the best solutions for the money available.

Parks under the management of the developer

Developers are responsible for maintaining newly finished parks and reserves inside these areas for two years as part of new developments. 

Using our Parks and Reserves

The City provides park facilities such as playgrounds, BBQs and picnic tables, which are available to all members of the community and cannot be reserved for a specific group. For members of the public using our parks and reserves;

• Bring a garbage bag to clean the site after you have used it.

• Please take responsibility for removing excess rubbish to avoid bin overflow.

• When utilising the BBQ facilities, please be courteous and clean the hotplate after each use

• We encourage park visitors to pick up after themselves

• To find out where you can exercise your dog, dog parks and dog-prohibited areas visit out 

  Dogs in Public Places

   page

• Park visitors are responsible for their own safety and welfare (including the safety and welfare of children under their supervision or control) at all times.

If you want to have a major gathering or event in one of the City's parks, please notify the city 9394 5000.

Antisocial Behaviour

If you are concerned about antisocial behavior in any public space, report the matter to Police on 131 444.

Parks Facility Strategy

The Park’s Facilities Strategy is intended to address the diverse community needs and expectations through the appropriate provision of space, form and infrastructure, ensuring parks and facilities are planned and allocated accordingly, whoever the provider, manager, or deliverer of the facility service might be.

This document provides an assessment framework to guide the provision of public open space and infrastructure by establishing a hierarchy of parks based on their size, function and infrastructure, founded on existing City of Armadale provision and benchmarked externally.

The purpose of the Parks Facilities Strategy is not only to provide information to developers operating within the City of Armadale but to guide and positively influence the City to improve and develop the City’s parklands in terms of the following:

• The nature of POS sites desired by the City

• The size and possible layout of local and district recreation and sporting spaces

• The functionality of POS with respect to local context

• The link between state and local POS expectations