Penrith City Council continues to prioritise play

Penrith City Council has completed replacing the old playspaces in Dorothy Radford Reserve, St Clair and Henry Brigden Park with modern playspaces featuring new equipment for different ages and abilities. 

Penrith Mayor Todd Carney said Council has upgraded 34 playspaces over the past five years and advised “we’ve improved playspaces across the City and built new facilities like Regatta Park and the Gipps Street Recreation Precinct to give families and children plenty of options to get outside and play.

“But we’ve still got more to come, with work underway to upgrade Ridge Park in Oxley Park and another nine playspace projects starting this year.”

The Dororthy Radford Reserve and Henry Brigden Park playspace upgrades were funded through the NSW Government’s Western Sydney Infrastructure Grants Program. Council received a $7.56 million grant to upgrade 21 playspace sites across the local government area. 

The playspaces were identified through Council’s Sport and Recreation Strategy, which is a 15-year road map for the future provision of sport, play, recreation and open space facilities across our City.

Find out more at: yoursaypenrith.com.au/projectplay 

Image. Member for Penrith Karen McKeown and Penrith Mayor Todd Carney visiting the new playspace at Henry Bridgen Park, Penrith, with children from Spunky Monkeys Early Learning Centre.