L’Estrange Park
Mascot Oval
Sir Joseph Banks Park
At the corner of Sutherland and King Streets
Situated on the corner of O’Riordan and
Sir Joseph Banks Park comprises Foreshore
Mascot, L’Estrange Park is a major sporting
Coward Streets Mascot, the Oval is leased
Reserve and the Sir Joseph Banks Pleasure
venue for soccer, cricket, and rugby league
by the Mascot Juniors Rugby League Club,
Gardens. Foreshore Reserve is 28 hectares of
training. L’Estrange Park also features half
all enquires should be directed to the club.
bushland planted on reclaimed land, some 6
basketball courts. Toilets are available.
Mascot Oval also features half basketball
hectares being the original sand dunes.
A large playground is situated on the corner
courts. Parking is available off O’Riordan Street
The Reserve is interspersed with a number
of King and Sutherland Streets catering for
for training and matches.
of walking tracks which lead the walker through
children aged 5 years and up. Large fig and
Booralee Park
coral trees enclose the park which is also well
various landform and vegetation types from
exposed sand dunes to protected wetlands,
Accessed from Bay, Daniel or Jasmine Streets
formed around a network of ponds. The tracks
Botany, Booralee Park is a large area of
are mostly low grade and suitable for children
John Curtin Reserve
parkland used for junior and senior rugby
and the elderly.
A linear shaped reserve used for passive
league, soccer and cricket.
recreation, the park is located between
The park is ringed by mature Moreton Bay
throughout and it is the only bushland area set
residences and can be accessed from Robey
Fig trees and includes heritage buildings.
aside for public open space in the City of
Street or High Street (2 entrances), Mascot.
The park adjoins the Botany Big Splash
Botany Bay. There are two large BBQ shelters
Parking is available in High Street, gates open
swimming complex and a fenced playground
near the two car parks at Fremlin and Tupia
from 7am to sunset.
is available for toddlers. Booralee Park will
Streets. The car parks are open every day from
feature half basketball courts.
7am to sunset.
the park caters for 10-14 year olds and at the
Garnet Jackson Reserve
The Pleasure Gardens adjacent are decorative
eastern end of the park are grassy, shady
This reserve, accessed from Victoria Street
gardens that reflect the history of the area with
hollows and heavily planted areas enjoyed by
and Stephen Road, Botany is used for
a zoo playground featuring life size animals, a
office workers at lunchtime.
various active and passive sporting and leisure
mosaic depicting Bank's journey, decorative
Mascot Memorial Park
activities including a small playground.
flag terrace, Banksia garden and the central
Garnet Jackson Reserve will also feature half
oval running track.
basketball courts.
Toilets (including disabled) are available as well
screened from the surrounding busy roads.
Playground equipment at the western end of
Bounded by Botany Road, Coward and
Aloha Streets Mascot, the park is the City’s
premier formal garden and has fine displays of
Hensley Athletic Field
annual and perennial bedding plants in spiral
The Athletic Centre attracts a wide range of
shaped display beds which run the entire
users including the Randwick-Botany Harriers
length of one side of the park.
and patronage by the Randwick-Botany Little
The World War I memorial was restored in
Athletics Club as well as primary and high
1995 with two new granite ‘Remembrance
schools from all over the eastern suburbs for
Walls’ and a gravel circular pathway planted
athletics carnivals.
with Rosemary hedges and white carpet roses.
The field has a 400 metre 9 lane synthetic
The playground off Aloha Street provides
running track with areas for hurdles, shot put
activities for most age groups in a setting
and discus, long jump, high jump and so on.
surrounded by tropical type plants on grassy
The area includes a grandstand and kiosk and
mounds. Adjacent to this are two tennis courts
grassed areas for warm up. A soccer field is
(booked through Mutch Park), Mascot Senior
available in the winter season.
Citizens and Family Day Care Centre.
Contact Council for bookings on 9366 3666.
The park is frequently used for large cultural
and commemorative events as well as wedding
ceremonies.
Picnic areas and seating is scattered
as a parking bay for mini-buses transporting
the disabled or the elderly. The Gardens are the
site of the annual Botany Bay Gift which
attracts national and international competitors.
The Gardens can be accessed from Fremlin,
Tupia or Waratah Streets, Botany.
Botany Bay Golf Course
This Council golf course is a 9 hole coastal
course which lies between Foreshore Road and
Botany Road. Car parking is available from
Botany Road near Excell Street.
Hours and rates can be obtained by
telephoning 9316 4930.
City of
Botany Bay
City of Botany Bay, Administration Centre
141 Coward Street, MASCOT NSW 2020 Telephone: 9366 3666 Facsimile: 9366 3777 Email: [email protected]
Parks
P E O P L E
City of
Botany Bay
P L A C E S
The
Greening of
Botany Bay
‘Bring back the Trees’ is Botany Bay Council’s
motto, with around three million trees and
shrubs being planted in parks, reserves and
streets over the past two decades, as well as
the creation of many new parks and the
undertaking of bush regeneration projects.
Parks
PA R K S &
P L AY G R O U N D S
There are 65 parks in the Botany Bay Local
Government Area with Sir Joseph Banks Pleasure
Gardens unquestionably being the biggest
drawcard. The gardens were styled on old
photographs and engravings of the original
zoological and botanical gardens which existed
in the early 1800’s.
A $1.2 million renovation and landscaping of the
six hectare site for the bicentennial now offers life
size animal sculptures, a running track, bike track,
walking tracks, barbecue facilities and a duck filled
lake. All parks in the area give residents a choice
of both passive and active recreation, and often
include children’s playgrounds.
For more information on Parks and their facilities
contact the Parks Department on 9366 3666
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Sport
SPORTING
VENUES
Hensley Athletic Field is a regional facility which
features a running track of national competition
standard and a test sprinting track which provides
data on stride length, speed and other criteria to
analyse an athlete’s running form.
Also available as a soccer field in the winter
season. Enquiries 9366 3666.
Fields
P L AY I N G
FIELDS
Council offers a wide range of playing fields that
cater for sports such as Soccer, Rugby Union,
League and Cricket.
Enquiries for hiring these fields can be made on
Tuesday and Wednesday by phoning 9366 3505.
Botany Bay Golf Course is regarded as one of the
best public short courses in New South Wales and
hosts a number of successful competitions.
For information or bookings call 9316 4930.
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Splash
B O TA N Y B I G S P L A S H
SWIMMING COMPLEX
Three heated swimming pools (olympic, in-between
and toddlers) and a waterslide are set in
magnificently kept grounds which include a
children’s playground, barbecue facilities, umbrellas
and lazy lounges for patrons to relax.
A separate area with BBQ facilities and amenities
block can be hired for private functions.
General Opening times: October Labour Day
Weekend to the Easter Weekend from 6am to 7pm
during daylight saving.
Enquiries regarding use of facilities and charges,
can be made by phoning 9366 3666 during opening
seasons. For school carnivals, swimming lessons
or booking the function area, phone 9366 3505
(Tues - Wed).
Keep
Fit
TENNIS, SQUASH
& BASKETBALL
Six Tennis courts (4 artificial grass and 2 hard
courts) as well as 4 squash courts, (two of which
cater for Slam Jam basketball) are found at Mutch
Park, open 7 days a week. 1/2 - court basketball
courts are located throughout Botany Bay’s parks.
Bookings on 9366 3594 after midday Monday to
Friday or after 2pm Saturday and Sunday.
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Nature
N AT U R A L
ENVIRONMENT
Council is committed to the regeneration of the
natural areas that remain in the city with bush
regeneration programs at Sir Joseph Banks Park
and by supporting local school initiatives.
Preservation also extends to native animals with
recent works conducted to relocate a threatened
population of endangered frog species through the
Frog Focus Program.
Trees
STREETSCAPES,
TREES & GARDENS
Council actively supports programs to renew our
streets with colour and trees. Our tree program
nominates a particular species of tree for each street.
A Tree Preservation Order exists within the Botany
Bay Council area to safeguard the community’s tree
population and trees under this order cannot be
removed or trimmed without Council permission.
Council, with support from local industries, conducts
an annual Garden Competition.
Entry forms are letterboxed to all residents to
encourage entering.
Garden and Landscaping Advice from Council’s
Parks and Landscape staff is always available
on 9366 3666.
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IN PROFILE
Astrolabe Park
Mutch Park Squash and
Located on Isaac Smith Street, Daceyville
Tennis Centre
the park is open to vehicles from 7am to
Mutch Park, located between Wentworth
sunset with parking available in the grounds.
Avenue and Heffron Roads Pagewood, has
Features a half basketball court and a
6 tennis courts - 4 synthetic and 2 hard
walking/bike track and dog leash free area.
courts as well as 4 squash courts.
The park overlooks the Botany Wetlands.
The squash courts have been adapted for
David Phillips Field
“Slam Jam” 2 on 2 basketball.
Corner of Gwea and Banks Avenue
Daceyville, the field is run by the University of
New South Wales. Contact the University for
details on 9385 1000.
Rowland Park
Bookings: 9366 3594 - 12 noon to 11pm
Mon to Fri, 2pm to 8pm, weekends.
Answering machine prior to these times.
Parking is available off Wentworth Avenue
or Heffron Road.
Mutch Park itself is popular on weekends for
Located between Bunnerong Road,
BBQ's and picnics, facilities such as toilets
Prince Edward Circle and Banks Avenue
and a playground are available. The western
Daceyville, Rowland Park is a large sporting
park boundary has been planted with a
venue for local junior and senior rugby
dense cover of native bushland with earth
league and cricket and other activities such
walking tracks throughout.
as kite flying on weekends. Car parking is
available in Banks Avenue and Prince
Gaiarine Gardens
Edward Circle and there is a playground off
On the corner of Ocean and Bay Streets
Birdwood Avenue.
Pagewood, Gaiairine Gardens is dedicated
Bonnie Doon Golf Club
to Botany Bay’s sister-city Gaiarine in Italy.
Landscaping shows distinctive features of
Privately run 18 hole course. Banks Avenue,
Italian formal gardens as well as the untamed
Pagewood. Enquiries: 9349 2101.
Australian bush. There is a playground for
Jellicoe Park
5 to 9 year olds, a decorative pergola with
Accessed from Park Parade Pagewood,
grape vines which is regularly booked for
Jellicoe Park is a large park utilised for junior
wedding ceremonies, seating, herb gardens,
and senior grade soccer and cricket.
a decorative entranceway and memorial.
A pleasant walk or jog can be undertaken
Botany Big Splash Olympic Pool
around the park on the pathway that is lined
and Waterslide
by beautiful mature fig trees.
At the corner of Myrtle and Jasmine Streets
Eastlakes Reserve
Botany, the swimming pool complex features
The park can be accessed from Evans,
a heated 50 metre Olympic pool, 25 metre
Longworth or Barber Avenues. A large
training pool and toddlers wading pool.
undulating park at the hub of the Eastlakes
The toddlers pool features a shade cover
Shopping Centre. Playground equipment,
and the pools are set in extensive grassed
a rotunda, a half basketball court and an
grounds scattered with sun lounges and
award winning mosaic entitled “The Family”
umbrellas.
designed and constructed by local children
There is also a playground and waterslide.
is situated at a main entry to the park.
A large area is available for corporate
The Lakes Golf Club
picnics which has its own amenities with
Internationally renowned championship
kitchen and toilets. BBQ’s are available
18 hole private course. Enter at the end of
along with a kiosk. The pool is available for
King Street, Mascot. Enquiries: 9669 1311.
school carnivals and learn to swim programs
Eastlakes Golf Course
18 hole public golf course on the fringes of
the Botany Wetlands. Enter from Isaac Smith
Street, Daceyville. Enquiries: 9663 1374.
are offered.
General Opening times: October Labour Day
Weekend to the Easter Weekend from 6am
to 7pm during daylight saving.
Enquires: 9366 3590 during opening times,
otherwise Council’s Administration Centre
on 9366 3666. Parking and bicycle
racks available.
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