With nearly 4,000 online votes and 182 written submissions, your feedback played a key role in shaping the outcome.
The revised plan focuses on improving how the space is used, while keeping the features the community values most. Several changes have been made to better reflect what we heard during consultation.
- Retain as many of the existing trees and date palms as possible
- Additional trees, date palms and planting beds included
- Border upgrade on Bent Street and the oval fencing has been removed
- Preserve current car parking spaces has been prioritised
- Relocation and a new scale for the stage
- Relocation of the playground
- Relocate the toilet block at the end of its useful life
- Retain the vampire jet and log in the park
- Proposed addition of a zero-depth water feature
- Investigation and implementation of drainage
- More covered eating areas
- The flagpole will be relocated with the addition of an Aboriginal flag
- Wynter and Farquhar Street entries to have interpretive sculptures to represent our Aboriginal heritage and connection to Country.
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Next steps
The revised master plan will be placed on public exhibition for 25 days.
Following the completion of the exhibition period, Council will consider additional feedback and make any changes required to the master plan. The master plan will be put forward to a future Council meeting for adoption.
Once adopted, the Wingham Central Park master plan will guide the future development of the park and provide opportunities to apply for funding.
Project background
The Wingham Central Park master plan
will guide the future development of Wingham Central Park.
The draft master plan was developed using feedback gained from the community over several years, most recently the feedback from the Wingham CBD consultation which took place from 2020-2023.
We have undertaken a heritage impact assessment on the draft master plan given the importance of the heritage of Central Park.
The master plan will assist us to seek funding opportunities to realise its elements. Implementation of the master plan, and timeframes for delivery will be dependent on receiving grant funding for the various elements.
The initial draft master plan was placed on public exhibition in 2024 where feedback received from the community during this time has informed the revised master plan
Park history
Wingham’s Central Park is the sporting, social and cultural hub of the town.
It was surveyed in 1843 and dedicated in 1884 as a public recreation reserve.
It is an outstandingly rare and historically important village green in a traditional English style plan around which the town was planned and has grown, and is the centre of the most significant heritage buildings in the town.
Cricket has been played on the park since its inception, with it also used as a rugby league ground for many years. In fact an incident in a rugby union game in Wingham in 1907 was one of the catalysts of rugby league starting in Australia in 1908. A plaque that tells this story is located near the Vampire Jet.
The park has been the site of many events over its life, including rodeos, circuses, picnics, sporting carnivals, music festivals, fireworks and markets.
It was a central place for enlisting during World War 1 and a place of celebration at the conclusion of the First and Second World Wars.
The park is listed as a local heritage item and is within a heritage conservation area.
The heritage of the park and its historical significance is a reason why the draft master plan has been reviewed. The full report can be found below.
Community response
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